Anand Kumar Bachhawat: Difference between revisions

'''Anand Kumar Bachhawat''' (born 1 October 1958) is an Indian geneticist, biochemist, professor in biological sciences and the dean of faculty at the [[Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali]].<ref name="Anand Kumar Bachhawat  -  Professor in Biological Sciences and Dean Faculty">{{Cite web |url=http://14.139.227.202/faculty/anandb/index.php/contact |title=Anand Kumar Bachhawat - Professor in Biological Sciences and Dean Faculty |date=2017-11-24 |website=IISER Mohali |access-date=2017-11-24}}</ref> Known for his studies on microbial genetics,<ref name="Indian fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail/P12-1566 |title=Indian fellow |date=2017-10-21 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=2017-10-22}}</ref> Bachhawat is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies namely [[Indian Academy of Sciences]],<ref name="Fellow profile">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Bachhawat,_Dr_Anand_Kumar |title=Fellow profile |date=2017-11-12 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |access-date=2017-11-12}}</ref> [[National Academy of Sciences, India]]<ref name="NASI fellows">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=B |title=NASI fellows |date=2017-11-12 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India |access-date=2017-11-12}}</ref> and [[Indian National Science Academy]].<ref name="INSA Year Book 2016">{{Cite web |url=http://www.insaindia.res.in/pdf/YearBook_2016.pdf |title=INSA Year Book 2016 |date=2017-11-24 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=2017-11-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104001952/http://www.insaindia.res.in/pdf/YearBook_2016.pdf |archive-date=4 November 2016 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

Bachhawat, an alumnus of the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur]] from where he secured a PhD,<ref name="Dr Anand Kumar Bachhawat on Vidwan">{{Cite web |url=https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/profile/42961 |title=Dr Anand Kumar Bachhawat on Vidwan |date=2017-11-24 |website=Vidwan |access-date=2017-11-24}}</ref> heads the Bachawat Lab at the Department of Biological Sciences of IISER Mohali.<ref name="Department of Biological Sciences">{{Cite web |url=http://14.139.227.202/faculty/anandb/ |title=Department of Biological Sciences |date=2017-11-24 |website=IISER Mohali |access-date=2017-11-24}}</ref> His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles<ref name="On ResearchGate">{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/10460202_Anand_Kumar_Bachhawat |title=On ResearchGate |date=2017-11-23 |publisher=On ResearchGate |access-date=2017-11-23}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} and the online repository of scientific articles of the Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 29 of them.<ref name="Browse by Fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Bachhawat=3AAnand_Kumar=3A=3A.html |title=Browse by Fellow |date=2017-11-21 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |access-date=2017-11-21}}</ref> He also holds patents for the biochemical processes he has developed.<ref name="Patents by Inventor Anand Kumar Bachhawat">{{Cite web |url=https://patents.justia.com/inventor/anand-kumar-bachhawat |title=Patents by Inventor Anand Kumar Bachhawat |date=2017-11-24 |website=Justia Patents |access-date=2017-11-24}}</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, for his contributions to biosciences in 2000.<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}}</ref>

* {{cite book|author1=Iqbal Ahmad|author2=Mohammad Owais, Mohammed Shahid, Farrukh Aqil (editors)|author3=Anand Kumar Bachhawat, Anil Kumar Yadav (chapter authors)|title=Combating Fungal Infections: Problems and Remedy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lXlXSEzuicwC&pg=PA327|date=3 August 2010|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-642-12173-9|pages=327–|chapter=Metabolic Pathways as Drug Targets: Targeting the Sulphur Assimilatory Pathways of Yeast and Fungi for Novel Drug Discovery}}

* {{Cite journal |last=Amandeep Kaur, Ruchi Gautam, Ritika Srivastava, Avinash Chandel, Akhilesh Kumar, Subramanian Karthikeyan, Anand Kumar Bachhawat |title=ChaC2: An Enzyme for Slow Turnover of Cytosolic Glutathione |journal=Journal of Biological Chemistry |publication-date=2016|doi=10.1074/jbc.M116.727479|pmc=5241738 |pmid=27913623 |volume=292 |year=2017 |pages=638–651}}

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