Manindra Agrawal is an Indian computer scientist and director of Indian Institute of Technology,Kanpur. He is also a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology,Kanpur. He was the recipient of the first Infosys Prize for Mathematics,the Godel Prize in 2006;and the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Sciences in 2003. He has been honoured with Padma Shri,India's 4th highest civilian award,in 2013.
Obaid Siddiqi FRS was an Indian National Research Professor and the Founder-Director of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) National Center for Biological Sciences. He made seminal contributions to the field of behavioural neurogenetics using the genetics and neurobiology of Drosophila.
Padmanabhan Balaram is an Indian biochemist and a former director of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore,India. He is a recipient of the third highest Indian civilian honour of Padma Bhushan (2014) as well as the TWAS Prize (1994). He has been conferred the 2021 R. Bruce Merrifield Award by the American Peptide Society.
Ashok Jhunjhunwala is an Indian academic and innovator. He received his B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology,Kanpur and PhD from the University of Maine. He has been a faculty member at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras since 1981. He is the President of IIT Madras Research Park and Chairman of International Institute of Information Technology,Hyderabad. During his career,he has contributed extensively to technology innovation and adoption in the Indian context.
Manchanahalli Rangaswamy Satyanarayana Rao was an Indian scientist. He was awarded the fourth-highest civilian award,the Padma Shri,for Science and Engineering in 2010. From 2003 to 2013 he was president of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) in Bangalore,India.
Ashutosh Sharma is an Institute Chair Professor and C V Seshadri Chair Professor at the Department of chemical engineering of Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He is the founding Coordinator of DST Thematic Unit of Excellence on Soft Nanofabrication and Chairman of Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur. He is best known for his pioneering research work in the areas of colloids,thin film,interfaces,adhesion,patterning and in the fabrication and application of self-assembled nano-structures.
Usha Vijayraghavan is an Indian molecular biologist. She is on the faculty of the Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology,at the Indian Institute of Science. Her major research interests are Molecular Genetics,Plant Development.
Roop Mallik is an Indian biophysicist who works on nanoscale molecular motor proteins that transport material such as viruses,mitochondria,endosomes etc. inside living cells. The motors,such as kinesin and dynein generate forces of pico-newton order to carry our various cellular processes namely cell division,vesicular transport,endocytosis,molecular tethering etc. His lab is working to understand how motor proteins help in degradation and clearance of pathogens,and also how these motors work inside the liver to maintain systemic lipid homeostasis in the animal. Mallik is currently a professor at the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering,Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
Veronica Filomena Rodrigues (1953–2010) was a Kenyan born Indian biologist. Veronica completed a B.A with honors in microbiology from Trinity College Dublin. After being inspired by the work of Obaid Siddiqi and his co-workers,she moved to India to pursue her Ph.D. While doing her PhD,considering her exceptional work,she was offered a permanent faculty position at TIFR. She also served as a senior professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences,Bangalore. In 2004 she received the Senior National Woman Bioscientist Award. She died in 2010 after suffering from breast cancer for five years.
Virander Singh Chauhan is an Indian scientist and a Rhodes Scholar working in the fields of genetic engineering and biotechnology. He is known for his contributions to the development of a recombinant vaccine for malaria. and for synthetic structural peptides with biological functions. He was honored by the Government of India in 2012 with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri. He is the present Chancellor of the Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management.
Dilip Devidas Bhawalkar is an Indian optical physicist and the founder director of the Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (CAT),an institute under the Department of Atomic Energy,serving as a centre for higher studies in the fields of lasers and particle accelerators. He is credited with pioneering research in optics and lasers in India and is reported to have contributed in making CAT a partner in the International Linear Collider and Large Hadron Collider experiments of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). He is a recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize,the highest Indian award in science and technology. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian award of the Padma Shri in 2000.
Ramanathan Sowdhamini is an Indian computational biologist,bioinformatician. He is a professor at the department of biochemistry,biophysics and bioinformatics of the National Centre for Biological Sciences,a TIFR research facility located in Bengaluru. Known for computational studies in the field of Protein Science,Sowdhamini is also associated with the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine as a collaborator and is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences as well as the Indian National Science Academy. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded her the National Bioscience Award for Career Development,one of the highest Indian science awards,for her contributions to biosciences in 2007.
Nihar Ranjan Jana is an Indian neuroscientist and professor at the IIT Kharagpur,known for his studies on E3 ubiquitin ligases,protein homeostasis and neurodegenerative disorders. Jana is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences,India. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development,in 2008 and TATA Innovation Fellowship in 2014 for his contributions to Neurodegenerative diseases.
Subramaniam Ganesh is an Indian geneticist,molecular biologist and a professor at the department of biological sciences and bio-engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology,Kanpur. Known for his pioneering studies on Lafora progressive myoclonic epilepsy and other neurodegenerative disorders,Ganesh is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences,India. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development,one of the highest Indian science awards,for his contributions to biosciences in 2008.
Balaji Prakash is an Indian structural biologist,biochemist and the associate dean of sciences and professor,biological and life sciences,at the School of Arts and Sciences,Ahmedabad University,since July 2020. Prior to this he served as senior principal scientist and the head of the department of molecular nutrition of the Central Food Technological Research Institute. Known for elucidating the structure of a unique GTP-binding protein,Prakash is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences,India and was a senior research fellow of The Wellcome Trust,UK. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development,one of the highest Indian science awards,for his contributions to biosciences,in 2009.
Chandrima Shaha is an Indian biologist. As of September 2021,she is the J. C. Bose Chair Distinguished Professor at the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology,Kolkata. She is the former Director and former Professor of Eminence at the National Institute of Immunology. She was the President of Indian National Science Academy (2020–22) and the Vice President of the same academy (2016–2018). She is an elected fellow of the World Academy of Sciences,Indian National Science Academy,Indian Academy of Sciences,National Academy of Sciences and the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology.
Arun Kumar Shukla is an Indian structural biologist and the Joy-Gill Chair professor at the department of biological sciences and bioengineering at the Indian Institute of Technology,Kanpur. Known for his studies on G protein-coupled receptor,Shukla is a Wellcome Trust-DBT Intermediate Fellow and a recipient of the SwarnaJayanti Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development,one of the highest Indian science awards,for his contributions to biosciences,in 2017/18. He received the 2021 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Biological Science. He was awarded the Infosys Prize 2023 in Life Sciences his outstanding contributions to the biology of G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs).
Bushra Ateeq is a Professor and a Senior Fellow of the DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance in the Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering (BSBE),IIT Kanpur specializing in cancer biology and molecular oncology. She was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Medical Sciences in the year 2020. Her research interest involves exploration of the genetic and epigenetic changes that initiate cancer and its progression. She is also focusing on understanding the molecular events that drive cancer and resistance towards chemotherapeutic drugs.
Krishnarajanagar Nagappa Ganesh is an Indian bio-organic chemist and served as the (founding) director of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research,Tirupati since 2017 till 2023. He is also the founding director of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research,Pune,that was established in 2006 and served the office till 2017. He is a recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in chemical sciences (1998) for "his outstanding contribution towards the understanding of the chemical principles of DNA molecular recognition and for his work on various facets of DNA structure and its interaction with drugs and proteins". He is also a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy since 2000.
