Hs Randhawa

Biography

Harbans Singh Randhawa received MSc (Hons School, Botany) from Panjab University in 1956. He joined Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute (VPCI), Delhi, as Assistant Research Officer (Mycologist) in an ICMR research project on etiopathogenesis of bagassosis led by Professor Raman Viswanathan. He was awarded PhD (Medical Mycology) in 1964 by the University of Delhi. He had postdoctoral training in fungal infections at the Institute of Dermatology, London, UK, (1964-65) under a Nuffield Foundation Fellowship, and as Senior Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (1970-71) in Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany. In 1980, he worked at the Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, USA under a Fulbright-Hay's Academic Exchange Program. Randhawa's first regular faculty appointment was as a Junior Research Officer in the newly established Department of Medical Mycology, VPCI, in 1959. He later rose to the positions of Senior Reseach Officer (1965), Professor of Medical Mycology (1981) and Director, VPCI (1991-98). Following supperanuation in 1998, he has remained actively engaged in research as an INSA Honorary Scientist in the same institute.

Research Interest

Medical Mycology, Microbiology