DR. B.S. SRIVASTAVA
 
... Scientist G
Microbiology Division
Central Drug Research Institute
 
Educational qualifications M.Sc., Ph.D.

Date of Birth 1 June 1943
 
AREA OF RESEARCH SPECIALIZATION
 
Microbial & Molecular Genetics
Molecular Biology
Vaccine research, Biotechnology

 
ACADEMIC AWARDS/ HONOURS
 
Sri Om Prakash Bhasin Award, 1995.
"S.S. Bhatnagar Award", 1994, CSIR
Dr. Nitya Anand Endowment Lecture, 1991, INSA.
Y.S. Narayana Rao Oration Award, 1993, ICMR, New Delhi.
Fellow, The National Academy of Sciences, India, 1991.
"B.H.U. Prize" for securing Ist position in M.Sc.
Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology, USA, 1996.
Vigyan Ratna Samman, U P Govt., 2002
 
PUBLICATIONS
 
More than 90 major original publications in referred journals
 
PATENTS
11 National Patents, 1 International Patent

PRESENT AREA OF ACTIVITY
 

Pathogenesis of Virulence Factors of Cholera Bacteria and Biology of Latent Mycobacteria

 
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
 
  Sinha, V.B. and Srivastava, B.S. : Plasmid induced loss of virulence in Vibrio cholerae. Nature (Lond.) 276, 1988, 708.
  Srivastava, R., Khan, A.A. and Srivastava, B.S.: Immunological detection of cloned antigenic genes of Vibrio cholerae in Escherichia coli. Gene, 40, 1985, 267.
  Singh, S.N., Srivastava, R., Sinha, V.B. and Srivastava, B.S. : A 53 kDa protein of Vibrio cholerae classical strain 0395 involved in intestinal colonization. Microbial Pathogenesis 17, 1994, 69.
  Deb, D.K., Srivastava, K.K., Srivastava, R. and Srivastava, B.S. : Bioluminescent Mycobacterium aurum expressing firefly luciferase for rapid and high throughput screening of antimycobacterial drugs in vitro and in infected macrophages. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 279, 2000,457.
  Dev. D.K., Dahiya,P., Srivastava, K.K., Srivastava, R and Srivastava, B.S. : Selective Identification of New Therapeutic Targets of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by IVIAT Approach, Tuberculosis 82, 2002, 175