Satyajit Mayor, Director of the National Centre for Biological Sciences, has been elected as a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.
Of the 21 foreign associates of the non-profit science organisation elected recently, there are only two Indians, including Dr. Mayor whose research focusses on the interaction between cells and its environs.
The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award winner now joins an academy with over 2,250 members, 200 of whom are Nobel Prize winners. K. Vijay Raghavan, Secretary of the Department of Science and Technology, who was part of the NAS, said the election was “a recognition of extraordinary science” that had come from Dr. Mayor’s lab.
Bharat Ratna C.N.R. Rao, professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advance Scientific Research, is the first Indian to be elected as a corresponding member of the Australian Academy of Science.
He has also been chosen as an honorary member of the Nepal Academy of Science and Technology.
