Rakesh Bhatnagar
Professor
School of Biotechnology
Jawaharlal Nehru University
India
Biography
(a) Administrative Experience 2013 - 2015: Dean, School of Biotechnology 2012 - 2013: Vice Chancellor, Kumaun University 2011 - 2012: Director, Academic staff college, Jawaharlal Nehru University. 2009 - 2011: Director, Advanced Instrumentation Research Facility, Jawaharlal Nehru University. 2006 onwards : Chairman, Intellectual Property Management Cell, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. 2001 - 2003 : Chairman, Centre for Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. 1993 - 1995 : Chairman, Centre for Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. 1990 - 1993 : Chairman, Bioinformatics Centre, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. (b) Academic Experience 1997 onwards : Professor, School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. 1989 - 1997 : Associate Professor, Centre for Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. 1987 - 1989 : Senior NRC Associate, USAMRIID, Fredrick MD, USA. 1986 - 1987 : Visiting Associate, NHLBI, NIH,Bethesda, MD, USA. 1985 - 1986 : Visiting Assistant Prof., Lab. Connective Tissue, Biochemistry, CHU, Caen, FRANCE. 1983 - 1985 : Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Post Graduate Institute of Med. Education & Research, Chandigarh. 1982 - 1983 : Pool Officer, Department of Biochemistry, V. P. Chest Institute, University of Delhi. 1979 - 1982 : Scientist (Wiessenschaftliecher Angeschtelter), Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Freiburg University, Freiburg, GERMANY.
Research Interest
Rakesh Bhatnagar research interest include Molecular Biology of Infectious Diseases, Recombinant Vaccine Development, Programmed cell death in prokaryotes.
Publications
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3. Kaur M., Saxena A., Rai A. and Bhatnagar R. (2010) Rabies DNA vaccine encoding lysosome targeted glycoprotein supplemented with EMULSIGEN D confers complete protection in pre-and post-exposure studies in BALB/c mice. FASEB J.; 24, 173-183.
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2. Garg R, Tripathi D, Kant S, Chandra H, Bhatnagar R., Banerjee N. (2015) The conserved hypothetical protein Rv0574c is required for cell wall integrity, stress tolerance, and virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Infect Immun.;83(1):120-9.
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1. Garhyan J, Bhuyan S, Pulu I, Kalita D, Das B, Bhatnagar R. (2015) Preclinical and Clinical Evidence of Mycobacterium tuberculosisPersistence in the Hypoxic Niche of Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells after Therapy. Am J Pathol.;185(7):1924-34.
