Dr. Seyed E. Hasnain, (d.o.b. April 13, 1954), obtained his Ph.D from JNU (1980) , New Delhi and worked briefly at the University of Delhi before leaving for a N ational Cancer Institute Post Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Alberta, Canada, where he was subsequently awarded the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Me dical Research Fellow Award to work at the Department of Medicine. He then spent a couple of years at the Texas A & M University, USA and returned to India in 1 987 to work as a Staff Scientist at the National Institute of Immunology (NII). Dr. Hasnain, who was a Visiting Scientist at Oxford was appointed as the first D irector of CDFD in February 1999. He has recently been appointed by His Excellen cy, the President of India as the Vice-Chancellor of University of Hyderabad.

An Honorary Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, he has been nominated by the Prime Minister of India for the Membership of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (SAC-PM), the highest decision and policy making body for Science & Technology for the country. A member of the Science and Engineering Research Coouncil (SERC) of the DST, he is the recipient of several national and international awards which include Dr Nitya Anand Endowment Lecture for Biomedical Research, Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Award, Goyal Award, G D Birla Award, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, Golden Jubilee Biotechnology Fellowship Award, Ranbaxy Research Award and several others. Dr Hasnain is an elected Fellow of all the major Science Academies in the country namely, Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, India, Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sciences, Hyderabad, etc. He was one of the youngest to be elected to the Fellowship of the prestigious Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), a Foreign Academy based in Trieste, Italy.

Dr Hasnain has been associated with the Editorial Board of several peer reviewed journals in India and abroad. He has also been associated with the Board of Governors/Scientific Advisory Committee/Academic Council of several National Institutes. Some of these are Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), University of Hyderabad, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, Bose Insitute, Calcutta, L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, Tata Memorial Centre (TMC) and Cancer Research Institute (CRI), Mumbai, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, Sir Dorabji Tata Centre for Tropical Diseases, Bangalore, Centre for Molecular Medicine, JNU, New Delhi, Central JALMA Research Institute of Leprosy, Agra, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB), Kolkata, Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow, Centre for Human Genetics, IISc, Bangalore, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, Delhi, Indian Immunologicals Limited (IIL), Hyderabad. He is also Member of Biotechnology Advisory Committees of Government of Andhra Pradesh, Government of Gujarat and Government of Kerela.

The research interests of his laboratory include understanding the mechanism of baculovirus very late gene transcription and apoptosis, and pathogenesis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Dr. Hasnain has authored more than 160 original research papers and several book chapters. He has about a dozen patents filed in India and abroad.

AWARDS

DR NITYA ANAND ENDOWMENT LECTURE for Biomedical Research, INSA, 2005

SHRI OM PRAKASH BHASIN AWARD for Science & Technology, Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation for Science & Technology, 2004

GOYAL AWARD for Life Sciences, Kurukshetra University, 2004

G D BIRLA AWARD for Scientific Research, KK Birla Foundation, 2001

RANBAXY RESEARCH AWARD for Basic Medical Sciences, 1997

GOLDEN JUBILEE BIOTECHNOLOGY FELLOWSHIP AWARD, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, 1997

SHANTI SWARUP BHATNAGAR PRIZE in Biological Sciences-1995

PROFESSOR UMA KANT SINHA MEMORIAL AWARD, Indian Science Congress Association, Baroda, Jan 1992

THE YMSA-88 YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD for Biological Sciences, awarded jointly by the MAAS and TWAS (Trieste, Italy), 1990

The WOOD-WHELAN Fellowship Award administered by the International Union of Biochemistry (IUB), 1989

WHO Visiting Scientist, NERC Institute of Virology, Oxford, 1989

DR K V RAO SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY ENDOWMENT ORATION AWARD, Dr K V Rao Scientific Society, 2002

Indian Academy of Neurology-Oration, New Delhi, 2001

RUSTOM RANJI ORATION AWARD, Hyderabad Eye Foundation, 2001

PLATINUM JUBILEE LECTURE AWARD, Indian Science Congress Association, Chennai, 1999

NII Award for "OUTSTANDING SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENT-1995¿

NII Award for "OUTSTANDING BASIC RESEARCH OF THE YEAR", 1991

IUB-Travel Award, International Congress of Biochemistry, Czechoslovakia, July, 1988

Fellow, Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, Alberta, Canada, 1983-85


PATENTS

• A method for enhancing foreign gene expression in baculovirus expression vector system. Inventors: Hasnain, S.E., Venkaiah, B. and Habib, S. Application # 112/DEL/97 filed on January 15, 1997.

• The AcMNPV baculovirus p35 gene protects against oxidative stress-induced apoptosis. Inventors: Hasnain, S.E., Sah, N.K., Kaur, T., Athar, M. and Pathak, N. Application # 2213/DEL/97 filed on July 8, 1997.

• Genetic markers for human meningioma. Inventors: Hasnain, S.E., Dil Afroze, Sinha, S., Sarkar, C. and Mohapatra. Application # 1564/DEL/98 filed on July 6, 1998.

• A method of an early identification of multi-drug resistance in mycobacterium tuberculosis and an appropriate therapy thereof. Inventors: Hasnain, S.E, Siddiqui, N., Pathak, N. and Katoch, V.M. Application # 426/MAS/2002 filed on June 5, 2002

• A method for enhancing foreign gene expression in baculovirus expression vector system. Inventors: Hasnain, S.E., Venkaiah, B. and Habib, S. US Patent # 5,965,393 (1999)

• Recombinant multivalent malarial vaccine against Plasmodium falciparum. Inventors: Altaf A. Lal, Ya Ping Shi and Hasnain, S.E. US Patent PCT application based in US # 60/097,703

• Recombinant multivalent malarial vaccine against Plasmodium falciparum. Inventors: Altaf A. Lal, Ya Ping Shi and Hasnain, S.E. Indian National phase of PCT/US99/18869

• Recombinant multivalent malarial vaccine against Plasmodium falciparum. Inventors: Altaf A. Lal, Ya Ping Shi and Hasnain, S.E. Japanese Patent Application # 2000-566433