The Indian National Science Academy (INSA) in the last week of April 2017 announced the names of the recipient of the INSA Medal for Young Scientist 2017.
A total of 30 scientists have been chosen for the prestigious award.
The award, consisting of a bronze medal and cash award of INR 25000 will be given to the recipients during INSA’s anniversary meeting scheduled in December 2017.
The INSA Young Scientists Award is considered to be the highest recognition of promise, creativity and excellence in a young scientist.
The INSA award was instituted in 1974 by the Indian National Science Academy.
| Name | Awarded For |
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| Riddhi Datta, PhD, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Government College, Kolkata | Elucidating the molecular mechanisms of glutathione- salicylic acid- and ethylene interactions in plant defense signalling network |
| Srishti Dar, PhD, TIFR, Mumbai | Developing an elegant assay system of arrayed supported membrane tubes whose dimensions can be controlled to mimic the topology of tubular intermediates generated during membrane fission and for demonstrating the role of GTP hydrolysis and PH domain in membrane constriction and faster kinetics of dynamin catalyzed fission |
| Debraj Choudhury, PhD, Department of Physics, IITK, Kharagpur | His insights into the physics of multi-ferroics and oxide systems, and the discovery of exceptional dielectric properties in a series of compounds |
| Swetaprovo Chaudhuri, PhD, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IISc, Bengaluru | Outstanding contributions in turbulent combustion laser diagnostics and high performance CFD computation |
| Kunal Chakraborty, PhD, ESSO- INCOIS, Hyderabad | His outstanding contributions on modelling of marine ecosystem variability in the Indian Ocean |
| Anup Biswas, PhD, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune | His study of the Dirichlet problem for stable-like operators and related probabilistic representations of solutions of stochastic differential equations with jumps |
| Vashist Bist, PhD, Texas Instruments India Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru | His outstanding contribution in the area of DC motor drives for low power applications |
| Sanchari Bhattacharyya, PhD, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA | Designing minimal protein immunogens based on glycoprotein gp120 of HIV-1 as a potential future vaccine against HIV with reduced aggregation properties and higher stability |
| Priyoneel Basu, PhD, Department of Zoology, Institute of Science, BHU, Varanasi | Pioneering studies on the role of 5-HTP (a precursor of the neurotransmitter serotonin) in resetting the phase of the circadian activity-rest rhythm in mice |
| Md Mahiuddin Baidya, PhD, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai | His contributions towards development of news protocols and for the synthesis of biologically important molecules |
| Dipak Gayen, PhD, National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi | Cloning the rice r9- LOX1 gene and showing increased viability and storage stability of nutritional components of golden rice seeds by its down regulation through RNAi and for studying regulation of iron transport in roots by miRNA |
| Vikram Vishal, PhD, Department of Earth Sciences, IIT-B, Mumbai | His outstanding contributions on hydro-dynamics of fluid flow in unconventional reservoirs |
| Jitendra Thakur, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research, Washington, USA | Elucidating mechanisms of centromere and kinetochore formation in Candida species |
| Devanjan Sinha, PhD, Department of Zoology, Institute of Science, BHU, Varanasi | Delineating the complexity and substrate specificity of mitochondrial transport machines and for establishing their role in maintenance of mitochondrial function in diverse physiological states |
| Vikas Kumar Singh, PhD, Center of Excellence in Genomics, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Hyderabad | Developing large scale genetic and genomic resources, including sequencing–based mapping, for fusarium wilt resistance and sterility mosaic disease resistance in pigeonpea and for contribution to development of molecular breeding lines in rice |
| Sunil Shetty, PhD, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland | Providing novel insights about roles of the 3GC pairs in initiator tRNA in translation |
| Sahana Holla, PhD, Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, USA | Providing novel insights into immune evasion and survival strategies of mycobacteria Dinesh Jagadeesan, PhD, Physical and Materials Chemistry Division, CSIR- National Chemical Laboratory, Pune His approaches towards development of new catalysts and activation of CO2 |
| Smita Kumar, PhD, Centre of Biomedical Research, SGPGI Campus, Lucknow | Significant contributions in understanding the molecular mechanisms involved in detoxification of heavy metals like As and S in plants |
| Rucha Kiran Patil, PhD, Genetic Research Center, National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health, Mumbai | Identifying novel roles of cell derived micro particles in important clinical conditions like recurrent pregnancy loss and dengue fever complications |
| Ashutosh Pandey, PhD, Faculty of Biology, Chair of Genome Research & CeBiTec, University of Bielefeld, Germany | Metabolic engineering of flavonoid and carotenoid biosynthesis in higher plants |
| Joe Philip Ninan, PhD, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Pennsylvania State University, USA | His studies of outburst phenomena in young stellar objects, and development of necessary instruments |
| Bodhisatta Nandy, PhD, IISER, Behrampur | Comprehensive experimental evidence, using the Drosophila model system, for the major tenets of the theory of sexual selection and inter-sexual conflict |
| Kartik Prasad, PhD, Mechanical Behavior Group, Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Hyderabad | His outstanding contributions in the development of indigenous instrumentation for thermo-mechanical fatigue (TMF) crack growth experiments, its utilization for studying TMF in aerospace grade Ti and Ni alloys, and subsequently for using such knowledge in enhancing the remaining life of aeroengines |
| Arnab Sen, PhD, Department of Theoretical Physics, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata | His outstanding contributions towards developing quantum Monte Carlo methods to probe quantum critical points |
| Uday Kumar B Reddy, PhD, Department of Computer Science and Automation, IISc, Bengaluru | His stellar work in automatic parallelization in high performance computing |
| Sanjay Pratihar, PhD, Department of Chemical Sciences, Tezpur University, Tezpur | His outstanding contributions to multi-metal complexes, theoretical understanding, selective sensing of Hg2+ ions and important applications in agriculture |
| Aravind Kumar Rengan, PhD, Department of Biomedical Engineering, IITH, Hyderabad | Devising a novel way of nano delivery using liposomes and gold nanoparticles, which is useful for both imaging and therapeutics |
