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Professor Dr Brij Kishore Tyagi is presently serving as an Advisor to SpoRIC, VIT University, Vellore, TN, India and a tenured International Consultant for Biotech Consortium India Limited on a FAO-Sri Lanka Biosafety Project. During his highly prolific career in the Indian Council of Medical Research, spanning over 35 years, he investigated on malaria in several hyperendemic states like Odisha and Gujarat as well as the inhospitable environments of The Great Indian Thar Desert in Rajasthan. Following his emeritation from the Government of India's ICMR-Centre for Research in Medical Entomology, Madurai as the Scientist "G" (Director) & Director in-Charge, he was first appointed as a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Biotechnology & Environmental Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, TN in 2015, and later as a Visiting Professor at the university in 2016. He further took up Visiting Professorship at the Department of Zoology & Environmental Sciences, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab for two years (2017-18) and was teaching PG students on medical entomology, parasitology and vector-borne diseases. He has been also serving inter alia as a Core Faculty of the DST-SERB School of Insect Biology at Hyderabad University, Hyderabad and a Guest Faculty, Mohan Lal Sukhadia University, Udaipur. He was the first National Representative in-Charge in India for the International Odonatological Society (1981-1990), and a member in-Charge in South Asia for the Odonata Specialist Group of Species Survival Commission (IUCN) (1985-1995). He is Chief Editor of Journal of Medical Arthropodology & Public Health and editor or member of Editorial/Referee Boards for several international and national journals. He was the Chairman of the Review Committee on Genetic Manipulation (RCGM) of the Department of Biotechnology for the On-Site Inspection Committee for RCT with GM Aedes aegypti at MAHYCO, Jalna, Maharashtra, and an expert member of the Performance Evaluation Team for