JNU professor Gobardhan Das appointed director of IISER Bhopal

NEW DELHI: Gobardhan Das has been appointed as the director of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, IISER, Bhopal. Das has been a member of the Indian Academy of Science, Bengaluru, since 2018.

Before being appointed at the IISER Bhopal, he was employed as professor and chair of Special Centre for Molecular Medicine at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has also served at Methodist Hospital, Houston, USA. He has also served as post-doctoral associate at Yale University, USA.

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He was elected to the Indian Academy of Science under the General Biology section in 2018. He specialises in immunology, infectious diseases, and cell biology. Das is also a fellow of Guha Research Council (GRC), West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology and the National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad.

He holds editorial positions in journals such as PlosOne, Mycobacterial Diseases and Frontiers in Immunology and is a reviewer at Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Experimental Medicine, Journal of Biological Chemistry, and European Journal of Immunology.

He is the third director since the inception of IISER Bhopal which was established in 2008. The institute is ranked 60 in the National Institute Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2023. It is ranked 281-290 in the QS Asia Ranking 2023.