Brahm Shanker Srivastava

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Brahm Shanker Srivastava (born 1 June 1943) is an Indian microbiologist and inventor. He served as deputy director and head of the Microbiology Division at the Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI). He founded Biotech Research, a not-for-profit organization that promotes biotechnology research, and he is a director of Nextec Lifesciences Private Limited, a biomedical startup.

Srivastava is known for his work in microbial genetics, especially studies on Vibrio cholerae. He developed bacterial mutants with potential use in vaccines and holds a patent for his research. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India and the American Academy of Microbiology.

Education and career: He earned his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from Banaras Hindu University. Much of his academic career was at Jawaharlal Nehru University, where he was a professor and the founder chair of the Centre for Biotechnology. He later headed the Microbiology Division and served as deputy director at CDRI. He also spent time as a visiting faculty member at Brown University, the University of Maryland, the Pasteur Institute of Lille, the University of Ancona, and Mizoram University.

Awards and honors: He received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Medical Sciences in 1984, the Om Prakash Bhasin Award in 1995, and the Government of Uttar Pradesh’s Vigyan Ratna Samman in 2002. He delivered notable lectures, including the INSA Nitya Anand Endowment Lecture in 1991 and the ICMR Dr. Y.S. Narayana Rao Oration in 1993.