7 IITs, IISc faculty members win Shanti Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize 2022

NEW DELHI: The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has announced the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awards today, September 11. The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award is distributed to 12 young scientists across the country. This comes amid a row over government's plans to prune National Science Awards.

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan congratulated the faculty members of IISC Banglore, IIT Gandhinagar, IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay and IIT Madras who have been honoured with the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science & Technology 2022.

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The award is a testament of their outstanding contributions towards furthering human knowledge and progress as well as excellence in the field of applied research. The award is given every year to scientists under the age of 45 years.

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awards for 2022: List of awardees

Biology

Ashwani Kumar, CSIR – Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh (Biology)

M Maddika Subba Reddy, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad

Chemistry

Akkattu Biju, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

Debabrta Maiti, IIT Bombay

Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences

Vimal Mishra, IIT Gandhinagar

Engineering

Dipti Ranjan Sahoo, IIT Delhi

Rajnish Kumar, IIT Madras

Mathematics

Apoorva Khare, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

Neeraj Kayal, Microsoft Research Lab, India

Medicine

Dipyaman Ganguli, CSIR Indian Institute of Chemical Biology

Physics

Anindya Das, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

Basudeb Dasgupta, TIFR Mumbai