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[[File:Prof Bharat B Chattoo.jpg|thumb|Prof Bharat B Chattoo, J C Bose National Fellow, Eminent Scientist]]
'''Bharat B. Chattoo''' (25 May 1951 – 15 November 2016<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vadodara/Genome-scientist-Chattoo-dies-at-67/articleshow/55464265.cms|title=Genome scientist Bharat Chattoo dies at 67 - Times of India|work=The Times of India|access-date=2017-10-30}}</ref>), a
Chattoo was responsible for establishment of [[Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University]], Jammu, as the Founding Vice-Chancellor,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eindia.eletsonline.com/2012/prof-bharat-bhushan-chattoo-founder-vice-chancellor-shri-mata-vaishno-devi-university/|title=eindia.eletsonline.com/2012/prof-bharat-bhushan-chattoo-founder-vice-chancellor-shri-mata-vaishno-devi-university/|website=eindia.eletsonline.com|access-date=2017-10-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108151547/http://eindia.eletsonline.com/2012/prof-bharat-bhushan-chattoo-founder-vice-chancellor-shri-mata-vaishno-devi-university/|archive-date=8 November 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> between 19 August 2001 and 31 August 2004 right from the initial conceptualisation stage.
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== Early life and career ==
Bharat B. Chattoo was born in post-independence India, on the auspicious occasion of [[Jyeshtha]] Ashtami, to Pt Shivjee Nath Chattoo and Smt Jaya Chattoo, residents of Ali Kadal, Srinagar, India. After initial years of home schooling under the guidance of his father, maternal uncles and cousins, Bharat proceeded to complete his BSc (1968) and MSc (1971) from the University of Jammu and Kashmir, India. He then completed his PhD in the field of Microbial Genetics from the University of Delhi in 1976.{{cn|date=November 2020}}
Chattoo was then appointed the Co-ordinator at the Centre of Biosciences, at the [[University of Roorkee]] In 1982, Chattoo had a brief stint at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India.{{cn|date=November 2020}}
Thereafter, later that year, Chattoo moved overseas to Basel, where he was associated with the [[Frederich Meischer Institute for Biomedical Research]] and [[Ciba-Geigy]].{{cn|date=November 2020}}
In 1986, Chattoo moved back to India and joined the academia, taking up a position at the prestigious [[Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda|Maharaja Sayajirao University]], Vadodara, Gujarat.{{cn|date=November 2020}}
== Academic career ==
In 1986 he joined the faculty of Maharaja Sayajirao University (MSU) as Professor and became Head of the Department of Microbiology (1996–2001) and the Director of Centre for Genome Research of the University (Now renamed as the Dr Bharat Chattoo Genome Research Centre),<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=http://www.bcmsu.ac.in/introduction.htm|title=Dr. Chattoo's Introduction|website=www.bcmsu.ac.in|access-date=2017-10-30}}</ref> since 2001.
From August 2001 to 2004 he also took responsibility as the Founding Vice-Chancellor of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University (Jammu) to conceptualize and establish the new University, at Katra, near Jammu.{{cn|date=November 2020}}
In the meantime, at Baroda he established a Cluster Innovation Centre to encourage the interface of industry and entrepreneurship in Gujarat.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vadodara/MSU-to-set-up-cluster-innovation-centre/articleshow/11036467.cms|title=MSU to set up cluster innovation centre - Times of India|work=The Times of India|access-date=2017-10-30}}</ref>
His laboratory has successfully expressed therapeutic proteins of pharmaceutical interest such as Hepatitis B surface antigen and human epidermal growth factor in non-conventional yeasts and transferred the know-how to the industry.{{cn|date=November 2020}}
He received the National Technology award at the Technology Day Programme on 11 May 2001 from the Vice President of India for transfer of technologies to the industry. He was awarded the Rockefeller Foundation Biotechnology career fellowship and the STA fellowship from Japan Science and Technology Corporation.{{cn|date=November 2020}}
His active research collaborations included Federal Institute of Technology] (ETH), Zurich (for bioprocess development, reactor design, bioprocess control and automation under Indo-Swiss Collaboration in Biotechnology); [[International Rice Research Institute]] (IRRI), [[Salk Institute for Biological Studies]], [[John Innes Institute]], [[Weizmann Institute of Science]] (for cooperation in bioinformatics sponsored by UNESCO and DBT, GoI and Indian industrial partners); University of Leeds and the Weizmann Institute of Science; the Rice Genome Programme, Tsukuba (for molecular mapping and genome analysis in rice), National Institute of Bioscience and Human Technology, Tsukuba; Tel-Aviv University, Israel.{{cn|date=November 2020}}
He served on several expert committees of the Government of India and was a member of the Gujarat Biotechnology Council.{{cn|date=November 2020}}
Prof Chattoo was the team leader of the first Indian team that participated in the International Biology Olympiad held at Antalya, Turkey in 2000.{{cn|date=November 2020}}
== Awards and fellowships ==
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A Fellow of the [[National Academy of Agricultural Sciences]] (NAAS),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.naas-india.org/naas/awardann.htm|title=NAAS Fellow List|access-date=30 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070707084448/http://naas-india.org/naas/awardann.htm|archive-date=7 July 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> New Delhi
A Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=C|title=The National Academy of Sciences, India - Fellows|website=www.nasi.org.in|access-date=2017-10-30|archive-date=15 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315111634/http://nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=C|url-status=dead}}</ref> Allahabad;
An Elected Member of the [[Guha Research Conference]] (GRC)
An Elected Member of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twas.org/member/chattoo-bharat-bhushan|title = Chattoo, Bharat Bhushan}}</ref>
A Member of the Genetics Society of America, International Society of Plant Molecular Biology, American Society of Microbiology, Society of Biological Chemists-India, National Science Foundation Bi-national (US-Israel) Grants Review Panel, Review Panel of Swiss National Science Foundation, Review Panel of Indo-Swedish Collaboration in Biotechnology,
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Chair of Expert Advisory Committee for the Biotechnology Initiatives of the State Government of Gujarat, Gujarat Biotechnology Council,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://btm.gujarat.gov.in/Portal/Document/1_9_1_chapter-8.pdf|title=Gujarat Biotech Council|access-date=30 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180114073744/https://btm.gujarat.gov.in/Portal/Document/1_9_1_chapter-8.pdf|archive-date=14 January 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> Governing Council of Gujarat Biotechnology Mission, Society of Cell Biology, etc.
Coordinator and senior member of the [[National Assessment and Accreditation Council]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.naac.gov.in/MS_57.html|title=PeerTeam Visits {{!}} Welcome to National Assessment and Accreditation Council|website=www.naac.gov.in|language=en|access-date=2017-10-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171209025621/http://www.naac.gov.in/MS_57.html|archive-date=9 December 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/naac-gives-b-grade-to-kannur-university/article8416029.ece|title=NAAC gives
== Personal life ==
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