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G. P. S. Raghava

Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology CSIR, Panjab University Faculty of Science, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

ORCID iD 0000-0002-8902-2876
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Background: Raghava is a professor of computational biology at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Delhi, working since 2017. Before joing IIIT Delhi, he was chief scientist at Bioinformatics Centre, Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH), Chandigarh, India; work for 30 years (1986-2016). He did his MSc Physics from N.A.S. College, Meerut, UP in 1986. Raghava did his MTech from Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.), New Delhi in 1986. In 1996 he received a doctorate in bioinformatics from Institute of Microbial Technology and Panjab University, Chandigarh.

Professional Experience: He worked as Postdoctoral fellow at Oxford university, Oxford and European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge UK (1996-98). Worked as Bioinformatics specialist at UAMS, USA (2002-3 & 2006) where he establish bioinformatics infastructure. Raghava woked as visiting professor at POSTECH, South Korea (2004)

Scientific Contribution: Raghava is a strong suporter of open source software and open access, all resouces develoed at his group are free for scientific use. His group developed more than 250 web servers and 70 databases in the field of computer-aided drug/vaccine design (probably highest number of services developed/maintained from a single group in the world). These services are heavily used by scientific community, nearly 150,000 hits per day. Group published more than 300 research papers in reputed journals with average impact factor around 4. Most of the papers are highly cited, total citations more than 37000 with h-index 98 and g-index 295 as per google scholar. In addition group contributed/maintained number of web sites that include i) CRDD, ii) OSCADD, iii) OSDDlinux, iv) CSIR Informatics Portal, v) GENESIS, vi) GPSR Packages, vii) OSDDchem, viii) Sysborg2, ix) OSDD .

Major Awards/Honours: He got following major national awards/recognition

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Biological Science, 2008
National Bioscience Award for Carrier Development, for year 2005-2006
NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award, 2009;
Thomson Reuters Research Excellence - India Research Front Awards, 2009
Prestigious J. C. Bose National Fellowship by DST, 2010.
Young national leadership award by Lakshmipat Singhania-IIM Lucknow, 2011
Sun Pharma Research Award, 2018
OPPI Scientist Awards of the Year, 2019
Fellow of National Academy of Sciences (F.N.A.Sc)
Fellow of Indian Academy of Science (F.A.Sc.) Banglore.

Employment

  • Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Professor
    2017 - Present
  • Institute of Microbial Technology CSIR Scientist
    1986 - 2017

Education

  • Panjab University Faculty of Science Ph.D.
    1992 - 1996
  • Indian Institute of Technology Delhi M. Tech.
    1984 - 1986

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