Suman Sahai

Suman Sahai is an Indian activist and the founder of Gene Campaign.

Career Sahai obtained a Ph.D. from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in 1975. She then successively worked at the University of Alberta, University of Chicago, and the University of Heidelberg, where she obtained her habilitation in human genetics. 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. She is director of the NGO, Gene Campaign.

Awards Order of the Golden Ark, 2001 Padma Shri, 2011

Plagiarism In April 2013, Sahai was shown to have committed plagiarism in her habilitation thesis, which had been submitted to the University of Heidelberg in 1986. In addition, she was accused of presenting herself as being or having been a professor at that University, without ever actually having occupied such a position. , Sahai's short bio at the World Academy of Art and Science still lists her as "Professor of Genetics, University of Heidelberg".