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{{Infobox scientist
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1958|10|1}}
| birth_place = India
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| residence = India
| nationality = [[Indian nationality|Indian]]
| fields = {{ublist | [[Genetics]] | [[Biochemistry]] }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali|IISER Mohali]] }}
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[IIT Kanpur]]
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| known_for = Studies on microbial genetics
| awards = {{ublist| 2000 [[National Bioscience Award for Career Development|N-BIOS Prize]] }}
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'''Anand Kumar Bachhawat''' (born 1 October 1958) is an Indian geneticist, biochemist, professor in biological sciences and the dean of faculty at the [[Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali]].<ref name="Anand Kumar Bachhawat - Professor in Biological Sciences and Dean Faculty">{{Cite web |url=http://14.139.227.202/faculty/anandb/index.php/contact |title=Anand Kumar Bachhawat - Professor in Biological Sciences and Dean Faculty |date=2017-11-24 |website=IISER Mohali |access-date=2017-11-24}}</ref> Known for his studies on microbial genetics,<ref name="Indian fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail/P12-1566 |title=Indian fellow |date=2017-10-21 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=2017-10-22}}</ref> Bachhawat is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies namely [[Indian Academy of Sciences]],<ref name="Fellow profile">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Bachhawat,_Dr_Anand_Kumar |title=Fellow profile |date=2017-11-12 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |access-date=2017-11-12}}</ref> [[National Academy of Sciences, India]]<ref name="NASI fellows">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=B |title=NASI fellows |date=2017-11-12 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India |access-date=2017-11-12}}</ref> and [[Indian National Science Academy]].<ref name="INSA Year Book 2016">{{Cite web |url=http://www.insaindia.res.in/pdf/YearBook_2016.pdf |title=INSA Year Book 2016 |date=2017-11-24 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=2017-11-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104001952/http://www.insaindia.res.in/pdf/YearBook_2016.pdf |archive-date=4 November 2016 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

Bachhawat, an alumnus of the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur]] from where he secured a PhD,<ref name="Dr Anand Kumar Bachhawat on Vidwan">{{Cite web |url=https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/profile/42961 |title=Dr Anand Kumar Bachhawat on Vidwan |date=2017-11-24 |website=Vidwan |access-date=2017-11-24}}</ref> heads the Bachawat Lab at the Department of Biological Sciences of IISER Mohali.<ref name="Department of Biological Sciences">{{Cite web |url=http://14.139.227.202/faculty/anandb/ |title=Department of Biological Sciences |date=2017-11-24 |website=IISER Mohali |access-date=2017-11-24}}</ref> His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles<ref name="On ResearchGate">{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/10460202_Anand_Kumar_Bachhawat |title=On ResearchGate |date=2017-11-23 |access-date=2017-11-23}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} and the online repository of scientific articles of the Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 29 of them.<ref name="Browse by Fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Bachhawat=3AAnand_Kumar=3A=3A.html |title=Browse by Fellow |date=2017-11-21 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |access-date=2017-11-21}}</ref> He also holds patents for the biochemical processes he has developed.<ref name="Patents by Inventor Anand Kumar Bachhawat">{{Cite web |url=https://patents.justia.com/inventor/anand-kumar-bachhawat |title=Patents by Inventor Anand Kumar Bachhawat |date=2017-11-24 |website=Justia Patents |access-date=2017-11-24}}</ref> 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 his contributions to biosciences in 2000.<ref name="Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development">{{Cite web |url=http://dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/list_of_bioscience_awardees.pdf |title=Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development |date=2016 |publisher=Department of Biotechnology |access-date=2017-11-20}}</ref>

== Selected bibliography ==
=== Chapters ===
* {{cite book|author1=Iqbal Ahmad|author2=Mohammad Owais, Mohammed Shahid, Farrukh Aqil (editors)|author3=Anand Kumar Bachhawat, Anil Kumar Yadav (chapter authors)|title=Combating Fungal Infections: Problems and Remedy|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lXlXSEzuicwC&pg=PA327|date=3 August 2010|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-642-12173-9|pages=327–|chapter=Metabolic Pathways as Drug Targets: Targeting the Sulphur Assimilatory Pathways of Yeast and Fungi for Novel Drug Discovery}}

=== Articles ===
* {{Cite journal |last=Anup Arunrao Deshpande1, Muskan Bhatia1, Sunil Laxman, Anand Kumar Bachhawat |title=Thiol trapping and metabolic redistribution of sulfur metabolites enable cells to overcome cysteine overload |journal=Microbial Cell |publication-date=2017 |volume=4 |issue=4 |pages=112–126 |doi=10.15698/mic2017.04.567|pmc=5376351 |pmid=28435838 |year=2017}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Amandeep Kaur, Ruchi Gautam, Ritika Srivastava, Avinash Chandel, Akhilesh Kumar, Subramanian Karthikeyan, Anand Kumar Bachhawat |title=ChaC2: An Enzyme for Slow Turnover of Cytosolic Glutathione |journal=Journal of Biological Chemistry |publication-date=2016|doi=10.1074/jbc.M116.727479|pmc=5241738 |pmid=27913623 |volume=292 |year=2017 |issue=2 |pages=638–651|doi-access=free }}
* {{Cite journal |last=Shailesh Kumar, Hariom Kushwaha, Anand Kumar Bachhawat, Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava, Kaliannan Ganesan |title=Genome Sequence of the Oleaginous Red Yeast Rhodosporidium toruloides MTCC 457 |journal=Eukaryot Cell |publication-date=2012 |volume=11 |issue=8 |pages=1083–1084 |doi=10.1128/EC.00156-12|pmc=3416060 |pmid=22858828 |year=2012}}

== See also ==
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* [[Isoprene|Isoprenoids]]
* [[Carotenoid]]
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{{portal|India}}

== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Cite web |url=http://www.iisermohali.ac.in/faculty/dbs/dr-a-k-bachhawat |title=A.K.Bachhawat - Faculty profie |date=2017-11-25 |website=IISER Mohali |access-date=2017-11-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201031011/http://www.iisermohali.ac.in/faculty/dbs/dr-a-k-bachhawat |archive-date=1 December 2017 |url-status=dead }}

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[[Category:N-BIOS Prize recipients]]
[[Category:Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research faculty]]
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[[Category:Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences]]
[[Category:Fellows of The National Academy of Sciences, India]]
[[Category:Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy]]
[[Category:1958 births]]
[[Category:IIT Kanpur alumni]]
[[Category:Indian biochemists]]
[[Category:Indian geneticists]]

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