Tej P. Singh

Tej P. Singh (तेज प सिंह) is an eminent Indian biophysicist and a scientific leader who has made original and novel contributions in the fields of Rational Structure based drug design, Protein Structure biology and X-ray crystallography. He has played an active role in the development of research programmes on drug design in the fields of Tuberculosis, Inflammation, Cancer, Epilepsy, Gastropathy and Arthritis in India. He has published more than 350 research papers in leading international journals and has submitted the highest number of protein structures in India in the Protein Data Bank (PDB).

He has mentored more than 70 MSc, PhD, MD and Post-Doc students who are currently independent group leaders in leading scientific institutions in various parts of the country. He has made significant collaborations with other academic institutions as well as industry partners all over the country. He has been nominated as a fellow of six national and international academies, namely, the Third World Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy, National Academy of Sciences, Indian Academy of Sciences, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and Biotech Research Society of India.

He has been awarded various national and international awards over the years, for instance, the Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Lecture Award of INSA (2011), Annual Award of the Instrumentation Society of India (2011), CSIR Foundation Day Lecture award (2010), Goyal Prize in Life Sciences (2007), Professor G.N. Ramachandran CSIR Gold Medal for the Excellence in Biological Sciences and Technology (2006) and, Professor G.N. Ramachandran 60th Birthday Commemoration INSA Medal (2006).