Garikapati Narahari Sastry

Garikapati Narahari Sastry
Born	1966 Andhra Pradesh
Residence	India
Nationality	Indian
Fields	Chemistry, theoretical chemistry
Institutions	Indian Institute of Chemical Technology
Alma mater	Osmania University, University of Hyderabad
Doctoral advisor	Eluvathingal Devassy Jemmis
Known for	Molecular Modeling and Computer Aided Drug Design

Garikapati Narahari Sastry (Telugu: గరికపాటి నరహరి శాస్త్రి) is an Indian chemist. He heads the Molecular Modeling Division at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology in Hyderabad, India. Sastry has made pioneeing contributions in the areas of computational chemistry and computational biology.

He was awarded Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in 2011, the highest science award in India, in the chemical sciences category.^[1]

Education and Early works

Sastry did his B.Sc. and M.Sc in chemistry from Osmania University. He was awarded his PhD from University of Hyderabad. He did his postdoctoral work in Switzerland and Israel, before joining Department of Chemistry, Pondicherry University in December 1997. He moved to IICT in 2002.

Prizes and honours

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for 2011.
BM Birla Scientist prize for chemistry 2001^[2]
The Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship,
The Swarnajayanti Fellowship in 2005,
National Bioscience Award 2009^[3]
The CRSI Medal in 2010
Recipient of J. C. Bose National Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, 2015

Research highlights

Molecular Modeling and Computer Aided Drug Design

References

↑ "11 scientists selected for Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award" ibn live, Sep 26,2011
↑ http://www.indianexpress.com/news/organisms-objects-&-ocean-are-their-work/852772/2
↑ http://dbtindia.nic.in/PreviousYrAwardee.doc

Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Chemical Science

Recipients	T. R. Govindachari (1960) Asima Chatterjee (1961) S. C. Bhattacharyya (1962) B. D. Tilak (1963) Sukh Dev (1964) Sadhan Basu & R. C. Mehrotra (1965) N. A. Ramaiah (1966) Santappa (1967) C. N. R. Rao (1968) A. C. Jain (1969) P. T. Narasimhan (1970) M. M. Dhar (1971) S. V. Kessar & A. P. B. Sinha (1972) M. V. George & H. B. Mathur (1973) U. R. Ghatak & K. Nagarajan (1974) D. S. Bhakuni & Animesh Chakravorty (1975) Devadas Devaprabhakara (1976) Mihir Chowdhury & S. Ranganathan (1977) Girjesh Govil & Goverdhan Mehta (1978) D. Balasubramanian & B. M. Deb (1981) C. L. Khetrapal & G. S. R. Subba Rao (1982) Samaresh Mitra & Naba Kishore Ray (1983) Paramasivan Natarajan & K. J. Rao (1984) P. Balaram (1986) Debashis Mukherjee (1987) Kaushal Kishore (1988) Srinivasan Chandrasekaran & M. K. Chaudhuri (1989) B. M. Choudary & N. Sathyamurthy (1990) Biman Bagchi & J. S. Yadav (1991) Sumit Bhaduri & Suryanarayanasastry Ramasesha (1992) S. R. Gadre & T. Ramasami (1993) E. D. Jemmis & D. D. Sarma (1994) Jayaraman Chandrasekhar & K. L. Sebastian (1995) Narayanan Chandrakumar & Mariappan Periasamy (1996) Kankan Bhattacharyya & Adusumilli Srikrishna (1997) A. R. Chakravarty & K. N. Ganesh (1998) Sourav Pal (2000) Uday Maitra (2001) Murali Sastry (2002) T. K. Chakraborty (2003) Srinivasan Sampath & K. George Thomas (2006) Amalendu Chandra & A. Ajayghosh (2007) Thalappil Pradeep & Jarugu Narasimha Moorthy (2008) Charusita Chakravarty & Narayanaswamy Jayaraman(2009) Swapan K Pati & Sandeep Verma (2010) Balasubramanian Sundaram & Garikapati Narahari Sastry (2011) Yamuna Krishnan (2013) Kavirayani Ramakrishna Prasad & Souvik Maiti (2014) Pradyut Ghosh & D Srinivasa Reddy (2015)

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