Biography:
Mishra received his B. S (Honors) and M.S degrees from Patna University ( then nicknamed as Oxford of the East) in India and Ph. D Degree from McMaster University. He received his post –doctoral training with the late Nobel Laureate Professor E. L. Tatum at the Rockefeller University. He was a Fellow for Medical Research of the Jane Coffin Child Fund of the Yale University at the Rockefeller University for two years and then Research Associate with Professor Tatum where he initiated his work in what is now called as Proteomics and Matabolomics. There he also devised the first gene transfer in a eukaryote, Neurospora crassa.
Later he joined the University of South Carolina Molecular Biology Group and Chairman of the Microbiology dept in the Medical School and remained as Professor of Genetics in the Dept. of Biological Sciences. He was also a Visiting Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biology in Heidelberg, Germany and in Genetic Institute of Greenwood, SC.
He has served as a Science advisor to the FAO of the United Nations in India on many occasions and also on the Review Panel of the Human Genome Project of the Dept of Energy, USA. He is a Fellow for the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 1986 for his contribution to the science of Genetics.
He visited China in May, 2000 supported by the Rockefeller Foundation among the first group of Scientists when China became first open to the West. In addition he has been invited to present his work in Australia, EU, Japan, India and Thailand.
In 1994 Dr. Mishra was one of the invitees to give commencement speech at the Martin Luther University at Halle Wittenberg, Germany organized to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the University : Martin Luther was the one who started Protestantism in Christian religion .
In addition to a large number of articles published in leading journals, he has published three books; two by John Wiley & Sons of New York, one on Proteomics in 2010; this book has been endorsed by Nobel Laureate Professor Gunter Blobel .
He is currently writing a book on “Genomics and other omics sciences: Genetic Engineering to Social Engineering” : This is the book I wish to submit to you for your consideration for publication by Springer/ Nature .
He has trained a large number of Ph. D students and post-doctoral fellows from different countries including that from EU, Middle East, India and China. DR. Mishra Persuaded the Board of Trustees of the University of South Carolina to confer Ph.D. degree to Dr. Kerry Mullis, a native of South Carolina, who developed PCR (polymerase chain reaction) and won Nobel Prize for his contribution to Science of Genetics and Genomics.
Dr. Mishra has been always interested in the development of compassionate & Secular democracy in India .
He was chosen to represent USA in Indian Congress in 1996 and had an audience with the then Prime Minister of India; DR. Mishra has also an audience with the Chairman of China in May 1980. DR. Mishra has been honored as Best Educator of America. DR. Mishra was awarded Hind Rattan / Jewels of India Award in 2014.
Dr. Mishra was invited to deliver keynote speeches on Proteomics in International Congresses in Atlanta, USA and in Osaka, Japan in 2016. In 2017, he is invited to participate in International Congresses in Singapore, San Diego and Dubai: And in 2018 he is invited to give key note speeches in London UK and in Tokyo, Japan.
Dr Mishra is also on the Board of Journal, Proteomics & Bioinformatics.
