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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Virendra Nath Pandey
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1947|10|8}}
| birth_place = [[Uttar Pradesh]], India
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| nationality = [[Indian nationality|Indian]]
| fields = {{ublist | [[Molecular virologist]] | [[Enzymology]] }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University]] | Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited | [[Bhabha Atomic Research Center]] | [[Awadh University]] | [[New Jersey Medical School]] }}
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[Banaras Hindu University]] | [[Bhabha Atomic Research Center]] | [[University of Mumbai]] }}
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| known_for = Studies on DNA recombinase enzyme complex
| awards = 1991 [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]]
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'''Virendra Nath Pandey''' (born 1947) is an Indian geneticist, [[molecular virologist]] and [[Enzymology|enzymologist]], known for his studies on the [[DNA]] [[recombinase]] [[enzyme]] complex.<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=344 | title=Brief Profile of the Awardee | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | access-date=28 September 2016}}</ref> He is an associate professor at the [[New Jersey Medical School]] of the [[Rutgers University]] and a former scientist at [[Bhabha Atomic Research Center]].<ref name="Overview - New Jersey Medical School">{{cite web | url=http://njms.rutgers.edu/resource_locator/find_people/profile.cfm?mbmid=pandey#tab-bio | title=Overview - New Jersey Medical School | publisher=New Jersey Medical School | date=2016 | access-date=5 October 2016}}</ref> The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1991, for his contributions to biological sciences.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx | title=View Bhatnagar Awardees | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | access-date=19 September 2016}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Virendra Nath Pandey, after completing his graduate (Biology and Agricultural Sciences) and master's (Mycology and Plant Pathology) degrees in 1966 and 1968 respectively from [[Banaras Hindu University]], started his career as a lecturer at Ranjit Singh Memorial PG College of [[Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University]] (formerly Agra University), where he worked till 1970.<ref name="Pandey.cvm Pandey. Virendra Nath on New Jersey Medical School">{{cite web | url=http://njms.rutgers.edu/unmanaged/CV/pandey.pdf | title=Pandey.cvm Pandey. Virendra Nath on New Jersey Medical School | publisher=New Jersey Medical School | date=2016 | access-date=5 October 2016}}</ref> His next move was to Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited, [[Rishikesh]] as a microbiologist and in 1973, he joined [[Bhabha Atomic Research Centre]] as an assistant professor, simultaneously pursuing his doctoral studies to secure his PhD from [[Mumbai University]] in 1985. He served BARC till 1996 when he moved to [[New Jersey Medical School]] of [[Rutgers University]] as an assistant professor where he is a [[Professors in the United States#Tenured and tenure-track positions|tenured associate professor]] at the department of microbiology, biochemistry and molecular genetics.<ref name="Overview - New Jersey Medical School" />

Pandey's researches are focused on [[genetic recombination]] and his studies on young rats revealed ''the presence of a DNA [[recombinase]] enzyme complex associated with their [[thymic]] [[nuclear matrix]]''.<ref name="Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners">{{cite web | url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=1999 | access-date=28 September 2016 | pages=33}}</ref> He proposed that this presence in the [[prolymphocytes]] influences the rearrangement and recombination of genes in vertebrates. His researches are documented in a number of articles; [[ResearchGate]], an online repository of scientific papers, has listed 91 of them.<ref name="Virendra Pandey on ResearchGate">{{cite web | url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Virendra_Pandey3/publications | title=Virendra Pandey on ResearchGate | date=2016 | access-date=5 October 2016}}</ref> He has attended several international seminars, chaired many of them and has been an invited speaker at several others; ''Reverse Transcription Session of Retroviral Meeting'' of [[Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory]] (2003), ''International Conference on Drug Discovery'' of [[Central Drug Research Institute]] (2006), 36th Annual Meeting of Control Release Society, Copenhagen (2009) and ''Virology, Immunology and Epidemiology of Hepatitis Viruses - International Conference on Virology'' at Baltimore (2011) are some of the notable ones.<ref name="Pandey.cvm Pandey. Virendra Nath on New Jersey Medical School" /> He held the Biotechnology Associateship of the [[Department of Biotechnology]] in 1991 and the [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], one of the highest Indian science awards the same year.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees" />

== See also ==
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* [[Genetic recombination]]
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{{portal|India|Biology}}

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{cite web | url=http://researchindex.net/author/Pandey,_V.N./5370656126184448c53071a9 | title=Pandey, V.N. on Research Index | publisher=Research Index | work=Article listing | date=2016 | access-date=5 October 2016}}

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