User:Gajendra P.S. Raghava

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Dr Raghava is a scientist working at Bioinformatics Centre, Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH), Chandigarh, India. He did M.Sc. form Meerut University, M.Tech from IIT Delhi and PhD from IMTECH Chandigarh. He worked as Postdoctoral fellow at Oxford university UK (1996-98), Bioinformatics specialist at UAMS, USA (2002-3 & 2006) and visiting professor at POSTECH, South Korea (2004). His group developed more than 100 web servers, 100 research papers, 50 Copyrights, 10 databases and mirror sites. He is responsible for setting Bioinformatics infrastructure at IMTECH and at UAMS Little Rock, USA (http://bic.uams.edu/). He got following major awards/recognition i) Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Biological Science, 2008 ii) National Bioscience Award for Carrier Development, for year 2005-2006 (by Department of Biotechnology, Govt. India); iii) NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award, 2009; iv) Thomson Reuters Research Excellence - India Research Front Awards, 2009; v) Fellow of National Academy of Sciences (F.N.A.Sc); and vi) Fellow of Indian Academy of Science (F.A.Sc.) Banglore.