Prof. D. K. Dhawan
Panjab University, India
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Biography:
Prof. D. K. Dhawan is presently working as a Professor Emeritus in the
department of Biophysics and has previously worked as Professor of
Biophysics for 15 years. He also founded the Centre for Nuclear Medicine at
Panjab University, Chandigarh in the year 2006 and headed the same for 9 years and
was also Coordinator, Centre for Medical Physics in the year 2013. Professor
Dhawan did his Ph.D. from Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research,
Chandigarh, India in the year 1984. Prior to his Ph.D., he worked in Radiation
Medicine Centre of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India, and was
awarded Post Graduate Diploma in Medical Radioisotopes Techniques in the year
1978. His research areas are radiation medicine, toxicology and cancer. He has
published 225 research articles and 186 are listed in Scopus during 38 years of
his research career. Prof. Dhawan has supervised 46 Ph.D. and 47 Master’s theses
of students and currently is supervising work of 6 Ph.D. students. He has
completed 18 research projects funded by various scientific organizations.
Recently, his research entitled” A radioactive trimer complex for the detection
of tumors” was granted Patent by Government of India. Prof. Dhawan is a Fellow
of Union for International Cancer Control, Indian Association of Biomedical
Scientists, Honorary Fellow of Indian College of Nuclear Medicine and Fellow of
International Medical Olympicus Association. For his contribution in science, he
was given Oration award by Indian Association of Biomedical Scientists at its
38th Annual conference held at Chennai, India and was also given
best researcher award by Panjab University in the year 2019 and received best
papers award twice during Medical Olympicus conference, Greece. Prof. Dhawan
has been awarded University Grants Commission-Basic Science Research (UGC-BSR)
Faculty Fellowship by the University Grants Commission of India in the year
2020.