Mathur

Biography

Dr. Premendu P. Mathur, Professor & Head, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Center Head, Center for Bioinformatics (Centre of Excellence), Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, received his Ph.D. (1980) from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He received his postdoctoral training at The Population Council, The Rockefeller University, New York (1985-87) as a Rockefeller Foundation Special Fellowship Awardee. Subsequently he received Rockefeller Foundation Biotechnology Career Award (1992-94). He also received INSA-DFG Fellowship Award to visit Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Muenster, Germany. Dr Mathur has mentored several M.Phil. and Ph.D. students. He is the Regional Coordinator (Asia) of the Asian Journal of Andrology (Nature Publishing Group) and has been nominated on the Editorial Board of newly launched journal, Spermatogenesis (Landes Bioscience). He has been acting as Ad hoc reviewer for several national and international journals in reproduction and toxicology. He has published more than 90 research papers and chapters in Indian and foreign journals and books. Dr. Mathur is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Medical Sciences, India. He has received Dr. P.N. Shah Memorial US Vitamin (India) Oration Award of the Endocrine Society of India in 2002 Prof. Mathur is serving on the Committee on Reproduction and the Environment of the Society for the Study of Reproduction, USA. (2008-10) and is an Elected member of the Executive Council of the Indian Science Congress Association (2008-10). He was Vice-Chairman of Scientific Committee of Third Asia-Pacific Forum on Andrology, China, 2009.

Research Interest

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology