Rajat Sandhir, professor at Panjab University’s department of biochemistry, has been conferred with the “Mrs Abida Mahdi Award–2022” by the Indian Academy of Biomedical Sciences for outstanding contribution in the field of neurosciences.
Sandhir is serving on the editorial board of many international journals and is also a fellow of Indian Academy of Neurosciences and Indian Academy of Biomedical Scientists. His research interests are to understand the biochemical and molecular mechanisms involved in development of neurodegenerative conditions like metabolic encephalopathies, dementia and brain injury, with a particular interest in investigating the role of oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunctions and alterations in permeability of blood-brain-barrier.
He has been serving at biochemistry department for more than two decades and has published research articles in many top-ranking journals and has an h-index of 49 and i10 index of 140.