Prof. Asad Khan

Dr. Asad U Khan graduated in Chemistry and did his post graduate in Biotechnology in 1994 and obtained a doctorate in Biochemistry from Aligarh Muslim University in association with International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi.He joined as lecturer in 1997 and later proceeded for his post-doctoral research in RUTGERS University, New Jersey, USA during 2000-2003 for three years. Currently he is Professor in Biotechnology Unit. Dr. Khan is recipient of many Fellowships and awards. He is recipient of BOYSCAST Fellowship of DST, Government of India to work as Visiting Scientist in one of the laboratories in University of Napoli, Italy during 2005. In year 2010. He has visited Hospital Biceter , Paris under DBT-CREST award programme of Department of Biotechnology. He has received grants from DST CSIR DBT ICMR and CCRUM. Dr Khan is member of Editorial board of several International journals. He has edited Three books and author of over 255 Research articles in the peer reviewed journals with high impact factor with H-index of 57/45 (GC/Scopus). (Research cited in Nature, Cell, EMBO J, Gen & Dev JBC etc). He is member of many national and international academic bodies. On all these achievements Aligarh Muslim University conferred an Outstanding Research Award of the year to Prof Asad Ullah Khan on the day of Sir Syed day celebration in 2014. He is also recipient of most prestigious awards, National Bioscience Award of DBT, Government of India in 2012