Vishweshwaraiah Prakash

Vishweshwaraiah Prakash
Born 23 November 1951
Karnataka, India
Occupation Structural biologist
Food technologist
Known for Food technology
Awards Padma Shri
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
MY Golden Jubilee Award
P. S. Sarma Memorial Award
Laljee Godhoo Smarak Nidhi Award
Rajyotsava Prashasthi
Independence Golden Jubilee Award
Prof. V. Subramanyan Industrial Achievement Award
CFTRI Best Alumnus Award
Soilendra Krishna Mitra Memorial Award
DuPont Protein Technologies International Award
FICCI Award
Kashalkar Memorial Award
GoK Lifetime Achievement Award
SCI Lifetime Achievement Award
IUoFST Lifetime Achievement Award

Vishweshwaraiah Prakash is an Indian structural biologist, food technologist and a former director-general designate of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).[1] He is a former director of the Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore[2] and was involved with the International Union of Food Science and Technology as the chairman of its International Academy during 2008-10.[3] He received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, the highest Indian award in the science and technology category in 1996.[4] The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 2004,[5]

Biography

Prakash was born in the south Indian state of Karnataka on 23 November 1951,[4] graduated (BSc) from Mysore University and followed it up with a master's degree (MS) from the same institution.[6] Later, he secured his doctoral degree (PhD) from University of Mysore in 1976 and, obtaining a fellowship, he moved to US in 1976 and did post-doctoral research at Texas Medical Centre in Houston and Brandeis University, Boston till 1980.[6][7] He returned to India in 1981 and joined Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) as a Pool Officer at their Mysore research unit, Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI). He served the organization for several years and became its director in 1994.[7] He headed the centre for 13 years till his appointment as the director-general of CSIR in December 2006 and was supposed to take charge in January 2007, but did not assume office.[8] In 2008,[2] he was selected as the president of the International Academy of the International Union of Food Science and Technology (IAFoST), a global association of food technologists and held the office till 2010.[3]

Prakash is known to have done extensive research in structural homology of seed proteins and the association-dissociation and denaturation profiles of these proteins. His work is reported to have assisted in the understanding of the behaviour of several seed proteins from a stability perspective and revealed more about their structural biology.[4] His research findings have been documented by way of over 200 articles published in CFTRI publications<ref name="Items where Author is "Vishweshwaraiah, Prakash"">"Items where Author is "Vishweshwaraiah, Prakash"". CFTRI. 2015. Retrieved November 16, 2015. </ref> and other peer reviewed national and international journals.[9] His researches are known to have wide-ranging applications in commercial food industry and he holds 50 patents,[10] some of them on preserved sugar cane juice, coconut sap (Neera) and baked snacks.[11] Besides, he has written six books and 20 review chapters;[12] Leafy spices, a reference guide on the botanical and agricultural aspects of agro-products yielding essential oils of leafy spices, is one among them.[13] During his tenure as the head of CFTRI, he established the Advanced School of Protein Chemistry and Technology, for advanced research.[2] His contributions are also reported behind the CFTRI initiative to supply 200,000 food packages to the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami that hit the Indian coasts, along with other areas.[2]

Prakash serves as the president of two major food-related organizations, namely, the International Society of Nutraceuticals And Nutritionals (ISNAN), and Indian Academy of Nutraceuticals and Nutritionals (IANAN), and is a former president of the Nutrition Society of India (NSI).[14] During his stint at CFTRI, he coordinated the activities of the United Nations University at the institution and chaired the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) panel on Food Losses and Food Wastes[15] as well as the FAO High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE).[12] He serves as a member of the Editorial Board of Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, a journal published by the Institute of Food Technologists,[16] chairs the Advisory Board of the NuFFooDS Magazine,[15] and sits in the executive editorial Board of the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, published by John Wiley & Sons.[17] He is an IUoFST visiting faculty at Saigon Technology University and an adjunct professor of Nutrition at the Tufts University, Boston.[15] He chairs the Task Force on Nutritionals and Nutraceuticals of International Union of Nutritional Sciences and Technology and the Research Advisory Committee of the Central Institute of Fisheries Technology (CIFT), Kochi. He is also a member-at-large of the Global Harmonization Initiative (GHI), a scientific community facilitating scientific advancement in food technology.[18]

Awards and honours

Indian Academy of Sciences elected Prakash as their fellow in 1995[19] and National Academy of Agricultural Sciences followed suit in 1998.[20] The National Academy of Sciences, India honoured him with Fellowship in 2002[21] and the next year, the Royal Society of Chemistry elected him as a Fellow.[15] He is also an elected Fellow of the International Union of Food Science and Technology,[3] Indian National Academy of Engineering,[22] Indian Academy of Social Sciences and the Association of Food Scientists and Technologists, India (2008).[15][20]

Prakash, a Distinguished Scientist of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research,[14] is reported to have received over 55 awards including award lectures,[15] starting with the 1988 Golden Jubilee Award of Mysore University, followed by P. S. Sarma Memorial Award of the Society of Biological Chemists (India) in 1989[23] and Laljee Godhoo Smarak Nidhi Award of the Association of Food Scientists and Technologists, India in 1992.[20] He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize of the CSIR, the highest Indian science award, in 1996[4] and the Government of Karnataka awarded him the second highest civilian award of the state, Rajyotsava Prashasthi, the same year.[15] He received the Indian Independence Golden Jubilee Award in 1997 and two awards, Prof. V. Subramanyan Industrial Achievement Award and CFTRI Best Alumnus Award, in 1999. All India Food Processors' Association (AIFPA) honoured him with Soilendra Krishna Mitra Memorial Award in 2000 and the year 2001 brought him two more awards, DuPont Protein Technologies International Award and FICCI Award in Life Sciences and Agriculture, followed by Kashalkar Memorial Award in 2003.[20]

The Government of India included Prakash in the 2004 Republic Day honours list for the civilian honour of the Padma Shri.[5] The Government of Karnataka honoured him again with Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012[20] and the Lifetime Achievement Award of SCI, UK reached him in 2013,[10] the same year as he received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Union of Food Science and Technology.[6] 38th B.C. Guha Memorial Lecture Award of the Indian Science Congress (2001), 6th Golden Jubilee Commemorative Talk Award of the Central Institute of Fisheries Technology (2007), 19th Srikantia Memorial Lecture Award of Nutrition Society of India (2007), C. Ramachandran Memorial Lecture Award of NFI (2007) and Dr. Rajammal P. Devdas's Oration Lecture Award of the Avinashilingam University for Women, (2009) are some of the notable orations delivered by him.[20]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Dr Vishweshwaraiah Prakash will be the new DG". NAL. 2015. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Indian to head international food science and technology body". India Today. 15 October 2008. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 "Presidents of the Academy (IAFoST)". International Union of Food Science and Technology. 2015. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2015. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  5. 1 2 "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Retrieved July 21, 2015.
  6. 1 2 3 "Prakash Receives Lifetime Achievement Award". Chemistry Views. 19 November 2013. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  7. 1 2 "Zoom Info profile". Zoom Info. 2015. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  8. ↑ "List of Former DGs". Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2015. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  9. ↑ "PUBLICATIONS AUTHORED BY VISHWESHWARAIAH PRAKASH". Pubfacts. 2015. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  10. 1 2 "Dr Vishweshwaraiah Prakash receives Lifetime Achievement Award". SCI. 6 December 2013. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  11. ↑ "Patents by Inventor Vishweshwaraiah Prakash". Justia Patents. 2015. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  12. 1 2 "High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE)" (PDF). Food and Agricultural Organization. 3 September 2013. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
  13. ↑ Vishweshwaraiah Prakash (1990). Leafy spices. CRC Press. p. 114. ISBN 9780849367236.
  14. 1 2 "OFFICE BEARERS" (PDF). Nutrition Society of India. 2015. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
  15. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Jain International Residential School profile" (PDF). Jain International Residential School. 2015. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
  16. ↑ "Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety". Institute of Food Technologists 12 (3). May 2013. ISSN 1541-4337.
  17. ↑ "Executive editorial board". Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. 2015. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
  18. ↑ "GHI Officers". Global Harmonization Initiative. 2015. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  19. ↑ "IAS Fellows". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2015. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
  20. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "NAAS Fellow". National Academy of Agricultural Sciences. 2015. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
  21. ↑ "NASI Fellows". National Academy of Sciences, India. 2015. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
  22. ↑ "INAE Fellows". Indian National Academy of Engineering. 2015. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
  23. ↑ "P. S. Sarma Memorial Award". Society Of Biological Chemists. 2015. Retrieved November 17, 2015.

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