Anurag Agrawal (medical scientist)

Anurag Agrawal (born 17 February 1972) is an Indian pulmonologist, medical researcher and the director of the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, a CSIR institution. Known for his studies on lung diseases, Agrawal is a senior fellow of the DBT-Wellcome Trust. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Medical Sciences in 2014.[1][note 1] He is also a recipient of the National Bioscience Award for Career Development of the Department of Biotechnology which he received in 2015.

Anurag Agrawal
Born (1972-02-17) 17 February 1972
India
NationalityIndian
Alma mater
Known forStudies on Lung diseases
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions

Biography
AIIMS Delhi

Anurag Agrawal, born on 17 February 1972, joined the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi in 1989 for his MBBS and MD after which he moved to the US for his residency at the Baylor College of Medicine where he also worked as a fellow at the Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care and as an assistant professor.[2] In 2004, he enrolled for his doctoral studies at the Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute of the University of Delhi from where he secured a PhD in 2007. Subsequently, he joined the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB) of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and serves as the director.[3]

Agrawal's research covers the fields of lung diseases, asthma and functional issues related to mitochondria and he is credited with establishing a functional link between the three diseases, thereby elucidating how stem cells donated mitochondrial cells to human lung cells that had turned dysfunctional.[4] He heads the lab on Respiratory Disease Biology in IGIB and is involved in translational research on disorders such as obesity, asthma and diabetes.[5] His studies have been documented in a number of articles;[note 2] Google Scholar and ResearchGate, online repositories of scientific articles, have listed 161[6] and 220 of them respectively.[7]

Awards and honors

Agrawal received the Lady Tata Young Researcher Award in 2010,[3] the same year as he was selected for the Swarnajayanthi fellowship of the Department of Biotechnology.[8] The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2014.[9] A year later, he received the National Bioscience Award for Career Development for the year 2015.[10] He is also a recipient of the senior fellowship of the Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance.[2]

Selected bibliography
  • Mabalirajan, Ulaganathan; Agrawal, Anurag; Ghosh, Balaram (3 January 2012). "15-Lipoxygenase eicosanoids are the putative ligands for vanilloid receptors and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs)". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109 (1): E1. Bibcode:2012PNAS..109E...1M. doi:10.1073/pnas.1118477109. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 3252933. PMID 22207620.
  • Aich, Jyotirmoi; Mabalirajan, Ulaganathan; Ahmad, Tanveer; Agrawal, Anurag; Ghosh, Balaram (6 June 2012). "Loss-of-function of inositol polyphosphate-4-phosphatase reversibly increases the severity of allergic airway inflammation". Nature Communications. 3: 877. Bibcode:2012NatCo...3..877A. doi:10.1038/ncomms1880. PMID 22673904.
  • Sinha, A.; Krishnan, V.; Sethi, T.; Roy, S.; Ghosh, B.; Lodha, R.; Kabra, S.; Agrawal, A. (1 February 2012). "Metabolomic signatures in nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of exhaled breath condensate identify asthma". European Respiratory Journal. 39 (2): 500–502. doi:10.1183/09031936.00047711. ISSN 0903-1936. PMID 22298617.

See also

Notes
  1. Long link - please select award year to see details
  2. Please see Selected bibliography section

References
  1. "View Bhatnagar Awardees". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  2. "Wellcome DBT - View Main - Profile". www.wellcomedbt.org. 5 January 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  3. "Dr. Anurag Agrawal Director CSIR-IGIB". www.igib.res.in. 5 January 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  4. "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 5 January 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  5. "Anurag Agrawal - Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR)". www.igib.res.in. 5 January 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  6. "On Google Scholar". Google Scholar. 1 January 2018. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  7. "On ResearchGate". 1 January 2018. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  8. "Swarna Jayanthi Fellowship" (PDF). Department of Science and Technology. 5 January 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  9. "Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners" (PDF). Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 17 October 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
  10. "Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development" (PDF). Department of Biotechnology. 2016. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
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