Kavirayani Ramakrishna Prasad (born 7 January 1969) is an Indian chemist. He is working in synthesis in organic chemistry. He is working in Indian Institute of Science. He received Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awards in 2014. [1] [2] [3]
The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is a science award in India given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, applied or fundamental, in biology, chemistry, environmental science, engineering, mathematics, medicine and Physics. The prize recognizes outstanding Indian work in science and technology. It is the most coveted award in multidisciplinary science in India. The award is named after the founder Director of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar. It was first awarded in 1958.
Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University, formerly Agra University, is a state university located in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. The university is named after Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar, Indian scholar, social reformer, and the architect of the Indian Constitution.
Mahan Mj, also known as Mahan Maharaj and Swami Vidyanathananda, is an Indian mathematician and monk of the Ramakrishna Order. He is currently Professor of Mathematics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai. He is a recipient of the 2011 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Sciences. and the Infosys Prize 2015 for Mathematical Sciences. He is best known for his work in hyperbolic geometry, geometric group theory, low-dimensional topology and complex geometry.
Eknath Prabhakar Ghate is a mathematician specialising in number theory and working at the School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for science and technology, the highest science award in India, for the year 2013 in the mathematical sciences category.
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. He lab focuses to understand the function of molecular motor proteins and its role in pathogen degradation and lipid homeostasis in liver.
Sachchida Nand Tripathi is an Indian scientist who works in the field of Atmospheric Sciences. He is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and adjunct Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He received Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awards-2014 for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, in the Earth sciences category.
Souvik Maiti is an Indian chemist known for his studies in the fields of Biophysical Chemistry and Chemical Biology focusing on nucleic acids, DNA and RNA. He works at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology. He is also visiting scientist at National Chemical Laboratory Pune. He graduated with a Bachelor (1993) and Master (1995) degree in Chemistry from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He completed his doctoral research in 1999 in the field of Polymer Chemistry from CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad. He is known for his studies on biophysical aspect of quadruplexes, locked nucleic acids. He is also known for his work on silencing microRNAs by small molecules. His group has invented nucleic acid based enzyme as silencers for microRNA, known as antagomirzymes.Antagomirzymes: oligonucleotide enzymes that specifically silence microRNA function He is recipient of CSIR, NASI-Scopus, CDRI, AVRA Young Scientist Awards and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Chemistry, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awards in 2014., National Bioscience Award for Career Development of the Department of Biotechnology in 2015. in Biology, as well as Swarnajayanti Fellowships in Biological Sciences. He is fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore and Indian National Academy of Science, Delhi. Along with his colleague, Dr Debojyoti Chakraborty, he has co-invented a rapid test for COVID-19, FnCas9 Editor-Linked Uniform Detection Assay, FELUDA. Feluda is a popular fictional detective created by the late Satyajit Ray. Tata Sons has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research for the ‘licensing of knowhow’ of FELUDA for scale-up production and mass testing for COVID-19.
Soumen Chakrabarti is an Indian computer scientist and professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay. He is known for his work on
S Venkata Mohan is an Indian engineer who has specialization in Environmental Engineering, Environmental Biotechnology, Bioenergy, Bioengineering. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2014, for his contributions to Engineering Sciences.
Kaushal Kumar Verma is an Indian mathematician who specializes in complex analysis. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 2014. He is an associate professor in the department of Mathematics at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Pratap Raychaudhuri is an Indian physicist who works at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay. His specialization is in the fields of superconductivity and magnetism, transport based spectroscopy, and thin films. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 2014.
Sadiqali Abbas Rangwala is an Indian physicist. He is working in the field of Experimental atomic, molecular and optical physics. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 2014. He has made outstanding contribution on collisionally cooled ions with trapped atoms leading to new ultracold ion-atom physics.
Ganesh Prasad Pandey is an Indian organic chemist and scientist at National Chemical Laboratory. He is known for his researches on photo-induced single electron transfer reactions and the synthesis of natural products and is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy the National Academy of Sciences, India and the Indian Academy of Sciences The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1999, for his contributions to chemical sciences.
Subramanian Anantha Ramakrishna is a professor of physics in Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur specializing in optics and condensed matter physics. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, India's highest prize for excellence in science, mathematics and technology, in the physical sciences category in the year 2016. Ramakrishna obtained M.Sc. degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1995 after pursuing the integrated 5-year M.Sc. programme and secured Ph.D. from Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, in 2001 for a thesis titled "Light transport and localization in Active and passive random media" written under the supervision of Prof. N. Kumar. He spent two years in Imperial College, London, as a postdoctoral researcher and joined Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur as an assistant professor in May 2003, where he now holds the position of professor.
Jagdish Narain Sinha is an Indian pharmacologist and a former professor at the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics of the Uttar Pradesh Dental College and Research Centre, Lucknow. He is also a former member of the faculty of King George's Medical University and has been a member of the Independent Ethics Committee of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization.
Anil Kumar Mandal is an Indian ophthalmologist and a consultant at L. V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad. Known for his research on glaucoma, Mandal is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Medical Sciences. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to Medical Sciences in 2003.
Madineni Venkat Ratnam is an Indian atmospheric scientist, Heading Aerosol, Radiation and Trace gases Group at the National Atmospheric Research Laboratory of Department of Space, Government of India. He is known for his studies on middle atmospheric structure and dynamics.
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