Brahm Shanker Srivastava (born 1943) is an Indian microbiologist, inventor and a former deputy director and head of Microbiology division of the

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. He is the founder of Biotech Research, a non-profit non governmental institution promoting research in the field of biotechnology and is a director of Nextec Lifesciences Private Limited, a start up involved in biomedical products and research applications. He is known for his researches on microbial genetics and is an elected fellow of the

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. The

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, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Medical Sciences in 1984.

Biography

B. S. Srivastava, born on 1 June 1943, earned his graduate degree from Banaras Hindu University and continued his studies at BHU to secure his masters' and doctoral degrees. Most of his academic career was spent at

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where he became a professor and the founder chair of the ''Centre for Biotechnology''. Subsequently, he moved to the

where he headed the Division of Microbiology and served as the deputy director of the institute. In 2012, along with Ranjana Srivastava, he founded Biotech Research, a not-for-profit research platform for promoting research in biotechnology. In between, he served at a number of universities which included

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, University of Ancona, Banaras Hindu University and Mizoram University as a visiting faculty. Srivastava's researches covered the discipline of microbial genetics and he has done extensive studies of

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. He is credited with the development of bacterial mutants which have applications in vaccine development and he holds a patent for his work. He has documented his researches by way of several articles in per-reviewed journals and his work has been cited by a number of authors and researchers. Besides, he has also contributed chapters to books published by others. He was associated with the ''Indo-US Vaccine Action Program'' as a member and traveled with the Indian delegation on Biotechnology which visited the US and China.

Awards and honors

The

awarded him

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is a science award in India given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, Applied science, applied or Fundamenta ...

, one of the highest Indian science awards in 1984. He received

Om Prakash Bhasin Award Om Prakash Bhasin Award for Science and Technology is an Indian award, instituted in 1985 to recognize excellence in the areas of science and technology. The award, given individually or collectively to a group, is annual in cycle and carries a p ...

in 1995 and the Government of Uttar Pradesh honored him with Vigyan Ratna Samman in 2002. He is an elected fellow of the

and the American Academy of Microbiology. The award orations delivered by him include Dr. Nitya Anand Endowment Lecture of the Indian National Science Academy in 1991 and Dr. Y.S. Narayana Rao Oration of the Indian Council of Medical Research in 1993.

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