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Upadhyayula Suryanarayana Murty, Chief Scientist and Head-Biology Division of CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad has bagged the ICMR prize for biomedical research conducted in underdeveloped areas for the year 2010.
The award has been instituted by the ICMR Council in 1983 to scientists who have contributed significantly in any field of biomedical sciences in underdeveloped areas.
Prof. U.S.N. Murty is conferred with this award in recognition of his outstanding contribution in the area of integrated control of vectors and vector borne diseases like malaria, filariasis and Japanese encephalitis in the north-eastern states.
His research group has successfully executed several research programmes in Assam, Manipur, Mizoram, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh etc.,
The award carries a citation and a cash prize of Rs 20,000 to be presented by Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad.
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