Prof. Asad U Khan graduated in Chemistry and did his post graduate in Biotechnology in 1994 and obtained a doctorate in Biochemistry from Aligarh Muslim University in association with International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi.He joined as lecturer in 1997 and later proceeded for his post-doctoral research in RUTGERS University, New Jersey, USA during 2000-2003 for three years. Prof. Khan has received many hon s and awards. He is the recipient of BOYSCAST Fellowship of DST, Government of India to work as Visiting Scientist in one of the laboratories in University of Napoli, Italy during 2004. He is recipient of National Bioscience Award for Career Development of Government of India, Department of Biotechnology for the year 2012, Young Scientist Award and Alembic Award of Association of Microbiologist of India in Medical Microbiology in 2006 and 2009 respectively.In the year 2010 Prof. Khan has been given Most Active Teachers Award of AMU and DBT-CREST award of Department of Biotechnology. He has been awarded the certificate of appreciation as thesis advisor of Eli Lilly Asia Outstanding Thesis awardee. He has also received grants from DST CSIR DBT ICMR and CCRUM, New Delhi worth of Rs. 360, Lakhs in last Five years. Prof. Khan is a member of Editorial board of several International journals. He has edited Three books and author of over 200 Research articles in the peer-reviewed journals with high impact factor and having more than 3700 citations with H-Index 30 (Scopus/ Google Scholar).