Names of 30 Young (Under the age of 35) Scientists were announced for the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) medals in April 2017. Each Awardee will be presented a medal, a certificate and cash prize of Rs. 25,000. The awardee, within 5 years of receipt of award, will be considered for a visit abroad with full support for presenting research work at conferences and participate in collaborative/training research projects for upto 10 days wherever possible.
The award, consisting of a bronze medal and cash award of Rs. 25000 will be given to the recipients during INSA's Anniversary Meeting scheduled in December 2017. Here is the list of INSA Award Winners of 2017:
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Recipient |
Honoured for |
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Swati Agarwal, PhD, Solomon Snyder Department of Neuroscience, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA |
Elucidating the effect of Bisphenol A on neuronal progenitor and neuronal cells and the mechanism by which it affects autophagy and mitochondrial dynamics |
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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 |
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Priyoneel Basu, PhD, Department of Zoology, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, 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 |
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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 |
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Vashist Bist, PhD, Texas Instruments India Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru |
His outstanding contribution in the area of DC motor drives for low power applications |
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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 |
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Kunal Chakraborty, PhD, ESSO- Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), Hyderabad |
His outstanding contributions on modelling of marine ecosystem variability in the Indian Ocean |
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Swetaprovo Chaudhuri, PhD, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru |
Outstanding contributions in turbulent combustion laser diagnostics and high performance CFD computation |
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Debraj Choudhury, PhD, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur |
His insights into the physics of multi-ferroics and oxide systems, and the discovery of exceptional dielectric properties in a series of compounds |
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Srishti Dar, PhD, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 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 |
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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 signaling network |
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Yogeshwaran Dhandapani, PhD, Statistics and Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Bengaluru |
His significant work on asymptotic behavior of random complexes, topology of dynamic ErdЎs-Renyi clique complexes and asymptotics for geometric functionals of general point processes |
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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 |
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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 |
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Dinesh Jagadeesan, PhD, Physical and Materials Chemistry Division, CSIR- National Chemical Laboratory, Pune |
His approaches towards development of new catalysts and activation of CO2 |
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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 |
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Bodhisatta Nandy, PhD, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Behrampur |
Comprehensive experimental evidence, using the Drosophila model system, for the major tenets of the theory of sexual selection and inter-sexual conflict |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Uday Kumar B Reddy, PhD, Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru |
His stellar work in automatic parallelization in high performance computing |
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Aravind Kumar Rengan, PhD, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Hyderabad |
Devising a novel way of nano delivery using liposomes and gold nanoparticles, which is useful for both imaging and therapeutics |
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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 |
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Sunil Shetty, PhD, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland |
Providing novel insights about roles of the 3GC pairs in initiator tRNA in translation |
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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 |
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Devanjan Sinha, PhD, Department of Zoology, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, 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 |
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Jitendra Thakur, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research, Washington, USA |
Elucidating mechanisms of centromere and kinetochore formation in Candida species |
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Vikram Vishal, PhD, Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai |
His outstanding contributions on hydro-dynamics of fluid flow in unconventional reservoirs |
The Indian National Science Academy (INSA) was established in January 1935 with the object of promoting science in India and harnessing scientific knowledge for the cause of humanity and national welfare. The foundation of the Academy, earlier known as the National Institute of Sciences of India (NISI), was the outcome of joint endeavours of several organizations and individuals and the Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) playing a leading role in this regard.