IIT Ropar professor conferred with senior scientist award
Bahadurjeet Singh/Rupnagar
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT )Ropar professor, Javed N Agrewala, from the Department of Biomedical Engineering has been honored with a highly prestigious award “Senior Scientist Award” during the 49th meeting of the “Indian Immunology Society”, at the PGI, Chandigarh for his contributions in the field of Immunology and Vaccines.
This award is highly competitive and decided among nominees from all over India based on their overall scientific contributions in the field of Immunology as documented by the quality of publications and citation index of the research papers.
For the past several years, Dr. Javed’s group is trying to understand the immune response against TB bacteria in the TB-endemic population, where the BCG vaccine has failed. He has developed a vaccine against TB, which is soon going for clinical trials. This vaccine has been generated keeping in consideration of shortcomings associated with the BCG vaccine. Therefore, Dr. Javed vaccine will help in controlling TB where the BCG vaccine has been unsuccessful to protect against TB.
Dr. Javed is also the recipient of India’s highest honour in science the “Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar” award, JC Bose Fellowship and is the Fellow of all the three science academies of the country “Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Science and National Academy of Science India. After joining IIT Ropar in 2018, Dr. Javed has also initiated research on developing vaccines against drug addiction to counter the problem being encountered by the entire country and in particular the state of Punjab.
November 28,2022
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