Amit Prakash Sharma

Amit Prakash Sharma (born April 12, 1968) is an Indian parasitologist and former director of National Institute of Malaria Research, New Delhi.

Sharma went on to do his post-doctoral work at St. John's College, Oxford and also served as faculty till 2000.

On his return to India in 2004, he joined International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology as a staff scientist.

[1] He led the ICGEB group of scientists who collaborated with the researchers from the Broad Institute who discovered a new compound, bicyclic azetidine, which showed potential against the Plasmodium parasite that caused malaria.

[11] The 2015 RCSB PDB Poster Prize of the Asian Crystallographic Association was secured by Vitul Jain for his poster,[12] based on an article, Structure of Prolyl-tRNA Synthetase-Halofuginone Complex Provides Basis for Development of Drugs against Malaria and Toxoplasmosis.