Rajender Singh Sangwan
Rajender Singh Sangwan (born 24 August 1958) is an Indian biochemist, professor and agriculture biotechnologist. He is the Director and Vice-Chancellor of Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), India. He is also a former director of National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI). Early life. Sangwan was born on 24 August 1958 at Badal village in Haryana, India. He graduated in B.Sc. (Chemistry, Botany and Zoology) at Kurukshetra University in 1979. He has done Masters in Biochemistry from Haryana Agricultural University 1981. He completed his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Haryana Agricultural University in 1987. He went  to Queens University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada for his Post-Doctoral research. Career. He the founder of Center of Innovative and Applied Bioprocessing (CIAB) and was the CEO from May 2012 to August 2017. Rajender Singh Sangwan joined as the first regular director of Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) on 17 August 2017. He has more than 125 publications in international journals and has several patents to his name.