number of international companies such as Amersham-Pharmacia, Sigma Chemical Co., Pierce Corporation, Bangalore Genei, Datascope Corp., and Shantha Biotechniques Pvt. Ltd. He has about 19 national and international patents. Surolia has published about 360 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals of high impact factor. He has an h-index of 41 and his publications have been cited over 5000 times. Fellowships and memberships Surolia is a member of: Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Trieste, Italy and International Molecular Biologists Network. He is a fellow of all the science academies in the country- National Science Academy, Indian National Science Academy and Indian Academy of Sciences. He was a member of the Board of Trustees, Human Frontier Scientific Programme (HFSP, Strasbourg). He is the only Indian member of the International Glycoconjugate Organization since 1998 and served as its president from 2001 to 2004. He has been a visiting scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Maryland and University of Michigan, USA. He has chaired a number of Study sections of Department of Biotechnology, Department of Science and Technology and CSIR (India) and continues to advise a number of Institutions and Academic bodies in India and abroad. He is currently Bhatnagar Fellow of CSIR (India), was a JC Bose Fellow of DST (India), Honorary Professor, Indian Institute of Science, and member executive committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB). He is in the editorial advisory board of IUBMB-Life and PLoS ONE. He has served as an editor of the Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy from 1998 to 2001. He is an editorial board member of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (India) and the Indian Journal of Biotechnology. Awards Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Lecture (2008)., B.K. Bachhawat Memorial Award 2007, J.C.Bose Fellowship (2006), Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Centenary Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research (2003), Goyal Prize in the area of Life Sciences (2002), TWAS Prize in Biology (2001), Professor GN Ramachandran 60th Birthday Commemoration Medal (2000), Alumni Award (IISc, 1999), Ranbaxy Science Foundation Award in Basic Medical Sciences (1995), Shri Om Prakhash Bhasin Award for Biotechnology (1993), FICCI award for outstanding research in Biological Sciences (1993), W.H. Stillmark Prize (Honorary) for outstanding research contributions on lectins (1990), S.S. Bhatnagar Award for Outstanding Research in Biological Sciences (1987), INSA Young Scientist Medal (1976) References External links 1947 births 20th-century Indian biologists People from Ajmer district University