Dr. Firdausi Qadri
AFFILIATION International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) SUMMARY OF WINNING ENTRY For Innovative Improvement of Oral Cholera Vaccination in Developing Countries Dr. Firdausi Qadri has played a key role in improving vaccination against cholera, a severe diarrheal disease due to the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, that occurs after ingestion of contaminated food or water […]
Professor Gurdev Singh Khush
AFFILIATION International Rice Research Institute, Philippines and University of California, Davis, USA SUMMARY OF WINNING ENTRY Discovery and implementation of disease-resistant rice The agricultural revolution was greatly propelled by the efforts of Professor Gurdev Singh Khush and Professor Xuan Vo-Tong in inventing and advancing disease-resistant rice varieties, contributing to the strengthening of global food security. […]
Professor Xuan Vo-Tong
AFFILIATION Nam Can Tho University, Vietnam SUMMARY OF WINNING ENTRY Advancing disease-resistant rice varieties, ensuring global food security The agricultural revolution was greatly propelled by the efforts of Professor Gurdev Singh Khush and Professor Xuan Vo-Tong in inventing and advancing disease-resistant rice varieties, contributing to the strengthening of global food security. Professor Vo-Tong has played […]
Professor Thalappil Pradeep
BIOGRAPHY Institute Professor Deepak Parekh Institute Chair Professor and Professor of Chemistry Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras Prof. Thalappil Pradeep is an Institute Professor* and Professor of Chemistry. He is also an Institute Chair Professor. He has conceptualized and built the International Centre for Clean Water (www.iccwindia.org), a new initiative of IIT […]
Professor Quarraisha Abdool Karim
BIOGRAPHY Affiliation at the time of the award: Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine University of KwaZulu-Natal & Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Ph.D., is an infectious disease epidemiologist whose primary research focuses on understanding the evolving […]
Professor Salim S. Abdool Karim
BIOGRAPHY Affiliation at the time of the award: Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine University of KwaZulu-Natal & Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Salim S. Abdool Karim, FRS, is an infectious diseases epidemiologist widely recognised for his contributions to HIV […]
