Overview
- Selected from 212 nominations across 27 states by an international jury, the winners will be honored at a December ceremony in Mumbai.
- Food Security: NCBS’s P. V. Shivaprasad is applying epigenetic engineering and small RNA methods to create rice lines with stronger stress tolerance and better nutrition.
- Sustainability: IISc’s Balasubramanian Gopal is developing an AI-guided, E. coli–based biomanufacturing platform to produce key chemicals without antibiotics or harmful additives.
- Healthcare: IISc’s Ambarish Ghosh is advancing magnetically steered nanorobots and imaging tools for targeted delivery of cancer therapies.
- Gopal said the prize will fund fine-tuning and pre‑commercial testing, allowing his team to focus on scaling the core technology over the next three years.