16 Facts About Deepak Gaur

Deepak Gaur was an Indian molecular biologist and professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Deepak Gaur is best known for his work on Plasmodium falciparum, the malaria-causing parasite, and for receiving the N-Bios Prize.

Deepak Gaur earned an honours degree in human biology from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi in 1994 and continued at AIIMS for his master's degree in biotechnology which he received in 1996.

Deepak Gaur did his doctoral studies at the National Institute of Immunology and after securing a PhD in 2001, he joined Jawaharlal Nehru University a post-doctoral work as a visiting fellow.

Deepak Gaur discovered a protein complex on Plasmodium falciparum that enables the parasite to invade red blood cells.

Deepak Gaur's studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and ResearchGate, an online article repository of scientific articles, has listed 40 of them.

Deepak Gaur maintains close research association with such institutions as National Institutes of Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and Barcelona Institute for Global Health and the invited speeches delivered by him include the one at 86th Conference of Society of Biological Chemists held in New Delhi.

In 2015, Deepak Gaur served as a consultant to the United States Agency for International Development and was a member of the Malaria Vaccine Development Program of the organization.

Deepak Gaur has been a member of the program advisory committee of the UNESCO Regional Centre for Biotechnology of UNESCO, as a special invitee.

Deepak Gaur sat in the preliminary interview committee for Rhodes Scholarship in 2014 and was involved in the selection of final round candidates.

Deepak Gaur is involved with the selection of research associates at Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Deepak Gaur, who won the first prize for the best paper in biotechcelence at the national symposium at Anna University in 1995, received the Fellows Award for Research Excellence and the Performance Award of the National Institutes of Health thrice each, the first from 2005 to 2007 and the other, from 2006 to 2008.

Deepak Gaur was awarded the Best Scientist Award for Molecular Biology by the National Academy of Vector Borne Diseases in 2011.

Deepak Gaur received two of the highest Indian science awards; the National Bioscience Award of the Department of Biotechnology in 2014 followed by the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in 2017.

Deepak Gaur was selected as a fellow by Guha Research Conference in 2015 and he received the Visitor's Award for Research of the President of India in 2016, as a member of the Molecular Parasitology Group of Jawaharlal Nehru University which won the award.

In 2018, Deepak Gaur became a laureate of the Asian Scientist 100 by the Asian Scientist.