Chetan Eknath Chitnis

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Chetan Eknath Chitnis
Born3 April 1961 (1961-04-03) (age 63)
India
OccupationScientist (Malaria research)
Awards
Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award
Infosys Prize
IAS Fellow
INSA Fellow

BioSpectrum Person of the Year

Chetan Eknath Chitnis is an Indian scientist in the field of

Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award in 2004 and the Infosys Prize in Life Sciences 2010.[4][5] Chitnis is the former principal investigator of the malaria research group at the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) in New Delhi.[6]

Education and career

Chitnis completed his Master of Science in physics at

Institut Pasteur in Paris.[1]

Chitnis has published over 100 international papers and has three patents pertaining to malaria vaccines.[7]

Research interest

Chitnis's work is predominantly in the areas of molecular

erythrocytes
.

At ICGEB, Chitnis has also established a protein production facility for the production of malaria vaccines based on novel concepts.

Other activities

  • Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Member of the External Advisory Committee[8]

Awards and honors

Chitnis, who received the University of California Regents' Fellowship, Henry Kaiser Fellowship and Abraham Rosenberg Research Fellowship during his doctoral research years, was a Fogarty International Fellow at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda during 1991–96. The American Society for Microbiology awarded him the ICAAC Young Investigator Award in 1995[9] and he delivered the Dr. B.N. Singh Memorial Award Oration of the Indian Society for Parasitology in 1997.[10] In the same year, he also won the MOT Iyengar Award for Research on Malaria.[11]

He was International Research Scholar at

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.[15] He became an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy in 2014[3] and in between, he received the Infosys Prize in Life Sciences in 2010[5] and the BioSpectrum Person of the Year award in 2011.[16]

References

  1. ^ a b "Malaria Parasite Biology and Vaccines Unit". Institut Pasteur. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Indian Academy of Sciences - Fellowship entry for Dr. Chitnis". Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  3. ^ a b "Indian National Science Academy - Academy News December 2014" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  4. ^ "Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize For Science And Technology-2004" (PDF). Awards. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
  5. ^ a b "Infosys Prize laureate in life sciences in 2010 - Dr. Chetan E. Chitnis". Archived from the original on 17 November 2010. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
  6. ^ a b "Profile of Chetan Chitnis on the ICGEB homepage". International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology. Archived from the original on 16 July 2017. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
  7. ^ "Index of scientific articles by Chetan E. Chitnis on Pubmed". PubMed. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  8. ^ Governance Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal).
  9. ^ "ICAAC Young Investigator Awards Past Laureates". American Society for Microbiology. Archived from the original on 25 December 2011. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
  10. ^ "Recipients of Dr. B.N. Singh Memorial Oration Award". The Indian Society of Parasitology. Archived from the original on 11 February 2012. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
  11. ^ "M.O.T.Iyengar Award (1997)". List of recipients of ICMR awards and prizes for 1997. Indian Council of Medical Research. Archived from the original on 23 June 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
  12. ^ "Profile of Chetan E. Chitnis". HHMI Alumni International Scholars. Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
  13. ^ "Past Fellows". Indian Senior Research Fellows. Wellcome Trust. Archived from the original on 17 June 2012. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
  14. ^ "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2017.
  15. ^ "IIT Bombay Celebrates Foundation Day". 2009 IIT-B News Archives. Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay. Archived from the original on 30 January 2012. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
  16. ^ "BioSpectrum Annual Awards 2011". European Vaccine Initiative. Archived from the original on 31 March 2017. Retrieved 31 March 2017.

External links

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