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Niyaz Ahmed

University of Hyderabad, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, National Dairy Research Institute, Nagpur Veterinary College, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics

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Prof. Niyaz Ahmed is an One Health epidemiologist and professor of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics at the University of Hyderabad, India. Prof. Ahmed has contributed pioneering research in the area of Molecular Epidemiology in India, for which he was given the ‘Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize’, India’s foremost Science Prize, in the area of Medical Sciences, in 2016. He also served as the Senior Director at the International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr, b) in an international leadership position from Nov 2016 to March 2020 (UN eq scale D1 step 8). A Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), the Royal Society of Biology (UK) and the National Academy of Sciences India, Prof. Ahmed serves as the founder Editor-in-Chief of Gut Pathogens journal since 2008. In 2017, Dr Ahmed was awarded the Microsoft Azure for Research Award in Public Health to work towards genomics of identification of new genes, new proteins and novel pathways underlying the multiple drug resistance phenotypes in bacteria. Dr Ahmed has earlier received the ‘University of Hyderabad Chancellor’s Award’ from the then Chancellor of the University, Dr C. Rangarajan (the former Governor of the state of Andhra Pradesh and the former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India). He is also the recipient of the ‘National Bioscience Award’ of the Government of India. In March 2022, Prof. Ahmed was profiled in the ’75 under 50 – scientists shaping India’ compendium released by the Indian Government.

Dr Ahmed also holds appointment as Adjunct Professor of the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research. He is the Corresponding Fellow of the European Helicobacter and Microbiota Study Group. In 2011, Prof. Ahmed was invited to the position of Academic Icon Professor in Courtesy at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in a visiting capacity, which he occupied until 2015.

Employment

  • International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Senior Director
    2016 - 2020
  • University of Hyderabad Professor
    2014 - Present
  • University of Hyderabad Chair of the Department
    2014 - 2016
  • University of Hyderabad Associate Professor
    2008 - 2014
  • Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics Staff Scientist
    1998 - 2008

Education

  • National Dairy Research Institute MS Animal Biotechnology
    1995 - 1997
  • Nagpur Veterinary College BVSc & AH (Veterinary Medicine, DVM equivalent)
    1990 - 1995
  • Manipal University PhD

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Publications (197)