Amit Singh (scientist) explained

Amit Singh
Birth Place:	India
Known For:	Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesis

Amit Singh is an Indian microbiologist and an associate professor at the department of microbiology and cell biology of the Indian Institute of Science. A Wellcome-DBT Senior Fellow, Singh is known for his studies on the pathogenesis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development for 2017/18. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award in 2021 for his research. He received the 2021 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Biological Science.^[1]

Biography

Amit Singh was born on 18 March 1976.^[2] He graduated in science from the University of Delhi and earned his master's degree in biotechnology from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in 1998.^[3] He then obtained a Ph.D. in 2004 under the guidance of Anil Kumar Tyagi at the South Campus of the University of Delhi and moved to the US for post-doctoral training at the laboratory of Adrie JC Steyn of the University of Alabama in Birmingham.

On his return to India in 2010, he joined the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology as a Wellcome Trust-DBT intermediate fellow. In January 2014, he joined the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) at their department of microbiology and cell biology, where he holds the position of an associate professor.^[4] He heads the Centre for Infectious Disease Research as its group leader,^[5] hosting several researchers^[6] who do research on the mechanisms of chronic human infections with a special focus on Mycobacterium tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).^[7] ^[8]

Singh, has been a Wellcome Trust-DBT senior fellow since 2016.^[9] ^[10] The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development for 2017/18.^[11]

Publications

Most cited articles at University of Alabama

19680450 . 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000545 . 5 . Mycobacterium tuberculosis WhiB3 maintains redox homeostasis by regulating virulence lipid anabolism to modulate macrophage response . 2718811 . 2009 . PLOS Pathog . e1000545 . Singh . A . Crossman . DK . Mai . D . Guidry . L . Voskuil . MI . Renfrow . MB . Steyn . AJ. 8 . free . (Cited by 204 articles according to Google Scholar.)
17609386 . 10.1073/pnas.0700490104 . 104 . Mycobacterium tuberculosis WhiB3 responds to O2 and nitric oxide via its [4Fe-4S] cluster and is essential for nutrient starvation survival . 1906726 . 2007 . Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A . 11562–7 . Singh . A . Guidry . L . Narasimhulu . KV . Mai . D . Trombley . J . Redding . KE . Giles . GI . Lancaster . JR Jr . Steyn . AJ. 28 . 2007PNAS..10411562S . free . (Cited by 154 articles according to Google Scholar.)

Most cited articles at IISc

Ashima Bhaskar, Manbeena Chawla, Mansi Mehta, Pankti Parikh, Pallavi Chandra, Devayani Bhave, Dhiraj Kumar, Kate S Carroll, Amit Singh. Reengineering redox sensitive GFP to measure mycothiol redox potential of Mycobacterium tuberculosis during infection. 2014. PLOS Pathogens. 10:1 e1003902. (Cited by 88 articles according to Google Scholar.)
Rufai SB, Kumar P, Singh A, Prajapati S, Balooni V, Singh S. Comparison of Xpert MTB/RIF with line probe assay for detection of rifampin-monoresistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Journal of clinical microbiology. 2014 June; 52 (6): 1846–52. (Cited by 76 articles according to Google Scholar.)
Chawla M, Parikh P, Saxena A, Munshi M, Mehta M, Mai D, Srivastava AK, Narasimhulu KV, Redding KE, Vashi N, Kumar D. Adrie JC Steyn and Amit Singh. Mycobacterium tuberculosis WhiB4 regulates oxidative stress response to modulate survival and dissemination in vivo. Molecular microbiology. 2012 September; 85 (6): 1148–65. (Cited by 56 articles according to Google Scholar.)

External links

Official home page at IISc

Notes and References

Web site: Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (SSB) for Science and Technology 2021 . sbprize.gov.in . . 26 September 2021.
News: Scientist Amit Singh . Hindi Info World . 26 November 2021.
Web site: Centre for Infectious Disease Research (CIDR). 2019-01-11. cidr.iisc.ernet.in. 2019-01-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20190112150057/http://cidr.iisc.ernet.in/amit/Group-Leader.html. 2019-01-12. dead.
Web site: MCB. 2019-01-11. mcbl.iisc.ac.in. 2019-01-11. 13 January 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190113003823/http://mcbl.iisc.ac.in/Amit-Singh.html. dead.
Web site: Centre for Infectious Disease Research (CIDR) Group Leader. 2019-01-11. cidr.iisc.ernet.in. 2019-01-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20190112150057/http://cidr.iisc.ernet.in/amit/Group-Leader.html. 2019-01-12. dead.
Web site: Centre for Infectious Disease Research (CIDR) fellows. 2019-01-11. cidr.iisc.ac.in. 2019-01-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20180703065827/http://cidr.iisc.ac.in/amit/Postdoctoral-Fellow.html. 3 July 2018. dead.
Web site: Welcome to lab web page of Dr. Amit Singh. 2019-01-11. cidr.iisc.ac.in. 2019-01-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20181004043538/http://cidr.iisc.ac.in/amit/index.html. 4 October 2018. dead.
Bhaskar. Ashima. Chawla. Manbeena. Mehta. Mansi. Parikh. Pankti. Chandra. Pallavi. Bhave. Devayani. Kumar. Dhiraj. Carroll. Kate. Singh. Amit. 2014. Reengineering Redox Sensitive GFP to Measure Mycothiol Redox Potential of Mycobacterium tuberculosis during Infection. PLOS Pathogens. 10. 1. e1003902. 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003902. 3907381. 24497832. free.
Web site: India Alliance - About Fellow. 2019-01-11. www.indiaalliance.org. 2019-01-11.
Web site: Amit Singh Group, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore -- Publication.. 8 May 2019.
Web site: Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development. 2016. Department of Biotechnology. 2017-11-20. 4 March 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180304191331/http://dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/list_of_bioscience_awardees.pdf. dead.