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'''Anil Grover''' (born 15 August 1958) is an Indian molecular biologist, professor and the head of the Department of Plant Molecular Biology at the [[University of Delhi]]. He also heads the ''Anil Grover Lab'' of the department, serving as the principal investigator. Known for his research in the field of [[molecular biology]] of plants, Grover is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies namely the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]], the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] and the [[Indian National Science Academy]] as well as the [[National Academy of Agricultural Sciences]]. The [[Department of Biotechnology]] of the Government of India awarded him the [[National Bioscience Award for Career Development]], one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences in 2002.<ref name="Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development">{{Cite web |url=http://dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/list_of_bioscience_awardees.pdf |title=Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development |date=2016 |publisher=Department of Biotechnology |access-date=2017-11-20 |archive-date=4 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180304191331/http://dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/list_of_bioscience_awardees.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Anil Grover, a member of the [[Guha Research Conference]] and a recipient of the Professor Hira Lal Chakravarty Award of the [[Indian Science Congress Association]], received Young Scientists Medal of the [[Indian National Science Academy]] in 1990 and the B. M. Birla Science Prize of the Birla Science Centre in 1997.<ref name="B M Birla Science Prize">{{Cite web |url=http://www.birlasciencecentre.org/awards/birlaSciencePrizes/ |title=B M Birla Science Prize |date=2017-12-06 |website=www.birlasciencecentre.org |access-date=2017-12-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128175901/http://www.birlasciencecentre.org/awards/birlaSciencePrizes/ |archive-date=28 January 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Two years later, the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]] elected him as a fellow in 1999.<ref name="NASI fellows">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=G |title=NASI fellows |date=2017-11-12 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India |access-date=2017-11-12 |archive-date=21 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021102942/http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=G |url-status=dead }}</ref> The [[Department of Biotechnology]] of the Government of India awarded him the [[National Bioscience Award for Career Development]], one of the highest Indian science awards in 2002.<ref name="Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development" /> He received the elected fellowship of the [[National Academy of Agricultural Sciences]] in 2003<ref name="NAAS Fellows" /> and of the Indian National Science Academy and the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] in 2007.<ref name="Fellow profile" /> He has delivered award orations such as the G. V. Joshi Memorial lecture of the Indian Society of Plant Physiology (2011) and the research scholarships/fellowships he has held included the National Scholarship of the [[University Grants Commission of India]], two fellowships from Rockefeller Foundation, an Indo-Australia visiting fellowship (2013), CIDA/NSERC research associateship of the [[Canadian International Development Agency]] and the J. C. Bose National Fellowship of the [[Science and Engineering Research Board]] twice; the first in 2011 and the second in 2015 with tenure of the fellowship running until 2020.<ref name="University Faculty Details Page on DU Web-site" /><ref name="Indian fellow" />

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