Prof. D. K. Dhawan is presently working as a Professor Emeritus in the department of Biophysics and has previously worked as Professor of Biophysics for 15 years. He also founded the Centre for Nuclear Medicine at Panjab University, Chandigarh in the year 2006 and headed the same for 9 years and was also Coordinator, Centre for Medical Physics in the year 2013. Professor Dhawan did his Ph.D. from Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh, India in the year 1984. Prior to his Ph.D., he worked in Radiation Medicine Centre of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India, and was awarded Post Graduate Diploma in Medical Radioisotopes Techniques in the year 1978. His research areas are radiation medicine, toxicology and cancer. He has published 225 research articles and 186 are listed in Scopus during 38 years of his research career. Prof. Dhawan has supervised 46 Ph.D. and 47 Master’s theses of students and currently is supervising work of 6 Ph.D. students. He has completed 18 research projects funded by various scientific organizations. Recently, his research entitled” A radioactive trimer complex for the detection of tumors” was granted Patent by Government of India. Prof. Dhawan is a Fellow of Union for International Cancer Control, Indian Association of Biomedical Scientists, Honorary Fellow of Indian College of Nuclear Medicine and Fellow of International Medical Olympicus Association. For his contribution in science, he was given Oration award by Indian Association of Biomedical Scientists at its 38^th Annual conference held at Chennai, India and was also given best researcher award by Panjab University in the year 2019 and received best papers award twice during Medical Olympicus conference, Greece. Prof. Dhawan has been awarded University Grants Commission-Basic Science Research (UGC-BSR) Faculty Fellowship by the University Grants Commission of India in the year 2020.