Yashpal Singh Malik

Yashpal Singh Malik (born 14 October 1973) is an Indian virologist and the Dean, College of Animal Biotechnology, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU). Malik earlier served as ICAR-National Fellow at Indian Veterinary Research Institute (ICAR-IVRI).
He has contributed in viral disease epidemiology, virus-host interactions, microbial biodiversity, characterization and diagnosis of animal pathogens. He has worked on coronaviruses, Japanese encephalitis virus, rotavirus and many other zoonotic viruses. Malik is serving the World Society for Virology as Secretary and Indian Virological Society as Secretary General. International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) appointed Malik as member of the Birnaviridae and Picobirnaviridae study group in 2017.
== Biography ==
Born 14 October 1973, Malik completed his bachelor’s degree in Veterinary and Animal Sciences from Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University in 1995 and post-graduate studies in the field of Virology in 1997 and PhD in 2000. He joined the Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI) as National Fellow from 2014-2020 and then Dean, College of Animal Biotechnology, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU).
Malik did his postdoctoral research in Molecular Virology at University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, USA (2001-2002). He acquired advanced training in Molecular Virology from University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, USA (2005), Division of Virology, Ontario Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (2013), and Wuhan Institute of Virology, China (2019).
Malik has two National patents to his credit. He has authored several reference books of reputed publishers including ICAR, Elsevier, and Springer Nature. He has published a number of scientific research articles. Malik has supervised a dozen of Ph.D. and Master’s degree students for their thesis research. Malik has been the Associate Editor of Frontiers in Microbiology and Frontiers in Veterinary Sciences. He has edited special issues of Springer’s journal VirusDisease on “Enteric Viral infections in Humans and Animals”, “Therapeutic Advances and their Biomedical Perspectives” a special issue for Journal of Current Drug Metabolism, and in the event of COVID, Malik compiled a special issue “Special Focus on SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19: advances in developing vaccines and immunotherapeutics” for “Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics” Journal 2020: Vol 16(12). Prof Malik has published a research topic on "Emerging Zoonoses and Transboundary Infections" for Frontiers in Veterinary Sciences and now contributing a research topic on "Coronaviruses from the One Health Perspective" for Frontiers in Microbiology.
Malik is involved in the boards of the following professional societies:
* Secretary General of the Indian Virological Society
* Secretary of the World Society for Virology
* Joint Secretary of the Indian Society of Veterinary Immunology and Biotechnology
* Joint Secretary of the Indian Association of Veterinary Microbiologists, Immunologists and Specialists of Infectious Diseases
* FAVA Sub-Committee Member
==Awards and honours==
Malik is recipient of several prestigious awards/honours including 
* ICAR-Jawaharlal Nehru Award (2001)
* Young Scientist Award of the Association of Microbiologists of India (2000)
* Young Scientist Award of the Uttarakhand Council of Science and Technology (2010)
* Fellow of the National Academy of Biological Sciences 
* Fellow of the Academy of Microbiological Sciences
* Associate Fellowship of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (2010)
* Associate Fellowship of the National Academy of Veterinary Sciences (2010). 
* Member of One-Health Group of Federation of Asian Veterinary Association (FAVA) (2021-2025)
* Member of Govt. of India Committee for the Purpose of Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals (CPCSEA), Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying (DAHD), Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying (MoFAH&D).
Category:Indian people
Category:1973 births