Dr. Ashwani Kumar, Scientist F and Head, Environmental Biotechnology Division of Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (IITR), Lucknow has taken over the charge of Acting Director, IITR on June 13, 2007 from Dr. C.M. Gupta, Director CDRI, who was having additional charge of Director, IITR.

Dr. Ashwani Kumar did his M.Sc. in Biochemistry from Lucknow University in 1976 and Ph.D. (Biochemistry) from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, under the supervision of Prof. G. Padmanaban. The areas of specialization of Dr. Ashwani Kumar are (i) Environmental Biotechnology - Cloning and characterization of degradative genes, bioremediation of soils that are contaminated with chlorinated pesticides and (ii) Toxicogenomics - Microarray based transcription profiling, 2D-PAGE based proteomics, and determination of genetic predisposition in Indian population by discovery of SNPs using RFLP, dHPLC, and capillary sequencing.

Dr. Ashwani Kumar visited NYU School of Medicine, NY, USA during 1980-84 as Post Doctoral Fellow and again during 1988-99 as visiting Scientist. He also visited University of Iowa, USA (January - December, 1994); University of Stuttgart, Germany (June 14-18, 2000); Melbourne, Australia (November 20-21, 2003); Tohoku University, Japan (April 15 to June 14, 2006) and Masaryk University, Czech Republic (October 4-31, 2007).

Dr. Ashwani Kumar has many National and International publications and one Patent to his credit. He is life member of various National and International academic societies and professional bodies.

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Contact Information:
Email: director@iitrindia.org; ashwani26@rediffmail.com
Tel: +91-522-2621856, 2628227, 2613357
Fax: +91-522-2628227, 2611547