Avadhesha Surolia earned his Ph.D. degree from Madras University in 1976. He discovered novel blood group and tumor antigen-specific lectins and made an original contribution to clarifying the energetics and mechanism of protein-sugar recognition. He popularized Protein A as a tool in immunology. He discovered the broad substrate specificity of a key enzyme of biotin biosynthesis from M. Tuberculosis. He was conferred an Honorary D Sc degree by Queen's University, Belfast, UK. He is the only Indian member of the International Glycoconjugate Organization. Dr. Surolia is the recipient of the S.S. Bhatnagar award in 1987; Om Prakash Bhasin Award for Biotechnology in 1993; B.K. Bachhawat Memorial Award 2007.

Samit Adhya obtained his Ph.D. from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, in 1981. His research interest includes research on the transport of RNA molecules across mitochondrial membranes. His group showed that RIC is taken up and targeted to mitochondria of human cells in a biologically active form, inducing the import of intracellular tRNAs and correcting the respiratory defect caused by a pathogenic mitochondrial tRNA mutation. He participated in the CSIR-CNRS Collaborative Project on Genome Mapping of old world Leishmania (2000). He was elected a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore.

15-19 May, 2022

At New Orleans, LA