25 November 1928, Lyallpur, India (Faisalabad, Pakistan) - 20th March 2020 Chandigarh, India

Citizenship

Indian

Address

Office
University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India


Degrees

B.Pharm., Panjab University, Ranked First, 1950
M.Pharm., Banaras Hindu University, 1952
Ph.D., Banaras Hindu University, 1956

D.Sc. (Honoris Causa), University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, 2014 
​D.Sc. (Honoris Causa), Punjab University, Chandigarh 2014

Positions Held

Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Banaras Hindu University, 1953-56

Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Saugar, 1956-64 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Pharmaceutical Chemistry,   University of Maryland, U.S.A., 1958-61 (on leave of absence from the University of Saugar)

Reader in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Panjab University, 1964-72

Visiting Professor and Research Associate in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Mississippi, U.S.A.,1967-68 (on leave of absence from the Panjab University)

Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellow, University of London, U.K., 1971-72 (on leave of absence from the Panjab University)

Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences (Pharmaceutical Chemistry), Panjab University, 1972-88

Head, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Panjab University, 1976-81 

Dean, Alumni Relations, Panjab University, 1979-84

Dean, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Panjab University,1981-85 

Emeritus Fellow (University Grants Commission), Panjab University, 1989-92

Professor Emeritus, Panjab University, since 2003

Awards and Honors

1975 Annual Award of the Shri Amrut Mody Research Foundation 

President, Indian Pharmaceutical Congress, Thirty-third Session (1981), Jaipur

1983 G. P. Srivastava Memorial Award, Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India, Nagpur

1984 Professor M. L. Khorana Lectureship, Indian Pharmaceutical Association, Bombay

National Fellow, University Grants Commission, 1985-87; the only pharmaceutical academic to get this honour

1987 Ranbaxy Research Award in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ranbaxy Research Foundation, New Delhi

Elected Member, Academie Internationale d'Historie de la Pharmacie, 1995

1998 Schroff Memorial National Award, Indian Hospital Pharmacists' Association, New Delhi

1999 Eminent Pharmacist Award, Indian Pharmaceutical Association, Bombay

Lifetime Achievement Award, Uttar Pradesh Technical University, 2006

Lifetime Achievement Award, Chandigarh Science Congress, 2007

Shri Bhojraj Panjamool Lifetime Achievement Award, Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India, Bangalore, 2007 

Lifetime Achievement Award, 59th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress, Banaras Hindu University, 2007

Shri Ramanbhai B. Patel Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, Indian Pharmaceutical Association, Mumbai, 2010

Invited Lecture Delivered at Workshop on “Science in India in the 20th Century,” Asiatic Society, Kolkata, 2011

Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) conferred by the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 2014

Lifetime Achievement Award, Punjab Academy of Sciences, Patiala, 2015

Awarded Padma Shri 2017