Dr Chetan Chitnis, a prominent malaria researcher, awarded Padma Shri

Honored for his contribution to malaria research, Dr Chitnis received the Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award in 2004 and the Infosys Prize in Life Sciences 2010

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New Delhi: Dr Chetan E Chitnis, a prominent malaria researcher, has been awarded the Padma Shri.
Dr Chitnis is currently the head of the Malaria Parasite Biology and Vaccines Unit at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. Earlier, he was the principal investigator of the malaria research group at the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) in New Delhi.
Dr Chitnis received the Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award in 2004 and the Infosys Prize in Life Sciences 2010. He is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (2009) as well as Indian National Science Academy (2014).
Dr Chitnis completed his Master of Science in physics at Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai in 1983. Subsequently, he obtained a Master of Arts in physics from the Rice University in Houston, in 1985.
In 1990, Dr Chitnis completed his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley and conducted postdoctoral research on malaria at the US National Institutes of Health. He returned to India in 1995 where he established a laboratory that combined fundamental and translational malaria research.