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Ram Vishwakarma is an Indian academician who served as the director of CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Jammu from 2009 to 2020. He succeeded Dr. G.N. Qazi and was succeeded by Dr. D. Srinivasa Reddy.

Career
Ram Vishwakarma obtained his Ph.D in medicinal chemistry from CDRI Lucknow in 1987 and did his Post-doctoral studies at the Cambridge University, England (with Sir Alan Battersby FRS on biosynthesis of Vitamin B12 and related corrins and porphyrins) from 1991 to 1993. He has over 30 years of experience (both in National Institutions and the Pharmaceutical Industry) in drug discovery, medicinal chemistry, natural-products chemistry, organic-synthesis, chemical-biology, glycobiology and medicinal & aromatic plants. Presently he is a CSIR Distinguished Scientist: Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi and Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow (2021 onwards)

Recognition and Professional Associations

 * Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences of India
 * Sun Pharma (Ranbaxy) Research Award for Pharmaceutical Sciences (2015)
 * Member of the Governing Body of the CSIR (2018-2020)
 * Member of the CSIR Society; the highest body of the CSIR (2018-2020)
 * Member of the International Editorial Advisory Board of “Journal of Medicinal Chemistry” of the American Chemical Society
 * SFE-Zandu Award 2016 for significant contributions in Natural Products Chemistry
 * IASTAM Award (2018) in the field of Natural Products
 * International Consultant for a World Bank Project in Vietnam (Vietnam Inclusive Innovation Project) for setting up WHO cGMP and Clinical Trials Center (2015 onwards)
 * Outstanding Professor (Chemical Sciences) of Academy of Scientific & Industrial Research
 * Member of the Board of Directors of Biotech Consortium India Lilited (BCIL) of the Department of Biotechnology (Govt. of India)
 * Chairman of the Task Force on “Translational Research for Products & Processes from Medicinal and Aromatic plants” of the Department of Biotechnology (Govt. of India) (2014 onwards)
 * Member of the Task Force of “Public health including food and nutritional interventions” of the Department of Biotechnology (Govt. of India) (2014-2017)
 * Member of Expert Committee on Drugs & Pharmaceuticals Research Program of the Department of Science and Technology (Govt. of India) (2014-2017)
 * Member of the Expert Committee on Medicinal Plants of the National Biodiversity Authority of Govt of India (2015-2017)
 * Member of the Scientific Advisory Group of ICMR, New Delhi (2018 onwards)
 * Chairman of the Sientific Advisory Committee of the IBSD Imphal DBT (2015-2018)
 * Member of Governing Body of IBSD Imphal (DBT, Govt.of India) (2015-2018)
 * Member of Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (Govt. of India) (2009-2011)
 * Member of the High Power Committee of NMITLI program of CSIR (2009-11)
 * Member Program Advisory Committee (Organic-Chemistry) of the Department of Science and Technology (Govt. of India) (2004-2012)
 * Member of Task Force (Plant Biotechnology) of the Department of Biotechnology (Govt. of India) (2008-2012)
 * Member of Research Councils of CSIR labs (IGIB New Delhi, CDRI Lucknow, IHBT Palampur, CIMAP Lucknow, IICB Calcutta, IICT Hyderabad, NEIST Jorhat)


 * Member of Program Advisory Committee (Bio-prospecting & Molecular-Taxonomy) of the Department of Biotechnology (Govt. of India) (2003-2005)
 * Member of the Court of the Central University of Jammu (2012 onwards)
 * Member of the Executive Committee of the Central University of Kashmir (2012 onwards)
 * Member of the Finance Committee of the Central University of Kashmir (2012 onwards)
 * Member of the Editorial Board of “Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. India” (Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi (2011 onwards)
 * Over 100 Plenary/Invited lectures at various International and National scientific & business conferences
 * Invited lecture at the Gordon Research Conference (Glycobiology) in USA (2005)
 * Bronze Medal of the Chemical Research Society of India, Bangalore (2005)
 * Grant-reviewer for American (NSF), British (Welcome-Trust) and Indian (DBT, DST and CSIR) national funding agencies
 * BOYSCAST-Fellowship of DST (Govt. of India) for the Chemical Sciences (1991-1993)
 * A number of Ph.D. students supervised both in chemistry and biology (recognized as Ph.D. guide of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, JNU, New Delhi and the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, New Delhi)

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 * Visiting Scientist (1991-1993) at Cambridge University, England
 * Visiting Scientist (1996) at the Institute Armand-Frappier, University of Quebec, Canada
 * Visiting Scientist (2000-2001) at Virginia Tech University Blacksburg USA
 * Visiting Professor (2020) at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
 * Visiting Distinguished Profesor (2021 at Sharda University, Greater Noida

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