Dr. Anil Kumar

Anil Kumar (born June 18, 1975) is an Indian biologist and IP expert and currently working as scientist in the National Institute of Immunology. He is known for being inventor in more than 50 patents (granted) in the area of biological sciences. Kumar is a young, prolific inventor with a research background for developing biotech-based technologies for industrial and societal benefits. One of his US patents had been selected for CSIR Technology Award 2012 and while other US patent won Merck Millipore India Innovation Award in 2012.

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Dr. Anil Kumar NII

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Education and Career

Kumar received his B.Sc. degree in Life Science in 1998 from Chinmaya Degree College, Haridwar, India and completed M.Sc. (Biotechnology) from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India. He obtained Ph.D degree from Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India. He has been working as scientist at the National Institute of Immunology since 2010. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Research

His area of interest includes Intellectual Property Rights, Biosensor, Bioinformatics, Environmental Biotechnology, and Climate Change. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Databases Developed

• Appobase

 http://appobase.igib.res.in 

• Carbon dioxide utilizing Strain Database

 http://csd.igib.res.in

• Extreme

 http://extrem.igib.res.in

• Biodegradative Opron Database

 http://operon.igib.res.in

• Bioradbase

 http://biorad.igib.res.in

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Awards/ Fellowships

• CSIR Technology Award, 2012
• Merck Millipore India Innovation Award, 2012
• Young Scientist Award’ from IUBMB, 2006
• Young Investigator Award’ from “HUPO 3rd Annual World Congress”, 2004
• Merit Scholarship from Department of Biotechnology during M.Sc. at IIT Roorkee

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Selected Publications

• Majhi MC, Behera AK, Kulshrestha NM, Mahmooduzafar, Kumar R, Kumar A (2013) Extreme: A unified web repository of extremophilic microorganisms PLoSONE, 16;8(5):e63083.
  http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0043527

• Gahoi S, Mandal RS, Ivanisenko N, Shrivastava P, Jain S, Singh AK, Raghunandanan MV, Kanchan S, Taneja B, Mandal C, Ivanisenko VA, Kumar A, Kumar R, Open Source Drug Discovery Consortium, Ramachandran S (2013) Computational Screening for New Inhibitors of M. tuberculosis Mycolyltransferases Antigen 85 Group of Proteins as Potential Drug Targets. J Biomol Struct Dynam 31(1):30-43. doi: 10.1080/07391102.2012.691343.
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22804492

• Kulshreshtha NM, Kumar R, Begum Z, Shivaji S, Kumar A (2013) Exiguobacterium alkaliphilum sp. nov. isolated from alkaline wastewater drained sludge of a beverage industry located in India. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol, ijs.0.039123-0; doi:10.1099/ijs.0.039123-0.
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23838447

• Gupta S, Saxena M, Saini N, Mahmooduzzafar, Kumar R, Kumar A (2012) An Effective Strategy for a Whole-Cell Biosensor Based on Putative Effector Interaction Site of the Regulatory DmpR Protein. PLoSONE 7(8): e43527.
  http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0043527

• Dhall P, Kumar R, Siddiqi TO and Kumar A (2012) Selection of an apt support for immobilization of microbes for developing BOD biosensor Anal. Methods, 2013, DOI: 10.1039/C2AY26208H.
  http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2013/AY/C2AY26208H#!divAbstract

• Saini R, Kapoor R, Kumar R, Siddiqui TO and Kumar A (2011) CO2 utilizing microbes-A comprehensive review. Biotechnol Adv 29(6):949-60.
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0734975011001418

• Joshi S, Bisht GS, Rawat DS, Kumar A, Kumar R, Maiti S and Pasha S (2010) Interaction studies of novel cell selective antimicrobial peptides with model membranes and E. coli ATCC 11775. Biochim Biophys Acta 1798(10):1864-75.
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20599694

• Saini R, Majhi MC, Kapoor R, Kumar A and Kumar R (2009) CSD: A database of CO2 utilizing strains. Environ Model Software 24(9):1133-1134.
  http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1539888

• Dhall P, Kumar A, Joshi A, Saxsena TK, Manoharan A, Makhijani SD, Singh VP and Kumar R (2008) Quick and reliable estimation of BOD load of beverage industrial wastewater by developing BOD biosensor. Sensor Actuator B Chem 133(2):478-483.
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925400508001962

• Bisht GS, Rawat DS, Kumar A, Kumar R and Pasha S (2007) Antimicrobial activity of rationally designed amino terminal modified peptides. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 17(15):4343-4346.
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17553680

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