Suman Sahai is an Indian activist and the founder of Gene Campaign.
[2] According to the Web of Science, Sahai has published over 40 articles, mostly on policy issues relating to genetically modified organisms, which have been cited about 200 times, giving her an h-index of 9.
[4][5][6] In April 2013, Sahai was shown to have committed plagiarism in her habilitation thesis,[9] which had been submitted to the University of Heidelberg in 1986.
[9] On 14 April 2013, the University of Heidelberg confirmed that plagiarism had taken place, that Sahai has no right to call herself a professor of the University of Heidelberg, and that in consequence Sahai had agreed to renounce her venia legendi.
[9][11] As of 2023[update], Sahai's short bio at the World Academy of Art and Science still lists her as "Professor of Genetics, University of Heidelberg".