Rajinder Singh Chauhan
Jaypee University of Information Technology, India
Biography
Rajinder Singh Chauhan has completed his PhD with specialization in Plant Biotechnology at HPAU, Palampur in 1991. He has joined as Assistant Professor and played a key role in the establishment of Biotech Center at HPAU till 1997. He then moved to the USA as a Visiting Scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison through Young Scientist Fellowship schemes, DBT Overseas Associate and DST BOYSCAST of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Goverment of India (1997-2004). He had advanced trainings in high throughput genomics at various Institutes in the USA such as The Institute of Genomics Research, Maryland; Waksman Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University; Crop Biotech Center, Texas A and M University, College Station. He then joined back as an Associate Profesoor at HPAU, Palampur in 2004 and set up a DBT funded Bioinformatics Center as a Program Coordinator. He is the Recipient of Jawahar Lal Nehru Academic Award of the ICAR and the PranVohra Award of the Indian Science Congress Association. His current research program is aimed at gene discovery for industrial phytochemicals. He is currently working as Dean (Biotechnology) and provided Leadership to rank the Department among top biotech schools in India.