Dr Siddhesh Kamat, an Affiliate Professor within the Division of Biology at Indian Institute of Science Training and Analysis (IISER), Pune, has been awarded the 2024 Infosys Prize within the Life Sciences class.
The announcement was made on Thursday by the Infosys Science Basis at an occasion in Bengaluru. The Infosys Prize 2024 in Life Sciences was awarded to Dr Kamat for his discoveries regarding bioactive lipids and their receptors, and their metabolic and signaling pathways.
His analysis, utilizing superior strategies to know the perform of lipids, a key part of cells, has necessary implications for understanding the position of those molecules in a spread of mobile capabilities and human ailments.
The Infosys Science Basis instituted the prize in 2009 in six classes to recognise the accomplishments of people whose analysis and scholarship considerably affect India. The prize for every class contains a gold medal, a quotation, and a prize quantity of USD 100,000 (or its equal in INR).
Dr Kamat’s analysis group works on the organic mechanisms of lipid signalling pathways within the mammalian nervous and immune methods. A spotlight space is to annotate enzymes and receptors that regulate the biology of the lipid signalling pathways and supply new insights and therapeutic paradigms.
When contacted, Dr Kamat advised The Indian Categorical that the award was a recognition for the work finished by your complete group within the lab. “The purpose is to supply new insights and therapeutic paradigms for orphan and/or rising human neurological and immunological ailments,” he stated.
Dr Kamat accomplished his BTech from the din 2007 and a PhD from the Division of Chemistry at Texas A&M College in 2012. He was the ninth Irving S. Sigal Postdoctoral fellow of the American Chemical Society on the Division of Chemical Physiology, the Scripps Analysis Institute. He joined IISER, Pune in 2016.
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