Ashish Arora

Ashish Arora is an Indian structural biologist and a senior scientist at the Central Drug Research Institute.[1] He did his postgraduate studies at Goa University and post-doctoral work at the University of Louisville before joining the Central Drug Research Institute in 2011.[2] He is known for his studies on Protein NMR Spectroscopy[3] and the pathogenesis of diseases such as tuberculosis and visceral leishmaniasis, commonly known as Kala Azar[4] and has delivered invited speeches at various seminars.[5] 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 his contributions to biosciences, in 2011.[6] He is also a recipient of the 2010 Prof. B. K. Bachhawat Memorial Young Scientist Award of the National Academy of Sciences, India.[7]

Ashish Arora
Born
India
NationalityIndian
Alma mater
Known forStudies on the pathogenesis of tuberculosis and visceral leishmaniasis
Awards
  • 2010 NASI Prof. B. K. Bachhawat Memorial Young Scientist Award
  • 2011 N-BIOS Prize
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions

Selected bibliography
  • Kabra, Ashish; Shahid, Salman; Pal, Ravi Kant; Yadav, Rahul; Pulavarti, S. V. S. Rama Krishna; Jain, Anupam; Tripathi, Sarita; Arora, Ashish (1 February 2017). "Unraveling the stereochemical and dynamic aspects of the catalytic site of bacterial peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase". RNA. 23 (2): 202–216. doi:10.1261/rna.057620.116. ISSN 1355-8382. PMC 5238795. PMID 28096445.
  • Kabra, Ashish; Fatma, Farheen; Shahid, Salman; Pathak, Prem Prakash; Yadav, Rahul; Pulavarti, S.V.S.R. Krishna; Tripathi, Sarita; Jain, Anupam; Arora, Ashish (2016). "Structural characterization of peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase from Mycobacterium smegmatis by NMR spectroscopy". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics. 1864 (10): 1304–1314. doi:10.1016/j.bbapap.2016.06.013. PMID 27378575.
  • Shukla, Vaibhav Kumar; Kabra, Ashish; Yadav, Rahul; Ono, Shoichiro; Kumar, Dinesh; Arora, Ashish (1 October 2015). "NMR assignments of actin depolymerizing factor (ADF) like UNC-60A and cofilin like UNC-60B proteins of Caenorhabditis elegans". Biomolecular NMR Assignments. 9 (2): 261–265. doi:10.1007/s12104-014-9588-5. ISSN 1874-2718. PMC 4465417. PMID 25503290.

References
  1. cosmic (28 January 2018). "Faculty list". www.cdri.res.in. Archived from the original on 29 January 2018. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
  2. "Ashish Kabra - ResearchGate". ResearchGate. 28 January 2018. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
  3. "Scientist profile". www.cdri.res.in. 28 January 2018. Archived from the original on 29 January 2018. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
  4. "CDRI Scientist Bags NASI Young Scientist Lecture Award". National Academy of Sciences, India. 2011. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
  5. "24th Conference of the National Magnetic Resonance Society of India" (PDF). IISER Mohali. 28 January 2018. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
  6. "Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development" (PDF). Department of Biotechnology. 2016. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  7. "Prof. B.K. Bachhawat Memorial Young Scientist Lecture Awardees". www.nasi.org.in. 28 January 2018. Retrieved 28 January 2018.


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