Rakesh Kumar Jain (born 24 December 1957) is an Indian virologist and the former head and coordinator of the Microbial Type Culture Collection (MTCC),^[1] a national research centre located at theInstitute of Microbial Technology campus.^[2] He is known for his research in virology. His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles^{[3][note 1]} and the online article repository ofJohn Wiley & Sons has listed several of them.^[4] Besides, he has edited one book,A Century of Plant Virology in India, an 805-page volume compiling the research done in the field of plant virology in India during the last 100 years.^[5] TheDepartment of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him theNational Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences in 2002.^[6]

• Bikash Mandal; Govind Pratap Rao; Virendra Kumar Baranwal, Rakesh Kumar Jain (28 November 2017).A Century of Plant Virology in India. Springer Singapore.ISBN 978-981-10-5672-7.

• Arora, Pankaj Kumar; Jain, Rakesh Kumar (6 June 2012)."Metabolism of 2-Chloro-4-Nitrophenol in a Gram Negative Bacterium, Burkholderia sp. RKJ 800".PLOS ONE.7 (6) e38676.Bibcode:2012PLoSO...738676A.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038676.ISSN 1932-6203.PMC 3368897.PMID 22701692.
• Fazlurrahman; Batra, M.; Pandey, J.; Suri, C.r.; Jain, R.k. (1 December 2009)."Isolation and characterization of an atrazine-degrading Rhodococcus sp. strain MB-P1 from contaminated soil".Letters in Applied Microbiology.49 (6):721–729.doi:10.1111/j.1472-765x.2009.02724.x.ISSN 1472-765X.PMID 19818008.S2CID 39152136.
• Jain, R. K.; Mital, R. L. (5 October 1982). "ChemInform Abstract: Synthesis of Some New Polyhalogenated Hydroxy-phenothiazines and Their Alkyl and Acyl Derivatives".Chemischer Informationsdienst (in German).13 (40): no.doi:10.1002/chin.198240226.ISSN 2199-2924.

• N-BIOS Prize recipients
• Indian medical academics
• Fellows of the National Academy of Sciences, India
• 1958 births
• Living people
• Indian virologists

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