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Infosys Prize

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Infosys Prize

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Infosys Prize
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Nov 15, 2022
#InfosysPrize2022 in Life Sciences is awarded to Vidita Vaidya, @TIFRScience, for her fundamental contributions to understanding brain mechanisms that underlie mood disorders such as anxiety and depression, including signals engaged by the neurotransmitter serotonin... (1/2)
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Nov 14, 2024
#InfosysPrize2024 in Mathematical Sciences is awarded to Prof. Neena Gupta of @ISIKolkata for her work on the Zariski Cancellation Problem, a fundamental problem in algebraic geometry first posed in 1949 by Oscar Zariski, one of the founders of modern algebraic geometry. In 2014
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Dec 2, 2024
Prof. Neena Gupta's resolution of the Zariski Cancellation Problem is a landmark achievement in affine algebraic geometry, which examines polynomial structures and their geometric properties. The problem asks whether an algebraic object, which becomes isomorphic to a polynomial
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Nov 14, 2024
#InfosysPrize2024 in Life Sciences is awarded to Prof. Siddhesh Kamat, @KamatLab_IISER, of @IISERPune for his discoveries concerning bioactive lipids and their receptors, and their metabolic and signaling pathways. His research using advanced methods to understand the function of
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Jan 31, 2023
A paper strip + a drop of blood + an app = result for haemoglobin levels in a patient. All this, operated by a grassroots health worker. Infosys Prize laureate Suman Chakraborty's research holds key to revolutionalizing diagnostic care.
Suman Chakraborty Is Revolutionising Rural Healthcare
From rediff.com
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Jan 7, 2023
"Nature is often fleeting and reveals herself in small glimpses. I have a certain enthusiasm and passion in finding these moments and sharing them with the world." - #InfosysPrize2022 laureate in Life Sciences, Vidita Vaidya, @TIFRScience @ViditaVaidya
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Nov 15, 2023
#InfosysPrize2023 in Physical Sciences is awarded to Mukund Thattai, @NCBS_Bangalore, in recognition of his groundbreaking contributions to evolutionary cell biology.
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Nov 15, 2023
#InfosysPrize2023 in Life Sciences is awarded to @arshukla, @IITKanpur, for his outstanding contributions to the biology of G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), a key component of cell function.
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Nov 15, 2022
#InfosysPrize2022 in Social Sciences is awarded to Rohini Pande, @Yale, for her outstanding research on subjects of key importance, including governance and accountability, women’s empowerment, the role of credit in the lives of the poor, and environment. infosysprize.org/media/announce…
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Nov 15, 2022
#InfosysPrize2022 in Humanities is awarded to Sudhir Krishnaswamy, @NLSIUofficial, for his insightful understanding of the Indian Constitution, especially his carefully argued account of the importance of the landmark ‘basic structure doctrine’. @krishnaswamysud
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Nov 14, 2024
#InfosysPrize2024 in Humanities and Social Sciences is awarded to Prof. Mahmood Kooria, @MahmoodKooria, of @EdinburghUni and @AshokaUniv for his truly outstanding and seminal contributions to the study of maritime Islam in a global perspective, with particular focus on Kerala in
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Nov 15, 2022
#InfosysPrize2022 in Engineering & Computer Science is awarded to Suman Chakraborty, @iitkgp, for his pioneering work in elucidating the interaction of fluid mechanics, interfacial phenomena, and electromechanics at the micro- and nanoscale. infosysprize.org/media/announce…
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Nov 15, 2022
#InfosysPrize2022 in Physical Sciences is awarded to Nissim Kanekar, @TIFRScience, for his study of galaxies in an era, the so-called “high noon” period, in which stars were being formed at a maximum rate. infosysprize.org/media/announce…
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Nov 15, 2023
#InfosysPrize2023 in Humanities is awarded to historian @JahnaviPhalkey, @SciGalleryBlr, for her brilliant and granular insights into the individual, institutional, and material histories of scientific research in modern India.
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