Dear All, ELSEVIER & NASI are pleased to announce the winners of the NASI SCOPUS YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARDS 2010. The awards were given away by Prof. T Ramasami, Secretary, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India on the 21st of March, 2011 at New Delhi. Prof. Manju Sharma, past President of National Academy of Sciences represented the Academy at the occasion. Applicants were evaluated in two stages based on key criteria such as publication output, citations and other metrics based on Scopus data, as well as research quality and impact by forty-eight panelists. The winners of the NASI SCOPUS YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARDS 2010 are as follows: Agriculture - Dr. Rajeev K Varshney, International Crops Research Institute for Semi Arid Tropics, Hyderabad Biological Sciences - Dr. Debnath Pal (Indian Institute of Science) & Dr. Ravishankar Ravichandran (Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow) Chemistry - Dr. Souvik Maiti (Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology, Delhi) Earth & Environmental Sciences - Dr. Madineni Venkat Ratnam (National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Tirupati) & Dr S Venkata Mohan (Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad) Engineering - Dr. Parag R. Gogate (Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai) & Dr. Bikramjit Basu(Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur) Medicine - Dr. Naval K. Vikram, (All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi) Physics - Dr. P.S Anil Kumar (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore) & Dr. Priya Mahadevan (S N Bose National Centre For Basic Sciences, Kolkata) We would like to thank all applicants for sending in their applications. Watch out for the announcement of this year's awards in June/July 2011. Thanks & regards, Padma Muralidharan Senior Manager - Account Development Elsevier India (Science & Technology) 14th Floor, Building 10B, DLF Cyber City, Phase II, Gurgaon - 122 002 Email : p.muralidharan@elsevier.com mailto:p.muralidharan@elsevier.com Phone : +91-124-4774202 l +91-9810739993 For all information regarding Elsevier, please visit http://southasia.elsevier.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------- This communication is confidential and may be privileged. Any unauthorized use or dissemination of this message in whole or in part is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you receive this message by mistake, please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete this message from your system. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.