Gursaran Prasad Talwar FASc, FAMS, FNASc, FRCOG, FWAAS, DSc, MSc

Gursaran Prasad Talwar received BSc (Hons) and MSc (Tech) degrees from the University of Punjab, DSc from Sorbonne working at the Institut Pasteur, Paris, and DSc (HC) from Bundhelkhand University (2004). He was Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at Tubingen, Stuttgart, and Munchen. He joined as Associate Professor of Biochemistry (1956) in the newly created All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, and also worked there as Professor and Head till 1983. He was Head, of ICMR-WHO Research and Training Centre in Immunology for India and South East Asia (1972-91). He founded and was the first Director of the National Institute of Immunology (NII) (1983-91) and was also a Professor of Eminence till 1994. He was Professor of Eminence and Senior Consultant, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi (1994-99), and Director of Research, Talwar Research Foundation, New Delhi (2000- ). He was Visiting Professor, College de France (1991), Wellcome Professor at Johns Hopkins (1994-95), and Distinguished Professor at the Institute of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, University of Pune (2005-10).