Prati Pal Singh
Stanford UniversityUSA
Dr. Prati Pal Singh,
Mobile: 09417196015
E-mail:
drppsingh2005@gmail.com
Professor
Prati Pal Singh, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and
Research (NIPER), S. A. S Nagar, India, got his B. Sc. (1973) and M.
Sc. (1975) degrees from The University of Lucknow, Lucknow. For his Ph.
D. degree, he worked at the Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow and
got the degree from Kanpur University, Kanpur (1980). Prof. Singh did
his postdoctoral research work at The Ohio State University, Columbus,
Ohio, USA (1984-85) and at a very prestigious institution, The Stanford
University, Stanford, Palo Alto, California, USA (1986). He was a
visiting fellow at the Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Canada
(1985).Prof. Singh is a renowned molecular biologist, immunologist and
neuroimmunopharmacologist. He conceptualized and reported that opiate
class of drugs can be used for the treatment of parasitic and microbial
infections.Prof. Singh has made some very important contributions to
control and treatment of parasitic and microbial diseases like malaria,
tuberculosis, leishmaniasis, amoebiasis and trichomoniasis. He has 202
publicationsincluding one in NatureMedicine, and 9 patents including one
US patent. Prof. Singh is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of
Parasitic Diseases and an Editorial Board Member of a US journal,
Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology. Prof. Singh was elected Fellow of
the National Academy of Sciences, India (2004) for his work on
“biotechnology, parasitology and neuroimmunomodulation”, and Fellow of
Association of Microbiologists ofIndia (2008). Prof. Singh has been
awarded the prestigious TulasbaiSomani Educational Trust Award (1992) of
the Indian Academy of Neurosciences. Prof. Singh has been awarded huge
grant funds from Government of India for his researches on malaria,
tuberculosis and leishmaniasis over the last two decades. He is a
co-investigator in an Indo-European Union Seventh Framework Programme
(2008) to discover new drugs for tuberculosis. He has been invited for
lectures/meetings in USA, Switzerland, France, Italy, Belgium, Germany,
China and UK. Prof. Singh was awarded The Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation Global Health Award in 2008 to present his malaria immunology
work in a Keystone Symposium, Austria. In the year 2006, National
Institute on Drug Abuse, USA awarded Prof. Singh a travel award to
present his work on neuroimmunomodulation in leishmanisis at Santa Fe,
NM, USA. Prof. Singh is a Member, IBCs Leading Health Professional of
the World – 2015. He is the Nodal Officer of NIPER, Raebareli,and has
been the Member/Chairman of high-powered Scientific Advisory
Committees/sub-committees and selection committees of the institutes of
Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi.
Research Interest
Broad area of specialization: Pharmaceutical Sciences.Areas of specialization: Parasitic andmicrobial infections (mainly tuberculosis, malaria, leishmaniasis, amoebiasis and trichmoniasis): new drug discovery, bioimmunotherapy, vaccination and pathogenesis; pharmacology, neuroimmunomodulation, biotechnology, forensic biotechnology, toxicology, and science administration, and communication/editing.
links
https://www.facebook.com/pratipal.singh.9887
https://in.linkedin.com/in/dr-prati-pal-singh-5b664441
Experience
Postdoctoral Research Associate
The Ohio State University
Innate immunity, acute-phase reactant bilogy, immunogenetics, genetic basis of host resistance and susceptibilty
Education
Lucknow University/Kanpur University
M. Sc./Ph. D., Parasitic diseases/malaria
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