E. A. Siddiq was born in 1937 in Ilayangudi, Small Town in Sivaganga District , TamilNadu , India [REF].
In 1997 Siddiq was honored as the National Professor of ICAR and in 2002,[REF][REF][REF] he took charge of the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD) as the Distinguished Chair [REF].