Amit Prakash Sharma

Amit P. Sharma
Born (1968-04-12) April 12, 1968
India
Residence New Delhi, India
Nationality Indian
Alma mater
Known for Studies on malaria
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions

Amit Prakash Sharma (born April 12, 1968) is an Indian parasitologist and the head of the Structural and Computational Biology Group at the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology. Known for his studies on the disease of malaria, Sharma is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, India. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, for his contributions to biosciences in 2007 and he received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prizeone of the highest Indian science awards, in 2011.

Biography

Amit Sharma, born on April 12, 1968,[1] earned his master's degree from Purdue University[2] and did his doctoral studies in protein crystallography at the Northwestern University to secure a PhD in 1995.[3] His post-doctoral work was at the Oxford University until 2000 during which time he also served as a faculty the Trinity College of Oxford University. On his return to India in 2004, he joined the Structural and Computational Biology Group of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) as a staff scientist. He heads the group[4] where he hosts a number of scholars and scientists.[5]

Sharma resides in Vasant Kunj, in New Delhi.[6]

Legacy

Life Cycle of the Malaria Parasite

Sharma's research is focused in the flied of structural parasitology and he is known to have carried out advanced research in malaria parasite biology.[7] He led the ICGEB group of scientists who collaborated with the researchers from the Broad Institute who discovered a new compound, bicyclic azetidine, which showed potential against Plasmodium parasite that caused malaria.[8] His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles[9][note 1] and PublicationsList, an online repository of scientific articles has listed several of them.[10] He has delivered keynote or invited speeches at many conferences[11][12] and sits in the editorial board of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India for Section B - Biological Sciences.[13]

Awards and honors

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 in 2007.[14] He received the Goyal Prize in 2009.[15] and in 2011, he was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, in the biological sciences category,[16] He was selected for the Infosys Prize in 2015 for his contribution to Life Sciences.[17] The 2015 RCSB PDB Poster Prize of the Asian Crystallographic Association was secured by Vipul Jain for his poster,[18] based on an article, Structure of Prolyl-tRNA Synthetase-Halofuginone Complex Provides Basis for Development of Drugs against Malaria and Toxoplasmosis. which he co-wrote with Amit Sharma.[19]

The National Academy of Sciences, India elected Sharma as a fellow in 2006[20] and he received the elected fellowship of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 2012.[21]

Notes

  1. ↑ Please see Selected bibliography section

References

  1. ↑ "Fellow profile". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2017-12-28. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  2. ↑ "Brain Gain: Fifteen young academics who have reversed the brain drain at the peak of their careers by returning to India". September 13, 2013. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  3. ↑ "Amit Sharma - ICGEB". www.icgeb.org. 2017-12-28. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  4. ↑ "Infosys Prize - Laureates 2015 - Dr. Amit Sharma". www.infosys-science-foundation.com. 2015. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  5. ↑ "Structural Parasitology - ICGEB". www.icgeb.org. 2017-12-28. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  6. ↑ "NASI fellows". National Academy of Sciences, India. 2017-12-21. Retrieved 2017-12-21.
  7. ↑ "Awardee Details: Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize". ssbprize.gov.in. 2017-12-28. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  8. ↑ Prasad, R. (2016-09-13). "New single-dose treatment shows promise in anti-malaria battle". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  9. ↑ labome.org (2017-12-28). "Amit Sharma on Labome".
  10. ↑ "Amit Sharma - Publications List". publicationslist.org. 2017-12-28. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  11. ↑ "2005 Malaria Conference GRC". www.grc.org. 2005. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  12. ↑ "Programme - CSIR Foundation Day 2012". sap.csir.res.in. 2012. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  13. ↑ "The National Academy of Sciences, India - Editorial". www.nasi.org.in. 2017-12-28. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  14. ↑ "Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development" (PDF). Department of Biotechnology. 2016. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
  15. ↑ "7 scientists to get Goyal Prize". www.tribuneindia.com. March 13, 2009. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  16. ↑ "11 scientists selected for Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award" ibn live, Sep 26,2011 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-01-04. Retrieved 2011-12-20.
  17. ↑ "Amit Sharma, ICGEB New Delhi wins this year's Infosys Award in Life Sciences - ICGEB". www.icgeb.org. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  18. ↑ Bank, RCSB Protein Data. "RCSB PDB". Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  19. ↑ Jain, Vitul; Yogavel, Manickam; Oshima, Yoshiteru; Kikuchi, Haruhisa; Touquet, Bastien; Hakimi, Mohamed-Ali; Sharma, Amit. "Structure of Prolyl-tRNA Synthetase-Halofuginone Complex Provides Basis for Development of Drugs against Malaria and Toxoplasmosis". Structure. 23 (5): 819–829. doi:10.1016/j.str.2015.02.011.
  20. ↑ "NASI Year Book 2015" (PDF). National Academy of Sciences, India. 2017-12-17. Retrieved 2017-12-17.
  21. ↑ "Fellowship - Indian Academy of Sciences". www.ias.ac.in. 2017-12-28. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  • "Dr. Amit Sharma, Group Leader and Staff Scientist, ICGEB". scm.niscair.res.in. 2017-12-28. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  • "Author profile - PubMed - NCBI". PubMed. 2017-12-28. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
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