- Gagandeep Kang, executive director of the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), Faridabad has became the first Indian woman scientist Fellow of the Royal Society, London.
- Kang is known for her inter-disciplinary research and work in prevention of enteric infections and their sequelae in children in India.
- She has built national rotavirus and typhoid surveillance networks, established laboratories to support vaccine trials and conducted phase 1-3 clinical trials of vaccines.
- The list of Fellows of Fellow of the Royal Society also includes Canadian-American mathematician Manjul Bhargava who is R Brandon Fradd Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University, US. He is the winner of Fields Medal, dubbed as the Nobel prize of Mathematics.
- Ardaseer Cursetjee, a shipbuilder and engineer was the first Indian (1841) to be elected to the Royal Society and Srinivasa Ramanujan became the second. On 28 February, 1918 – Ramanujan, just 31, became the youngest Fellow in the history of the Royal Society.
About Royal Society
- The Royal Society’s fundamental purpose, reflected in its founding Charters of the 1660s, is to recognise, promote, and support excellence in science and to encourage the development and use of science for the benefit of humanity.
- The Society has played a part in some of the most fundamental, significant, and life-changing discoveries in scientific history and Royal Society scientists continue to make outstanding contributions to science in many research areas.
