Rajendra Prasad

Biography

Rajendra Prasad obtained BSc (1965) and MSc (1967) from Lucknow University, after which he joined Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow where he worked on 'lipids of biological membranes'. After his postdoctoral training (1973-76) at University of Southern California School of Medicine, USA, he joined Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi (1976) as Assistant Professor where he became full Professor in 1985. He also served as Dean, School of Life Sciences (1996-98) and Chairperson, Special Centre for Molecular Medicine (1999-2003). He is currently Rector (2005-10) and an Adjunct Professor in the Special Centre for Molecular Medicine. In between, he took several short-term sabbaticals/study leaves and worked as Visiting Research Associate/Professor at New York Medical College, Valhalla (1979-80); Royal Society Bursary Awardee, University of Bath, UK; Humboldt Fellow, University of Bonn (1985-86) and University of Darmstadt, Germany (1987); DBT Overseas Fellow, Bristol Mayer-Squibb Princeton, USA (1989); Visiting Professor, Catholic University, Belgium (1993), and Technical University of Valencia, Spain (1994); Welcome Fellow, University of Aberdeen, UK (2002); Mercator Professor, University of Bonn, Germany (2005) and Visiting Professor, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris (2008-09).

Research Interest

Membrane Biology, Biochemistry, Fungal Genetics