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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Kavita Shah''' is (born 6 November 1968) an Indian environmental biotechnologist and [[professor]] at the Institute of Environmental and Sustainable Development, [[Banaras Hindu University]] [[Sabbatical|''on lien'']].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://thewire.in/79131/meet-the-only-woman-to-ever-hold-the-position-of-a-director-at-bhu/|title=The Environmental Biotechnologist Who Is the Only Woman Director at BHU|last=Dogra|first=Aashima|website=thewire.in|language=en-GB|access-date=2017-03-04}}</ref> She currently serves as [[vice-chancellor]] of [[Siddharth University]] from July 2024 for a term of three years and becomes the first woman to hold the post.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Siddharthnagar News: सिद्धार्थ विवि की कुलपति बनीं प्रो. कविता शाह |url=https://www.amarujala.com/uttar-pradesh/siddharthnagar/prof-became-the-vice-chancellor-of-siddharth-university-kavita-shah-siddharthnagar-news-c-227-1-sdn1003-120222-2024-07-05 |access-date=2024-07-13 |website=Amar Ujala |language=hi}}</ref> She is one of the six directors and the only woman director of [[Banaras Hindu University]] (BHU). She is known for her role in the area of Environmental Biotechnology, Health and water Resource Management.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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She has completed her MSc, B.Ed., Ph.D. and some post-docs and then she taught at NEHU and completed three more post-docs there. She started as a Zoology student in the women's college at BHU named Mahila Mahavidyalaya (MMV).<ref name=":0" /> Following stints in Japan, Geneva and [[North Eastern Hill University]] in Shillong, she found herself coming back as a teacher at BHU.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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A major area of work also include the development of biosensors using immobilized plant enzymes ([[Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering|Biotechnology and Bio process Engineering]], 13, 632–638, 2008) and studies pertaining to inhibitors of HIV protease (In Silico Biology, 8–033, 2008), HIV integrase (Archives of Virology 2014) and N. meningitides vaccine constructs ([[Indian Journal of Biotechnology]], 2010) in silico using bioinformatics tools.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=http://www.bhu.ac.in/iesd/Final_CVs/Professors/Kavita_Shah_CV.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170304193646/http://www.bhu.ac.in/iesd/Final_CVs/Professors/Kavita_Shah_CV.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 4, 2017|title=Kavita Shah}}</ref><br />
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* Biotechnology Career Advancement [http://www.dbtindia.nic.in/schemes-2/women-scientist-scheme-2/ link] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200221222339/http://www.dbtindia.nic.in/schemes-2/women-scientist-scheme-2 |date=2020-02-21 }}<br />
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