Maharaj Kishan Bhan

Maharaj Kishan Bhan
Born	(1947-11-09) 9 November 1947 Kashmir, India
Residence	India
Nationality	Indian
Fields	Medical Science
Institutions	Department of Biotechnology
Alma mater	Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research

Maharaj Kishan Bhan is an Indian paediatrician and clinical scientist.^[1] He has M.B.B.S. and M.D. Degrees from Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh. He has carried out extensive post doctoral research at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in the areas of diarrhoeal diseases and child nutrition with an emphasis on public health issues. He is currently the president of the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER)^[2]

He is known for developing Rota Viral Vaccine in collaboration with Bharat Biotech International. He was positioned as Secretary, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, until 2012.^[3] Dr. Bhan conceived the newly formed BIRAC, which is expected to result in product development by industry in collaboration with academia. This initiative is to boost product development in the country. For this Dr. Bhan was actively assisted by Drs. Renu Swarup & Ravi Dhar from BIRAC. Besides, these certain luminaries of Indian science like Prof. Padmanabhan, Dr. Chauhan, Prof. Tandon and several others were constantly advising BIRAC. An elected fellow of the National Academy of Medical Sciences,^[4] he was awarded in 1990 the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, in the Medical Sciences category.^[5] He holds honorary Doctor of Science and is responsible for policy formulation and is Member of the Jury for nearly all major national science awards awarded by the Government of India.^[6]

Prizes and honours

Genome Valley Excellence Award — BIO ASIA (2013)^[7]
Padmabhushan for civil services - 2013.^[8]
Pollin Prize for Pediatric Research - 2003
Biotech Product and Process Development and Commercialization Award - 2003
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology - 1990
National Ranbaxy Award - 1990
S.S. Mishra Award of the National Academy of Medical Sciences - 1986
ST Achar Gold Medal of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics - 1984

Research highlights

Public Health

References

↑ "Maharaj Kishan Bhan Aims For a New Bio Culture". Forbes. 4 May 2011. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
↑ "President, JIPMER".
↑ "Shaping Technologies into Real Life Programs". Retrieved 17 August 2012.
↑ "List of Fellows — NAMS" (PDF). National Academy of Medical Sciences. 2016. Retrieved March 19, 2016.
↑ "Full list of winners of the Shanti Swaroop Prize". Retrieved 17 August 2012.
↑ "Speakers Bios". Indian Medtech Summit. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
↑ Padma Bhushan Dr MK Bhan to get Genome Valley Excellence Award today - BioSpectrum Asia
↑ "Padma Awards Announced". Ministry of Home Affairs (India). 25 January 2013. Retrieved 25 January 2013.

Padma Bhushan award recipients (2010–19)

2010	Satya Paul Agarwal Mohammad Amin Sailesh Kumar Bandopadhyay M. S. Banga Anil Bordia Bipan Chandra B. K. Chaturvedi Sant Singh Chatwal G. P. Chopra Tan Chung Madhusudan Dhaky P. R. Dubhashi Puttaraj Gawai Belle Monappa Hegde Ilaiyaraaja Jagdish Chandra Kapur Shrinivas Khale Aamir Khan Sultan Khan Ram Kumar Kumudini Lakhia Kuzhur Narayana Marar Chhannulal Mishra Eledath Thaikkattu Narayanan Mooss C. P. Krishnan Nair S. P. Oswal Akbar Padamsee Ramakanta Panda Balasaheb Vikhe Patil Arogyaswami Paulraj A. R. Rahman Moosa Raza Mallika Sarabhai Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana Abhijit Sen Satya Vrat Shastri Noshir M. Shroff Kushal Pal Singh Bikash Sinha Balagangadharanatha Swamiji Narayanan Vaghul P. K. Warrier Fareed Zakaria

2011	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam Rajashree Birla M. N. Buch C. V. Chandrasekhar Ajai Chowdhry Yogesh Chander Deveshwar Satyadev Dubey T. J. S. George Shankha Ghosh Kris Gopalakrishnan Keki Byramjee Grant Shashi Kapoor Krishen Khanna Khayyam Chanda Kochhar Dwijen Mukhopadhyay Madavoor Vasudevan Nair Ramdas Pai Dashrath Patel Rajendra Singh Pawar Suryanarayanan Ramachandran Shobhana Ranade Gunupati Venkata Krishna Reddy Kallam Anji Reddy Waheeda Rehman Shyam Saran Analjit Singh Arpita Singh Surendra Singh R. K. Srikantan Raghavan Thirumulpad

2012	Suresh H. Advani Shabana Azmi Homi K. Bhabha Shashikumar Chitre Khaled Choudhury Jatin Das Vidya Dehejia Dharmendra S. N. Goenka M. S. Gopalakrishnan T. V. Gopalakrishnan Buddhadev Das Gupta Sunil Janah Anish Kapoor S. B. Mujumdar B. Muthuraman Mira Nair Arvind Panagariya José Pereira Mata Prasad M. S. Raghunathan P. Chandrasekhara Rao Ronen Sen Devi Shetty M. V. Subbiah N. Vittal N. H. Wadia George Yeo

2013	Satya N. Atluri Maharaj Kishan Bhan Jaspal Bhatti Rahul Dravid Adi Godrej S. Janaki Abdul Rashid Khan Rajesh Khanna Mary Kom Nandkishore Shamrao Laud Mangesh Padgaonkar Hemendra Singh Panwar Jogesh Pati Shivajirao Girdhar Patil A. Sivathanu Pillai D. Ramanaidu Kanak Rele V. K. Saraswat Ashoke Sen Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak B. N. Suresh Sharmila Tagore Ramamurthy Thyagarajan Saroja Vaidyanathan

2014	Anisuzzaman Mrityunjay Athreya Padmanabhan Balaram Dalveer Bhandari Ruskin Bond Anita Desai Pullela Gopichand Kamal Haasan Jyeshtharaj Joshi V. N. Kaul Neelam Kler M. Mahadevappa Leander Paes K. Radhakrishnan Anumolu Ramakrishna Thirumalachari Ramasami Lloyd Rudolph Susanne Hoeber Rudolph Vinod Prakash Sharma Ghulam Mohammed Sheikh Parveen Sultana Dhirubhai Thaker Vairamuthu J. S. Verma T. H. Vinayakram

2015	Jahnu Barua Manjul Bhargava Vijay P. Bhatkar Swapan Dasgupta David Frawley Bill Gates Melinda Gates Swami Satyamitranand N. Gopalaswami Subhash C. Kashyap Gokulotsavji Maharaj Saichiro Misumi Ambrish Mithal Sudha Ragunathan Harish Salve Ashok Seth Rajat Sharma Satpal Singh Shivakumara Swami Khadg Singh Valdiya

2016	Ravindra Chandra Bhargava Robert Blackwill Hafeez Contractor Indu Jain Heisnam Kanhailal Anupam Kher Sania Mirza Pallonji Mistry Udit Narayan Saina Nehwal Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad Vinod Rai N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya A. V. Rama Rao D. Nageshwar Reddy Dayananda Saraswati Barjinder Singh Hamdard Ram V. Sutar Tejomayananda

1954–59 1960–69 1970–79 1980–89 1990–99 2000–09 2010–19

Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Medical Science

R.B. Arora (1961) Bal Krishan Anand (1963) N.K.Dutta & V. Ramalingaswami (1965) J.B. Chatterjea & R.J. Vakil (1966) A.K. Basu & M.J. Thirumalachar (1967) S.R. Mukherjee & Uttamchand Khimchand Sheth (1968) S. Kalyanaraman & C.R. Roy (1969) J.R. Talwar (1970) O.M. Gulati & A.K. Maiti (1971) N.R. Moudgal (1976) P.R. Adiga & T. Desiraju (1980) U.C. Chaturvedi (1981) Indira Nath (1983) J.N. Sinha & B.S. Srivastava (1984) D.K. Ganguly (1985) S.S. Agarwal & P. Seth (1986) Maharaj Kishan Bhan (1990) Shashi Wadhwa (1991) U.N. Das & N.K. Mehra (1992) G.P. Pal (1993) K.B. Sainis & Y.D. Sharma (1994) S.K. Panda & A.K. Tyagi (1995) V. Ravindranath & S.K. Sarin (1996) S.K. Gupta & Vijay Kumar (1997) G. Balakrish Nair (1998) C. H. Mohan Rao (1999) Sunil Pradhan (2002) C.S. Dey (2003) C.E. Chitnis (2004) V.S. Sangwan (2006) Pundi Narasimhan Rangarajan (2007) Ravinder Goswami (2008) Santosh Gajanan Honavar (2009) Mitali Mukerji (2010) K. Narayanaswamy Balaji (2011) Pushkar Sharma (2013) Anurag Agrawal (2014) Vidita Ashok Vaidya (2015) Niyaz Ahmed (2016)

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