Vijeshwar Verma
Sri Mata Vaishno Devi University, India
Biography
Vijeshwar Verma has completed his PhD in IIIM (former RRL, Jammu) in 1980. Later the institute offered him the position of Scientist and thus he shifted to the Institute in 1982. He was the pioneer member of the group which started a Genetic Engineering Unit in the institute to undertake research in the fi eld of Recombinant DNA in 1986. Presently, he is the Director of School of Biotechnology and Dean of College of Sciences. He is a renowned Researcher in the fi eld of Microbial Biotechnology and has large number of publications and patents to his name. He is a Fellow of Association of Microbiologists of India and Member of Indian National Science Academy. He has spent a signifi cant part of his career at Indian Institute of Integrated Medicine (formerly Regional Research Laboratory) -CSIR, Jammu. This unit later got christened as Division of Biotechnology of which he was the Chairman at the time of taking VRS in 2007. During this period of about 25 years, he had Post-doc experience in the fi eld of Recombinant DNA, Fermentation and General Molecular Biology in various prestigious laboratories/institutes in Germany, England & France, where he learnt a lot about the subject.