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Perhaps JNU doesn’t need to publish this info as nobody cares
to read this. At least, not the students who study there or want
to join JNU. But there should be some patents at-least? All that
we find for patents is the below information:

Patents by faculty
◆ R. Bhatnagar (2001-2002). A Process for the Preparation
of Non-Toxic Anthrax Vaccine. Indian patent (1222/Del/2001)
accepted. International PCT application (PCT/IN2002/00048;
WO-03-048390A1, June 12, 2003) published. R. Bhatnagar
(2001). A process for constitutively preparing anthrax protec-
tive antigen. Indian patent (1127/Del/2001) accepted. R. Bhatna-
gar (2001). An Anthrax Protective Antigen. Indian patent (1074/
Del/2002) accepted.
◆ Aparna Dixit (2007). Anti-diabetic recombinant protein. In-
dian patent and International PCT applications filed. Aparna
Dixit (2007). Recombinant vaccine against Aeromonas hy-
drophila. Indian Patent application filed.
◆ R. Bhatnagar (2008). An immunodominant B cell epitope
based protein vaccine against Anthrax. Indian Patent applica-
tion (2947/DEL/2008) filed. R. Bhatnagar (2008). A pharmaceu-
tical composition of vaccine against Rabies…..its preparation
thereof. Indian Patent (1449/DEL/2008) and International PCT
(PCT/IN2008/000578) applications filed.
◆ K. J. Mukherjee (2006). A process for getting high yields of
xylanases (patent application filed). K.J. Mukherjee (1999). A
process for getting high yields of streptokinase. K.J. Mukher-
jee (2002). Process technology for production of human alpha
interferon in E.coli Application No. 212080 (1276/Del/2002) In-
dian Patent Accepted.
Research: JNU has been promoting research by students and
faculty. Faculty members have been able to attract competitive ◆ Santosh K. Kar, (2006). Method for Identification and/or Di-
research grants from many national and international fund- agnosis of REM Sleep Loss from Blood Samples. Indian Patent.
ing agencies. Currently, more than 300 research projects are Date of Issue: 24 Oct 2006.
running in the University. Research grants are also received So barring some 4 names of Mr. Bhatnagar, Ms. Dixit, Mr
from DST, DBT, ICMR, CSIR, UGC, ICSSR, ICHR, ICCR, Ministries, Kar & Mr. Mukherjee, there are no patents by any other faculty.
European Union, European Commission, Ford Foundation, Number of patents by students ??? Try searching….I did not find
Welcome Trust etc. In addition to research projects, faculty any results. So much for the 57 per cent students doing doctor-
members are also encouraged to ate level courses.
undertake consultancy projects. You want to know the best
University has also set up an Ad- Almost 55% of the total JNU student claims about the research JNU pub-
vanced Instrumentation Research strength is doing M.Phil or PhD. At lishes ? You’ll find that in the place-
facility where state of the art equip- ment brochure (yes they have one,
ment have been installed to meet any campus across the world, the although very superficial & doesn’t
the requirements of many science number of students dips as they disclose any statistics about past
schools/special centers. Univer- placements).
sity has also set up an Intellectual move from under-grad courses to
Property Management (IPM) Cell to Some inferences from the data
facilitate filing of patents and tech- post grad and there are very few above:
nology transfers. who pursue doctorate level courses. 1) With 4,360 students in M.Phil.
As you can see, there is no spe- & Ph.D. courses, there are hardly
cific mention of any numbers or This is also driven by financial 1,000 research “articles” published
concrete claims on research & compulsions as people focus in Journals. The university doesn’t
publications, no names of journals name any notable journals while
or publications worth mentioning. more on their career track making such claims. This implies

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