Asis Datta

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Asis Datta
Born2 February 1944
ISC
Lifetime Achievement Award
BRS Lifetime achievement Award
Priyadarshini Gold Medal
G. M. Modi Science Award

Asis Datta is an Indian

Republic Day Honours list for the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan.[4]

Biography

Datta, born on 2 February 1944,

Jawaharlal Nehru University[7] and as the distinguished emeritus scientist and professor emeritus by the National Institute of Plant Genome Research.[8]

Positions

Datta has been associated with several central and state government and government-aided autonomous bodies in various positions. He chaired the Recruitment Assessment Board of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) from 2003 to 2006 and has held the chair of the Integrated Long Term Programme (ILTP) of the Department of Science and Technology.[6] He was the chairman of Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) of the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata from 2005 to 2007 and has been holding the chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Vector Control Research Centre, Puducherry from 2007 till date.[7] He has served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Prime Minister of India and was involved in the Tenth Five–Year Plan of India as a member of the Steering Committee on Science and Technology of the Planning Commission. He was also a member of the Steering Committee of Biotechnology of the states of Maharashtra, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal.[7]

Datta was the president of the Society of Biological Chemists in 2000 and the

Central University of Hyderabad, Northeastern University.[7]

Career

Human tongue infected with oral candidiasis

Besides his academic contributions as a teacher, Datta is reported to have contributed in developing the

Jawaharlal Nehru University by establishing schools and centres of excellence within the university.[1] He is also credited with pioneering researches in the field of molecular biology. His researches on Candida albicans, a pathogenic variety of fungus which causes candidiasis, an infection to humans, have assisted in designing a drug to combat the disease.[1][9] The team led by him have carried out biological researches which have applications in the fields of agriculture, medicine, science and industry; discovery of genes which helps in extending the shelf life of fruits and vegetables and development of genetically modified food are two such applications.[6][9] His team was successful in receiving US patents, the first time an Indian firm receiving US patent for genes.[1] His researches on the structure-function-application of eukaryotic genes paved way for the creation of the National Institute of Plant Genome Research, the first institute in India for genetic research.[1] He has published several articles, documenting his researches, in peer reviewed journals and Google Scholar has listed 226 of them, with an h-index of 20 and i10-index of 35 (since 2010).[10] He holds 7 Indian patents, 5 US patents and 5 patents of other countries for his research findings.[6] He has also mentored over 45 research scholars in their doctoral research.[1]

Awards and honours

Datta is an elected Fellow of all the three major Indian science academies,

Bidhan Chandra Agricultural University, Vidyasagar University and Pandit Ravi Shankar Shukla University also awarded DSc to him in 2004, 2008 and 2017.[1]

While working as a Professor at JNU, Datta was awarded

TWAS Prize of the World Academy of Sciences reached him in 1996,[9] the same year as he received three more awards, Goyal Prize, Ranbaxy Award in Medical Sciences and D. M Bose Gold Medal of the Indian Science News Association.[6]

The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of the

Indian Science Congress awarded him the Asutosh Mookerjee Medal, the same year and followed it up with the Lifetime Achievement award in 2006.[7] The year 2011 also brought him three awards, namely, Lifetime Achievement award of the Biotech Research Society, Priyadarshini Gold Medal and G. M. Modi Science Award.[6] He has also delivered several award orations; Sir Amulya Rattan Oration, Bashambar Nath Chopra Lecture and Sir Edward Melbary Oration are a few among them.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "INSA Fellow". Indian National Science Academy. 2015. Archived from the original on 12 August 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  2. ^ a b "NISCAIR profile". Web Cache. National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources. 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2015.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ a b "SSB Prize list of awardees". Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  4. ^ a b c "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  5. ^ "IAS Fellow". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "NIPGR profile". National Institute of Plant Genome Research. 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Jawaharlal Nehru University profile" (PDF). Jawaharlal Nehru University. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 July 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  8. ^ "Professors Emeritus/Emerita". Jawaharlal Nehru University. 2015. Archived from the original on 15 November 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  9. ^ a b c "1996 TWAS Award Winners". The World Academy of Sciences. 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  10. ^ "Google Scholar profile". Google Scholar. 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  11. ^ "NASI Fellow". National Academy of Sciences, India. 2015. Archived from the original on 17 July 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  12. ^ a b "TWAS Fellow". The World Academy of Sciences. 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  13. ^ "Om Prakash Bhasin Award". Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation. 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2015.

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