D.K Dhawan

D.K Dhawan
Professor, Department of Biophysics
Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

Biography

Dr. D. K. Dhawan is presently working as a Professor in the department of Biophysics and also worked as chairman department of Biophysics, Coordinator of Centre for Nuclear Medicine as well as Centre for Medical Physics at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. Professor Dhawan completed his M.Sc. (Honors) in Biophysics from Panjab University in the year 1978 and Ph.D. from PGIMER, Chandigarh, in the year 1984. Prior to Ph.D., He worked as a trainee in Radiation Medicine Centre of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai and was awarded Post Grauate Diploma in Medical Radioisotopes Techniques by University of Bombay. His research areas are neurodegeneration, cancer and toxicology. He has published 132 research articles, cited in Scopus during 30 years of his research career. Prof. Dhawan has supervised 30 Ph.D. and 40 M.Sc. theses of students. He is a Fellow of Indian College of Nuclear Medicine and Indian Association of Biomedical Scientists.