National Research Professor-Ayush

Professor Bhushan Patwardhan

National Research Professor – Ayush, Government of India, Professor Bhushan Patwardhan is a highly accomplished academician with over 40 years of experience in higher education, scientific research, and institutional governance. He is a distinguished Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medical Sciences in India. He is a Distinguished Professor at IIT Kharagpur and Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Complementary Medicine, Western Sydney University, Australia. He Co-chaired the WHO Expert Group for the Global Center for Traditional Medicine and the First Global Summit on Traditional Medicine. He has been involved in policy-making committees and task forces for esteemed organizations like the National Knowledge Commission, Planning Commission, NITI Aayog, and the World Health Organization Geneva. Beyond his scholarly pursuits, Professor Patwardhan has actively contributed to raising awareness about predatory publishing and has served as the Chairman of the Consortium for Academic Research Ethics (UGC-CARE) and his World View article on predatory journals, published in NATURE, has garnered widespread appreciation. He has contributed significantly to quality mandate of the UGC and innovative concepts including Academic Bank of Credit recommended by the National Education Policy 2020. He is recipient of numerous orations and awards, including the Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel Award, Sir Ram Nath Chopra Oration, Waldemar Haffkine Oration among many others. Professor Patwardhan has received numerous research grants, supervised the research of 20 PhD students, and holds 8 Indian Patents and 2 US Patents. With scientific publications, numbering over 175, Scholar h-index 62, and 15,100+ citations he is recognized as one of the world’s top 2% of biomedical scientists.

Professor Bhushan Patwardhan, PhD, FNASc, FNAMS National Research Professor – Ayush, Government of India Former Vice Chairman, University Grants Commission - Chairman NAAC, India Member Lancet Citizen’s Commission for India - Adjunct Professor NICM Western Sydney University, Australia - Distinguished Professor, IIT, Kharagpur and Department of Health Sciences, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune 411007 INDIA bpatwardhan@gmail.com