Sekhar Chakrabarti (b.18.11.1952), PhD, Deputy Director (Sr Grade), National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases, P-33 CIT Road, Scheme XM, Beleghata, Kolkata 700010.

Outstanding contributions to development of a new vaccinia virus expression system for developing an effective vaccine against HIV.

Kandala Venkata Ramana Chary (b.10.02.1954), PhD, Professor & Chairman, Department of Chemical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba, Mumbai 400005.

For major contributions in developing novel methods for determining the structure of poorly structured biomacromolecules using NMR.

Subhasis Chaudhuri (b.01.03.1963), PhD, Professor and Dean (International Relations), Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076.

For his outstanding contributions in Computer Vision particularly in problems of recovering depth from defocus and  improving resolution in images.

Saumitra Das (b.20.01.1962), PhD, Professor, Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Sir CV Raman Avenue, Bangalore 560012.

For his work in elucidating the mechanisms involved in understanding the unique aspects of Hepatitis C virus biology and development of reagents to target virus multiplication.

Aparna Dutta Gupta (b.11.05.1953), PhD, Professor, Department of Animal Sciences, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 500046.

For her original contributions to the area of hexamerin receptors and their role in juvenile hormone action in insects.

Sanjeev Anant Galande (b.20.09.1967), PhD,  Scientist E, National Centre for Cell Science, NCCS Complex, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411007.

For his original contributions to chromatin organization in animal cellular processes.

Subrata Ghosh (b.08.04.1950), PhD, Senior Professor and Dean (Administration), Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A & B, Raja SC Mullick Road, Jadavpur, Kolkata 700032.

“For his outstanding contributions in the area of organic synthesis, particularly total synthesis of structurally complex natural products”.

Anil Kumar Gupta (b.02.11.1960), PhD, Director, Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, 33, General Mahadeo Singh Road, Dehra Dun 248001.

For major contributions to Neogene and Quarternary micropalaeontology, palaeoceanography and palaeoclimatology. His work on palaeomonsoon and palaeoceanography of the Indian ocean has provided new insights into the past climate of the Indian region.

Keerikkattil Paily Joy (b.18.02.1950), PhD, Head & Co-ordinator, CAS, Department of Zoology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005.

For his outstanding and consistent contribution to our understanding of role of catechol estrogens in fish reproductive events like oocyte maturation and gonadotropin secretion.

Avinash Khare (b.23.07.1954), PhD, Professor, Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007.

For his outstanding and pioneering contributions in a number of areas of plasma physics including tokamak stability, pure election plasma dynamics and statistical aspects of dusty plasmas.

Ravinder Kumar Kohli (b.02.12.1953), PhD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Botany and Coordinator Environment Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014.

Ravinder Kumar Kohli has made outstanding contributions in the field of physiological ecology. He has elegantly elucidated the impact of allelopathy and plant invasion on the diversity of native species. His studies have opened up new vistas in weed management research.

Saluru Baba Krupanidhi (b.01.07.1951), PhD, Professor, Materials Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012.

For his outstanding contributions to the development of thin films science & technology of ferroelectric and compound semiconductor materials.

Umesh Chandra Lavania (b.08.07.1952), PhD, DSc, Scientist G & Head, Division of Genetics & Plant Breeding, Central Institute of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants, PO CIMAP, Lucknow 226015.

Umesh Chandra Lavania has made outstanding contributions in the field of plant cytogenetics with regard to fixation of heterozygosity and stability of polyploids.  He has applied novel techniques to study chromosome structure and behaviour in plants.  He has translated this knowledge to genetic improvement of plants.

Parthasarathi Mitra (b.15.09.1951), PhD, Professor, Theory Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Block-AF, Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata 700064.

For his fundamental contributions to black-hole physics and anomalies, especially on extremal black-hole entropy and chiral guage theories, and his impressive breadth and depth in quantum field theory.

Viswanathan Mohan (b.10.04.1954), MBBS, MD, PhD, DSc, Chairman & Chief Diabetologist, Dr Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre & Director & Chief, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, ICMR Advanced Centre for Genomics of Diabetes, No 6B, Conran Smith Road, Gopalapuram, Chennai 600086.

Described Mohan’s criteria for Fibrocalculus Pancreatic diabetes, established high throughput genetic studies and identified the ‘Asian Indian Phenotype’ that helped to explain increased susceptibility of Indians to Diabetes.

Akshay Kumar Pradhan (b.11.08.1956), PhD, Professor, Department of Genetics, University of Delhi, South Campus, Benito Juarez Road, New Delhi 110021.

For his pioneering contribution to the development of high density molecular map of Brassica juncea. His work on B. juncea also led to the development of first ever CMS-based hybrid DMH-1 in India.

Sanjay Puri (b.23.11.1961), PhD, Professor, School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067.

For his outstanding contributions to the statistical mechanics of far-from-equilibrium systems. His studies of the kinetics of phase transitions, phase separation in confined geometries and dynamics of granular systems have explained and motivated many experiments.

Balaji Sundar Rajan (b.07.03.1958), PhD, INAE Chair Professor, Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012.

For contributions to coding theory and to space-time coding for multi-antenna wireless communications, leading to efficient and  low complexity codes for practical wireless systems.

Ram Rajasekharan (b.25.12.1960), PhD, Director, Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Kukrail Picnic Spot Road, PO CIMAP, Lucknow 226015.

Ram Rajasekharan has made pioneering contributions to the biology of plant neutral lipids (fats and oils).  He has discovered alternative pathways for triacylglycerol biosynthesis and has identified targets for improving the quality and quantity of plant oils. He has also translated this knowledge for commercial applications.

Upadrasta Ramamurty (b.15.07.1967), PhD, Professor, Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012.

For his work on deformation behaviour of advanced materials in particular, those related to foam and metallic glasses.

Poonam Salotra (b.08.10.1955), PhD, Deputy Director, Scientist E, Institute of Pathology (ICMR), Safdarjung Hospital Campus, Post Box No 4909, New Delhi 110029.

For her significant contributions to understanding the basic and clinical aspects of leishmaniasis including genomics, vaccine development, therapeutics and diagnosis.

Anindya Sarkar (b.01.01.1959), PhD, Professor, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302.

For using stable isotopes to decipher past climate in deep time using foraminiferal and dinosaur fossils to throw light on climatic processes at geological boundaries. He has also established a new stable isotope facility.

Sandeep Sen (b.24.05.1962), PhD, Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016.

For contributions to the design and analysis of sequential and parallel algorithms for combinatorial and computational geometry problems.

Harkesh Bahadur Singh (b.01.03.1956), PhD, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076.

“For his significant contributions to the area of organochalcogen (Se, Te) chemistry and development of selenoenzyme glutathione peroxidase mimetics”.

Ranbir Chander Sobti (b.19.08.1948), PhD, Vice-Chancellor, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014.

For his significant contributions to the area of genomics of cancer.

Deepak Chandra Srivastava (b.10.01.1956), PhD, Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee, Roorkee 247667.

For contributions in various sub disciplines of structural geology by integrating field data , strain determination, modeling and computer applications.

Venapally Suresh (b.20.06.1966), PhD, Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 500046.

Professor Venapally Suresh has made outstanding contributions to quadratic forms and algebraic geometry. The most impressive results of Suresh include the proof of a long standing conjecture on the value of the u-invariant of the function field of a curve over a local field and establishing the local-global principle for a wide class of homogeneous spaces of algebraic groups. His work has opened up new avenues of research and inspired leading mathematicians in the area.

Sandip Parimal Trivedi (b.05.04.1963), PhD, Professor, Department of Theoretical Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Dr Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba, Mumbai 400005.

For his deep and significant contribution in the areas of superstring cosmology, black-hole physics and supersymmetry breaking, especially for his demonstration that accelerating universe can arise in string theory.

Sukumaran Vasudevan (b.01.11.1953), PhD, Professor, Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012.

For his influential contributions to the investigation of the behavior of molecules constrained in inorganic host structures.

Subramanian Yashonath (b.09.10.1956), PhD, Professor, Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012.

For his computational investigations of diffusion through porous media and levitation effect.