page_title: Asad Ullah Khan
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Asad Ullah Khan / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Babe Seyad gate of AMU
context_page_description: Asad Ullah Khan is an Indian microbiologist, biochemist and a professor at the Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit of the Aligarh Muslim University. He is known for his studies on multidrug resistant clinical strains as well as for the first sighting in India of Aligarh super bug, a variant of New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase 1. He is an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Biotech Research Society, India and the Indian Academy of Microbiological Sciences. 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 2012.
context_section_description: Dr. Asad Ullah Khan did his undergraduate studies in chemistry and post-graduate studies in biotechnology at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) after which he pursued his doctoral studies at the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi to secure a PhD in biochemistry from Aligarh Muslim University. He started his career as a lecturer at AMU in 1997 and during his career there, he did his post-doctoral studies at Rutgers University during 2000–03. He returned to India to resume his career at AMU where he holds the position of a professor and the coordinator of the Biotechnology Unit.
caption: Entrance to Aligarh Muslim University
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