Amit Singh (scientist)
Amit Singh is an Indian microbiologist and an associate professor at the department of microbiology and cell biology of the Indian Institute of Science. A Wellcome-DBT Senior Fellow, Singh is known for his studies on the pathogenesis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development  for 2017/18. He was awarded with the prestigious CSIR- Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award on 2021 for his phenomenal contributions in bio-scientific research. He received the 2021 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Biological Science. Biography 

Amit Singh was born on 18 March 1976. He graduated in science from the University of Delhi and earned his master's degree in biotechnology from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in 1998. He then obtained a Ph.D. in 2004 under the guidance of Anil Kumar Tyagi at the South Campus of the University of Delhi, and  moved to the US for post-doctoral training at the laboratory of Adrie JC Steyn of the University of Alabama in Birmingham. On his return to India in 2010, he joined the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology as a Wellcome Trust-DBT intermediate fellow. In January 2014, he joined the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) at their department of microbiology and cell biology where he holds the position of an associate professor. He heads the Centre for Infectious Disease Research as its group leader, hosting several researchers who do research on the fundamental mechanisms of chronic human infections with special focus on Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Singh, has been a Wellcome Trust-DBT senior fellow since 2016. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for 2017/18. 