Amit Prakash Sharma
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- 2023 CB Sharma Memorial Lecture Award
- 2021 Prof. M.G.K. Menon Lecture Award from National Academy of Sciences, India
- 2019 Lakshmipat Singhania-IIM Lucknow National Leadership Award
- 2018 Om Prakash Bhasin Award
- 2015 Infosys Prize
- 2014 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
- 2009 Goyal prize
- 2007 N-BIOS Prize
- 2007 Prof. Umakant Sinha Memorial Award
- 2007 Dr M. O. T. Iyengar National Science Award
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| Born | April 12, 1968 India |
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Amit Prakash Sharma (born April 12, 1968) is an Indian parasitologist and former director of National Institute of Malaria Research, New Delhi. He is known for his studies on the disease of malaria and is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy, The World Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, India. He has been awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Biological Sciences, JC Bose Fellowship, Ranbaxy Science Research Award, Infosys Science Award in Biological Sciences, Om Prakash Bhasin Award in Biological Sciences and Lakshmipat Singhania- IIM Lucknow National Leadership Award.
Amit Sharma was born on April 12, 1968, in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S. He grew up in New Delhi and attended Delhi Public School, Mathura Road. Later, he went to U.S. for his undergraduate studies to Purdue University, did his master's and PhD at Northwestern University in protein crystallography in 1995. Sharma went on to do his post-doctoral work at St. John's College, Oxford and also served as faculty till 2000. On his return to India in 2004, he joined International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology as a staff scientist. Sharma was the director of National Institute of Malaria Research in New Delhi from 2019 till 2022.
Legacy
Sharma's research is focused in the field of structural parasitology, and he has carried out advanced research in malaria parasite biology.[1] He led the ICGEB group of scientists who collaborated with the researchers from the Broad Institute who discovered a new compound, bicyclic azetidine, which showed potential against the Plasmodium parasite that caused malaria.[2] His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles.[3] PublicationsList, an online repository of scientific articles, has listed several of them.[4] Sharma has delivered keynote or invited speeches at many conferences[5][6] and sits on the editorial board of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India for Section B - Biological Sciences.[7]
