Prof Abinandhan of Indian Institute of Science in his blog Nanopolitan has posted a good news today. It is about winners of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awards for the year 2007.
One of the them is Prof Pundi.Narashiman Rangarajan of Department of Biochemistry,IISc. He is well known for his works on DNA vaccines. Earlier he was awarded the Biotech Product and Process Development and Commercialization Award-2005 by DST for transferring recombinant Hepatitis B vaccine technology to Biological E. Ltd., Hyderabad leading to production of BEVAC. Prof PNR and Dr.G.Padmanabhan have developed the first combined DNA-based rabies vaccine for the control of rabies in dogs .
Prof P.N.Rangarajan's article on DNA VACCINES in Resonance is here
I found this intersting communication of Prof PNR on Waiting for the Nobel: Has IISc sacrificed experiment for research? to IISc faculties of Biochemistry,MCBL, MRDGand CES . He expressed that " Individual aspirations and institutional goals have been in conflict atmany of our national research organisations for far too long"