18 Facts About Shahid Jameel

Shahid Jameel was born on 8 August 1957 and is an Indian virologist and academic.

Dr Jameel is the Sultan Qaboos bin Said Fellow at Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and Research Fellow, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford.

Shahid Jameel serves as the Principal Investigator for the Centre's project on Public Health, Science and Technology in Muslim societies.

Shahid Jameel was formerly head of the scientific advisory group to the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortia established in December 2020, and the chief executive officer of Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance.

Shahid Jameel was born on 8 August 1957 in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh to Abdul Majid Siddiqui, a medical academic, and his wife Jameela Aleem.

Shahid Jameel obtained a BSc degree from Aligarh Muslim University in 1977 and an MSc degree in chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1979.

Shahid Jameel did his doctoral studies at Washington State University where he received his PhD degree in biochemistry in 1984.

Shahid Jameel performed his postdoctoral work on molecular virology at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology of University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.

Shahid Jameel's stay there lasted a year and on his return to India in 1988, he joined International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology where he established the Virology Research Group.

Shahid Jameel continued his research at ICGEB as a senior scientist and the head of the virology research group for around 25 years.

Shahid Jameel was short listed as one of the five choices for the post of the vice chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University in January 2017 and remained in contention when the list was later shortened to three by AMU Court.

Shahid Jameel elucidated the structure of the viruses as well as their functions which are reported to be useful in developing diagnostic and prophylactic protocols.

Shahid Jameel's group identified that HIV-1 subtype C is the most prevalent form of infection in India and he continues his work focusing on HIV accessory proteins, HIV co-receptor dynamics, hepatitis B, X and SARS virus 3a proteins.

Shahid Jameel headed the group which worked on the development of vaccines for HIV-1 subtype C, a project funded jointly by ICGEB and National Institutes of Health.

Shahid Jameel's research has been documented and cited in texts and articles and he has contributed chapters to books published by others.

Shahid Jameel sits in the Court of the Aligarh Muslim University, having nominated to the governing body of the university in August 2016.

Shahid Jameel has served as the editor of medical section of VirusDisease journal of Springer and is a former member of the editorial boards of Journal of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Journal of Biosciences and Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy.

Shahid Jameel has delivered keynote addresses or invited speeches which included the Sir Syed Day Celebration 2016 in Chicago and is a designated speaker at the National Conference on Biotechnology and Environment to be held at Jamia Millia Islamia in August 2017.