Kailash Gupta's Biography

Kailash Gupta, Director, Indian Institute of Toxicology Research

Dr. K.C. Gupta, presently the Director of Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (IITR), Lucknow was earlier acting Director of Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), New Delhi. Dr. Gupta was a recipient of prestigious DAAD Fellowship (Germany, 1982-1984), CSIR-DAAD Exchange Fellowship (1991-1992), Indo-German Exchange Fellowship (2005) Indo-French Exchange Fellowship (1996), Indo-Israel Exchange Fellowship (1998), Indo-Japan Exchange Fellowship (2009-2010) and is a Fellow of National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad. He is a widely traveled scientist and was Visiting Scientist/Professor at several universities/institutes such as University of Marseilly and Paris, France; University of Kiel and Ulm, Germany; Bar-Han University, Israel and RIEKEN, Japan.

Dr. Gupta’s areas of specialization are "bio-organic chemistry, nucleic acid synthesis & design". His current area of research relates to development of nano-particle aided transfection reagents for delivery of genes and their toxicity assessment and development of biochips as diagnostic tools for detection of genetic diseases.

He has published more than 100 research papers in internationally reputed peer reviewed journals and contributed to 10 invited reviews and book chapters. The impact of Dr. Gupta’s work can be judged by >800 citations and he has to his credit 17 patents granted nationally and internationally with successful transfer of 02 technologies to Industries. Dr. Gupta is the member of editorial board of 02 international journals and is serving as Chairman/Member of a number of national and international scientific committees. He has guided 14 students for their Ph.D. programme and an equal number are pursuing their doctoral programme under his guidance.