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{{Use Indian English|date=December 2018}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2013}}
{{Infobox Officeholder
|name = R. Lalthantluanga
|image = R. Lalthantluanga VC MZU.jpg
|imagesize =
|caption = R. Lalthantluanga inaugurates Zawlbuk, a boys' hostel at [[Pachhunga University College]] on 16 May 2016
|order = 3rd
|office = Vice chancellor of Mizoram University
|term_start = 19 May 2011
|term_end = 18 May 2016
|predecessor = [[A.N. Rai]]
|successor =
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1947|3|1|df=y}}
|birth_place = North Serzawl, Mizoram
|death_date =
|death_place =
|alma_mater =[[Pune University]]
|profession =[[Professor]]
|}}
'''R. Lalthantluanga''' (born 1 March 1947) is a retired professor of [[biochemistry]] and the former [[Chancellor (education)|vice chancellor]] of [[Mizoram University]], [[India]]. He is the first [[Mizo people|Mizo]] to become vice chancellor of [[List of universities in India|Indian universities]], and he is the third vice chancellor of Mizoram University. He is the former head, professor and founding faculty of the Department of Biochemistry, Dean of School of Life Sciences, and [[pro-vice-chancellor]] of [[North Eastern Hill University]].

==Early life and career==
R. Lalthantluanga was born in North Serzawl in Mizoram. He completed his BSc (honours) from [[Guwahati University]] in 1966, and [[Master of Science]] in 1968 and [[Ph.D.]] in 1973 from [[Pune University]]. He entered the faculty of [[Ahmednagar College]] in 1968, and then joined the Department of Zoology, [[North Eastern Hill University]], in 1974. He became the founder of the Department of Biochemistry of NEHU in 1980 and became its first faculty as a reader. He became full professor in 1984. He had served as the Head of the department, Dean of School of Life Sciences, and also as the pro-vice-chancellor at the Mizoram Campus of NEHU from 1990 to 2001.<ref>{{cite web| author= Sharan RN|title= Dr. R. Lalthantluanga Professor|date= 2005| url= http://www.incredb.org/cv/R_N_Sharan.pdf |access-date= 2013-07-28}}</ref>

He has been an editor of ''Science Vision'' since 2009.<ref>{{cite web| author=Science Vision |title=Editorial Board |date=2012 | url= http://www.sciencevision.org/subcription/subcription.html |work= sciencevision.org |access-date= 2013-07-28}}</ref>

===Vice chancellor of Mizoram University===

In May 2011, R Lalthantluang was selected to succeed Prof AN Rai as the vice chancellor of Mizoram University, and became the first Mizo vice chancellor in India.<ref>{{cite web| author=India Education Review |title= Prof R. Lalthantluanga becomes Mizoram University's VC|date=17 May 2011 | url= http://www.indiaeducationreview.com/news/prof-r-lalthantluanga-becomes-mizoram-university%E2%80%99s-vc-0 |work= indiaeducationreview.com |access-date= 2013-07-28}}</ref>

===Research===

R. Lalthantluanga started his research career on the study of [[haemoglobin]] of [[horses]], [[cows]] and [[insects]].<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Lalthantluanga R, Gulati JM, Barnabas J |title= Hemoglobin genetics in bovines and equines |journal= Indian J Biochem Biophys |volume=12 |issue= 1 | pages= 51–57 |year=1975 |pmid=1205489 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Lalthantluanga R, Braunitzer G |title= Hemoglobins, XXIX. Sequence analysis of a dimeric hemoglobin (erythrocruorin), CTT-X, of ''Chironomus thummi thummi'' (Diptera) |journal= Biochimie |volume=61 |issue=5–6 | pages= 725–731 |year= 1975 |pmid= 497257|doi= 10.1016/s0300-9084(79)80173-x}}</ref> He had contributed to a groundbreaking study on [[high-altitude adaptation]] among the [[Himalayas|Himalayan]] [[yak]].<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Lalthantluanga R, Braunitzer G |title= Amino acid sequence of the fetal chain of yak haemoglobin |journal= Journal of Biosciences |volume=12 |issue= 2| pages= 87–91 |year= 1987 |doi=10.1007/BF02702957|s2cid= 40098921 }}</ref>

==Awards and honours==

*[[German Academic Exchange Service|Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD)]] Post Doctoral Fellowship
*[[Max Planck Society]] Post Doctoral Fellowship
*''SaraswatiPutra'' the highest honour of International Council of CCLP Worldwide on 18 January 2012<ref>{{cite web| author=CCLP Worldwide |title= Rolls of Honour: 1. Hon.Vice Chancellor Mr.Prof.R. Lalthantluanga |date= 2012| url= http://cclpworldwide.com/rolls.htm |work= cclpworldwide.com |access-date= 2013-07-28}}</ref>

==References==

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==External links==
*[http://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/searchr.php?id=21896 Profile at VIDWAN Expert database]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150929183422/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110517/jsp/northeast/story_13988893.jsp Telegraph Telegraph]

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