Prati Pal Singh, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), S. A. S Nagar, India, got his B. Sc. (1973) and M. Sc. (1975) degrees from The University of Lucknow, Lucknow. For his Ph. D. degree, he worked at the Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow and got the degree from Kanpur University, Kanpur (1980). He did his postdoctoral research work at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA (1984-85) and at a very prestigious institution, The Stanford University, Stanford, Palo Alto, California, USA (1986). He was a visiting fellow at the Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Canada (1985). He is a renowned molecular biologist, immunologist and neuroimmunopharmacologist. He conceptualized and reported that opiate class of drugs can be used for the treatment of parasitic and microbial infections. He has made some very important contributions to control and treatment of parasitic and microbial diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, leishmaniasis, amoebiasis and trichomoniasis. He has 202 publications including one in Nature Medicine, and 9 patents including one US patent. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Parasitic Diseases and an Editorial Board Member of a US journal, Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology and some other journals. He was elected Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India (2004) for his work on biotechnology, parasitology and neuroimmunomodulation, and Fellow of Association of Microbiologists of India (2008). He has been awarded the prestigious Tulasbai Somani Educational Trust Award (1992) of the Indian Academy of Neurosciences. He has been awarded huge grant funds from Government of India for his researches on malaria, tuberculosis and leishmaniasis over the last two decades. He is a co-investigator in an Indo-European Union Seventh Framework Programme (2008) to discover new drugs for tuberculosis. He has been invited for lectures/meetings in USA, Switzerland, France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, China and UK. He was awarded The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Award in 2008 to present his malaria immunology work in a Keystone Symposium, Austria. In the year 2006, National Institute on Drug Abuse, USA awarded him a travel award to present his work on neuroimmunomodulation in leishmanisis at Santa Fe, NM, USA. Prof. Singh is a Member, IBCs Leading Health Professional of the World 2015. He is the Nodal Officer of NIPER, Raebareli, and has been the Member/Chairman of high-powered Scientific Advisory Committees/sub-committees and selection committees of the institutes of Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi. Presently, Prof. Singh is a Senator of NIPER, and has been the Associate Dean (Academic Affairs).
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Guangzhou Regenerative Medicine and Health Guangdong Laboratory
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National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
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International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB)
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