Journal of Advanced Biological Research

Biography

Bechan Sharma is presently working as a senior Professor and Dean, Faculty of Science, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India. He has completed his higher education (B.Sc. (Honours)-1980; M.Sc. (Biochemistry)-1982, Ph.D. in Biochemistry (1988)) from BHU-Varanasi and CSIR-CDRI, Lucknow, India. His research interests include Molecular Virology (HIV/AIDS), Free radical Biology, Tropical Diseases (Filariasis/Malaria), Enzyme technology, Drug development and Biochemical Toxicology. He has received number of Awards/ Honors and successfully completed numerous important Academic/ Administrative Assignments. He has 36 years of teaching and 40 years of research experience. He has carried out several research projects and published over 251 research papers including book chapters, molecular methods in peer reviewed International and National Journals of repute. He has one US patent on HIV-1 genome structure based antiHIV-1 drugs design to his credit. He has supervised 22 PhDs and 7 PDFs. He is member/life member of several national/international scientific societies and attended numerous symposia/conferences in India and abroad. He is Chief-Editor and Member Editorial Board of over 150 peer-reviewed International Journals. He is an honorary reviewer for over 200 International scientific journals. His 7 books have been published by international publishers. He has worked as a visiting scientist in USA for four years and visited different reputed institutions at Italy, France, Iran, Thailand, Hong Kong, Japan, Germany and Brazil to complete collaborative research projects on various aspects of HIV/AIDS and Drug resistance, molecular epidemiology and drug development. His services to the community in this area has been commendable. Through organizing several conferences and doing outreach activities, he has been successfully transmitting information among the community people in order to save them from contracting infection. He has been instrumental in eradicating the stigma attached to this disease.  Prof. Sharma has been awarded by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) a Senior Scientist Fellowship 2014-15 in Biomedical Sciences under Indo-USA joint research programme to work at NIEHS-NIH, NC, USA with Prof. Samuel Wilson on DNA repair. Recently Prof. Sharma has been included as a Life Member in the World Virology Society-Sweden and in an Indo-Japanese research initiative towards eradication of HIV/AIDS in India.  Prof. B. Sharma is a Fellow of Academy of Environmental Biology (AEB), Bioved Research Society (BRS) and Asian Biological Research Society (ABRS).

Research Interest

His research interests include Molecular Virology (HIV/AIDS), Free radical Biology, Tropical Diseases (Filariasis/Malaria), Enzyme technology, Drug development and Biochemical Toxicology