# Javed Agrewala

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Indian immunologist (born 1961)

Javed Agrewala Born (1961-05-14) 14 May 1961 (age 65) Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India Education Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Sarojini Naidu Medical College Known for Studies on Tuberculosis Awards 2005 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize 2006 N-Bios Prize New Idea Research Talent Award Scientific career Fields Immunology Institutions Indian Institute of Technology Ropar Institute of Microbial Technology Royal Postgraduate Medical School Trudeau Institute

**Javed Naim Agrewala** (born 14 May 1961) is an Indian [immunologist](/source/Immunologist), the prof. at [Indian Institute of Technology Ropar](/source/Indian_Institute_of_Technology_Ropar) and the chief scientist and professor at the [Institute of Microbial Technology](/source/Institute_of_Microbial_Technology), [Chandigarh](/source/Chandigarh). Known for his research on [Tuberculosis](/source/Tuberculosis), Agrewala is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. [National Academy of Sciences, India](/source/National_Academy_of_Sciences%2C_India), [Indian National Science Academy](/source/Indian_National_Science_Academy) and [Indian Academy of Sciences](/source/Indian_Academy_of_Sciences). The [Council of Scientific and Industrial Research](/source/Council_of_Scientific_and_Industrial_Research), the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology](/source/Shanti_Swarup_Bhatnagar_Prize_for_Science_and_Technology), one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Medical Sciences in 2005.[1][note 1] He is also a recipient of the [National Bioscience Award for Career Development](/source/National_Bioscience_Award_for_Career_Development) of the [Department of Biotechnology](/source/Department_of_Biotechnology).

## Biography

Javed N. Agrewala, born on 14 May 1961 in [Agra](/source/Agra) in the Indian state of [Uttar Pradesh](/source/Uttar_Pradesh), graduated in science from [Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University](/source/Dr._Bhimrao_Ambedkar_University) in 1980 and earned a master's degree from the same institution in 1982 after which he did his doctoral studies at [Sarojini Naidu Medical College](/source/Sarojini_Naidu_Medical_College) to secure a PhD in 1986.[2]

## Awards and honors

A Biotechnology Overseas Associate of the Department of Biotechnology and a member of the [American Association of Immunologists](/source/American_Association_of_Immunologists),[3] Agrewala was elected as a fellow of the [National Academy of Sciences, India](/source/National_Academy_of_Sciences%2C_India) in 2004.[4] The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2005.[5] and he received the [National Bioscience Award for Career Development](/source/National_Bioscience_Award_for_Career_Development) of the Department of Biotechnology in 2006.[6] He became an elected fellow of the [Indian National Science Academy](/source/Indian_National_Science_Academy) in 2010[7] and the [Indian Academy of Sciences](/source/Indian_Academy_of_Sciences) in 2015.[8] He also is a recipient of the New Idea Research Talent Award of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.[9]

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Long link – please select award year to see details

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-View_Bhatnagar_Awardees_1-0)** ["View Bhatnagar Awardees"](http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx). Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-215._Javed_N_Agrewala_3-0)** ["215. Javed N Agrewala"](http://indianmuslimlegends.blogspot.ae/2011/08/215-javed-n-agrewala.html). Indian Muslim Legends. 2017.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Faculty_profile_4-0)** ["Faculty profile"](http://www.imtech.res.in/index.php?option=com_chronocontact&chronoformname=scientists&task=detail&cf_id=29&filter=2). Institute of Microbial Technology. 2017.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-NASI_Year_Book_2015_5-0)** ["NASI Year Book 2015"](https://web.archive.org/web/20150806211716/http://www.nasi.org.in/Year%20Book%202015.pdf) (PDF). National Academy of Sciences, India. 2017. Archived from [the original](http://www.nasi.org.in/Year%20Book%202015.pdf) (PDF) on 6 August 2015.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Medical_Sciences_6-0)** ["Medical Sciences"](https://web.archive.org/web/20130224074105/http://www.csir.res.in/External/Heads/career/award/BPRIZE/Medical_SCIENCES.htm). Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2017. Archived from [the original](http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/career/award/BPRIZE/Medical_SCIENCES.htm) on 24 February 2013.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Awardees_of_National_Bioscience_Awards_for_Career_Development_7-0)** ["Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development"](https://web.archive.org/web/20180304191331/http://dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/list_of_bioscience_awardees.pdf) (PDF). Department of Biotechnology. 2017. Archived from [the original](http://dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/list_of_bioscience_awardees.pdf) (PDF) on 4 March 2018. Retrieved 29 March 2017.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-INSA_Year_Book_2016_8-0)** ["INSA Year Book 2016"](https://web.archive.org/web/20161104001952/http://www.insaindia.res.in/pdf/YearBook_2016.pdf) (PDF). Indian National Science Academy. 2017. Archived from [the original](http://www.insaindia.res.in/pdf/YearBook_2016.pdf) (PDF) on 4 November 2016. Retrieved 29 March 2017.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Fellow_profile_9-0)** ["Fellow profile"](http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Agrewala,_Dr_Javed_Naim). Indian Academy of Sciences. 2017.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-National_Bioscienceawards_for_Career_Development_2006_10-0)** ["National Bioscienceawards for Career Development 2006"](http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelcontent.aspx?relid=25775). Public Information Bureau. 2006.

## External links

- Manzoor Ahmad Mir (25 May 2015). [*Developing Costimulatory Molecules for Immunotherapy of Diseases*](https://books.google.com/books?id=xeGoBAAAQBAJ&pg=PR19). Elsevier Science. pp. 19–. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-12-802675-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-12-802675-5).

- ["Eureka with Javed Naim Agrewala"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCANRScxp4M). *[YouTube](/source/YouTube) video*. Rajya Sabha TV. 18 March 2016.

- ["Induction of the activation of innate and adaptive immunity by lipidated peptide vaccine: robust and enduring protective memory Th17 cells against Mycobacterium tuberculosis"](http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lsm/research/divisions/diiid/newsevents/eventrecords/2014/sep/DIIID-Seminar-Dr-Javed-N-Agrewala.aspx). King's College, London. 30 September 2014.

- ["Dr. Javed Naim Agrewala"](https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/profile/910). Vidwan. 2017. p. Profile.

v t e Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Medical Science 1960s R. B. Arora (1961) Bal Krishan Anand (1963) N. K. Dutta (1965) V. Ramalingaswami (1965) J. B. Chatterjea (1966) R.J. Vakil (1966) A. K. Basu (1967) M. J. Thirumalachar (1967) S. R. Mukherjee (1968) Uttamchand Khimchand Sheth (1968) S. Kalyanaraman (1969) Ranjit Roy Chaudhury (1969) 1970s J. R. Talwar (1970) O. M. Gulati (1971) A. K. Maiti (1971) N. R. Moudgal (1976) 1980s P. R. Adiga (1980) T. Desiraju (1980) U. C. Chaturvedi (1981) Indira Nath (1983) J. N. Sinha (1984) B. S. Srivastava (1984) D. K. Ganguly (1985) S. S. Agarwal (1986) P. Seth (1986) 1990s Maharaj Kishan Bhan (1990) Shashi Wadhwa (1991) U. N. Das (1992) N. K. Mehra (1992) G. P. Pal (1993) K. B. Sainis (1994) Y. D. Sharma (1994) S. K. Panda (1995) A. K. Tyagi (1995) V. Ravindranath (1996) S. K. Sarin (1996) S. K. Gupta (1997) Vijay Kumar (1997) G. Balakrish Nair (1998) Ch. Mohan Rao (1999) 2000s Shahid Jameel (2000) Birendra Nath Mallick (2001) Sunil Pradhan (2002) C. S. Dey (2003) Anil Kumar Mandal (2003) C. E. Chitnis (2004) Javed Naim Agrewala (2005) V. S. Sangwan (2006) Pundi Narasimhan Rangarajan (2007) Ravinder Goswami (2008) Santosh G. Honavar (2009) 2010s Mitali Mukerji (2010) K. Narayanaswamy Balaji (2011) Sandip Basu (2012) Pushkar Sharma (2013) Anurag Agrawal (2014) Vidita Ashok Vaidya (2015) Niyaz Ahmed (2016) Amit Dutt (2017) Deepak Gaur (2017) Ganesan Venkatasubramanian (2018) Dhiraj Kumar (2019) Mohammad Javed Ali (2019) 2020s Bushra Ateeq (2020) Ritesh Agarwal (2020) Jeemon Panniyammakal (2021) Rohit Srivastava (2021) Dipyaman Ganguly (2022)

v t e N-BIOS Laureates 1999–2009 1999 Umesh Varshney Kanury Venkata Subba Rao Dinakar Mashnu Salunke Birendra Nath Mallick Akhilesh Kumar Tyagi 2000 P. Pardha Saradhi P. Ananda Kumar K. P. Mohanakumar Madhu Dikshit Anand Kumar Bachhawat Amitabha Mukhopadhyay 2001 Nagendra Kumar Singh Ram Rajasekharan Ram Rajasekharan Pradip K. Chakraborti Akhil Chandra Banerjea Vinod Bhakuni 2002 M. Radhakrishna Pillai Mohammad Islam Khan Rakesh Kumar Jain Anil Grover Santanu Bhattacharya Joyoti Basu Rakesh Aggarwal 2003 Usha Vijayaraghavan Trilochan Mohapatra Sudhanshu Vrati Soniya Nityanand Ramesh Venkata Sonti Gopal Kundu Chinmoy Sankar Dey 2004 Jyoti Prakash Tamang Banwari Lal K. Sekar Narayanaswamy Srinivasan Tapas Kumar Kundu Amita Aggarwal Geeta Kashyap Vemuganti 2005 Rajendra Prasad Roy Sudip Chattopadhyay Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava Apurva Sarin Dulal Panda Saumitra Das 2006 G. Pradeep Kumar Ajay Kumar Parida Pramod P. Wangikar G. Taru Sharma Javed N. Agrewala Kumaravel Somasundaram Sanjeev Galande 2007 T. R. Sharma Snehasikta Swarnakar Srinivasan Ramachandran R. Sowdhamini Ranjan Sen Owais Mohammad G. Dhinakar Raj Bhaskar Saha Amit Prakash Sharma 2008 Rajan Sankaranarayanan Utpal Shashikant Tatu Nihar Ranjan Jana R. Sankararamakrishnan Anuranjan Anand Samit Kumar Nandi S. Ganesh Nagasuma Chandra Sangita Mukhopadhyay Pushkar Sharma 2009 Rajesh Sudhir Gokhale Mohan R. Wani Garikapati Narahari Sastry Ashok M. Raichur Balaji Prakash K. Narayanaswamy Balaji Debasisa Mohanty Sunil Kumar Manna C. Kesavadas

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