Ashwani Kumar (scientist)

Ashwani Kumar is an Indian bacteriologist, biotechnologies, and the principal scientist at the Institute of Microbial Technology (ImTech). He is known for his studies on Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis. His laboratory focuses on understanding the reasons for drug tolerance observed in humans. His laboratory hypothesise that tuberculosis is a biofilm infection and that is why its treatment needs administration of multiple drugs for at least six months. The Department of Science and Technology has awarded him Swarnajayanti Fellowship for years 2016-2017.

This article is about the scientist. For other people with a similar name, see Ashwani Kumar.
Ashwani Kumar
Born
New Delhi, India
NationalityIndian
Known forStudies on Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Doctoral advisorVani Brahmachari

Biography

Ashwani Kumar is a principal scientist at the Institute of Microbial Technology (ImTech)[1] where he heads a laboratory, popularly known as Ashwani Kumar's Lab.[2] and serves as a principal investigator.[3] He is known to have done extensive research on Mycobacterium tuberculosis and has served as a member of MDRIpred project,[4] an open source server for predicting inhibitors against drug-tolerant M.tb H37Rv.[5] He has published a number of articles;[6] [note 1] ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 31 of them.[7] 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 him contributions to biosciences, in 2017–18.[8]

Selected bibliography

Articles

See also

Notes
  1. Please see Selected bibliography section

References
  1. "Ashwani Kumar - ImTech profile". Institute of Microbial Technology. 2019-01-14. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
  2. "Ashwani Kumar's lab - Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH)". ResearchGate. 2019-01-14. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
  3. "Addgene: Ashwani Kumar Lab Plasmids". www.addgene.org. 2019-01-14. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
  4. "MDRIpred: A webserver for predicting inhibitors against drug resistant M.Tuberculosis". crdd.osdd.net. 2019-01-14. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
  5. "Welcome to MDRIpred". crdd.osdd.net. 2019-01-14. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
  6. "Ashwani Kumar - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. 2019-01-14. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
  7. "Ashwani Kumar Institute of Microbial Technology - IMTECH · Molecular Mycobacteriology 28 36 ·". ResearchGate. 2019-01-14. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
  8. "Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development" (PDF). Department of Biotechnology. 2019. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
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