Amit Singh is an Indian

microbiologist A microbiologist (from Ancient Greek, Greek ) is a scientist who studies microscopic life forms and processes. This includes study of the growth, interactions and characteristics of Microorganism, microscopic organisms such as bacteria, algae, f ...

and an associate professor at the department of microbiology and cell biology of the Indian Institute of Science. A Wellcome- DBT Senior Fellow, Singh is known for his studies on the pathogenesis of ''Mycobacterium tuberculosis''. The

Department of Biotechnology The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) is an Indian government department, under the Ministry of Science and Technology responsible for administrating development and commercialisation in the field of modern biology and biotechnology in India. It ...

of the Government of India awarded him the

National Bioscience Award for Career Development The National Bio-science Award for Career Development or N-BIOS Prize is an Indian science award for recognizing excellence and promoting research in bio-sciences disciplines. It was instituted in 1999 by the Department of Biotechnology of the Gov ...

for 2017/18. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award in 2021 for his research. He received the 2021 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Biological Science.

Biography

Amit Singh was born on 18 March 1976. He graduated in science from the University of Delhi and earned his master's degree in biotechnology from the

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (abbreviated IIT Roorkee) is a technical university located in Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India. It is the oldest engineering institution in India, and was founded as the College of Civil Engineering in Bri ...

in 1998. He then obtained a Ph.D. in 2004 under the guidance of

Anil Kumar Tyagi Anil Kumar Tyagi (born 2 April 1951) is former Vice Chancellor of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Delhi. Prior to this he was co-ordinator of UGC- SAP Programme and head of Department of Biochemistry at South Campus of Delhi Universit ...

at the South Campus of the University of Delhi and moved to the US for post-doctoral training at the laboratory of Adrie JC Steyn of the

University of Alabama in Birmingham The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is a public research university in Birmingham, Alabama. Developed from an academic extension center established in 1936, the institution became a four-year campus in 1966 and a fully autonomous univ ...

. On his return to India in 2010, he joined the

International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology The International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) was established as a project of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in 1983. The Organisation has three Component laboratories with over 45 ongo ...

as a Wellcome Trust- DBT intermediate fellow. In January 2014, he joined the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) at their department of microbiology and cell biology, where he holds the position of an associate professor. He heads the Centre for Infectious Disease Research as its group leader, hosting several researchers who do research on the mechanisms of chronic human infections with a special focus on

Mycobacterium tuberculosis ''Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (M. tb) is a species of pathogenic bacteria in the family Mycobacteriaceae and the causative agent of tuberculosis. First discovered in 1882 by Robert Koch, ''M. tuberculosis'' has an unusual, waxy coating on its c ...

and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Singh, has been a Wellcome Trust-DBT senior fellow since 2016. The

of the Government of India awarded him the

for 2017/18.

Publications

Most cited articles at University of Alabama

* (Cited by 204 articles according to Google Scholar.) * (Cited by 154 articles according to Google Scholar.)

Most cited articles at IISc

*Ashima Bhaskar, Manbeena Chawla, Mansi Mehta, Pankti Parikh, Pallavi Chandra, Devayani Bhave, Dhiraj Kumar, Kate S Carroll, Amit Singh. Reengineering redox sensitive GFP to measure mycothiol redox potential of Mycobacterium tuberculosis during infection. 2014. ''PLOS Pathogens''. 10:1 e1003902. (Cited by 88 articles according to Google Scholar.) *Rufai SB, Kumar P, Singh A, Prajapati S, Balooni V, Singh S. Comparison of Xpert MTB/RIF with line probe assay for detection of rifampin-monoresistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. ''Journal of clinical microbiology''. 2014 June; 52 (6): 1846–52. (Cited by 76 articles according to Google Scholar.) *Chawla M, Parikh P, Saxena A, Munshi M, Mehta M, Mai D, Srivastava AK, Narasimhulu KV, Redding KE, Vashi N, Kumar D. Adrie JC Steyn and Amit Singh. Mycobacterium tuberculosis WhiB4 regulates oxidative stress response to modulate survival and dissemination in vivo. ''Molecular microbiology''. 2012 September; 85 (6): 1148–65. (Cited by 56 articles according to Google Scholar.)

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