Dr Indrani Karunasagar attends UNESCO Award Ceremony as Chair of International Jury

Dr Indrani Karunasagar attends UNESCO Award Ceremony as Chair of International Jury

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangaluru, Mar 15, 2023: Dr Indrani Karunasagar, Director of Nitte University (Deemed-to-be) who is also the head of the International Jury for the UNESCO- Equatorial Guinea International Life Science Prize, recently attended the UNESCO Award ceremony held at Equatorial Guinea, Africa.

 

UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea International Life Science Prize is a very prestigious prize awarded annually to acclaimed scientists globally who have made notable scientific contributions. UNESCO calls for nominations for the award and a distinguished International Jury makes selection of scientists for this award. Dr. Indrani Karunasagar, Director, Nitte University has been Member of the five member International Jury since 2014. For the selection of awardees for the year 2022, Dr. Indrani Karunasagar, Chair of the International Jury, selected the following scientists for the 2022 UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea International Life Science Prize – Dr. Mosaad Attia Abdel-Wahhab from National Research Center, Egypt; Dr. Almira Ramanaviciene from Center of Nanotechnology and Material Science, Vilnius University, Lithuania; Dr. Ibrokhim Abdurakhmonov from the Center of Genomics and Bioinformatics, Uzbekistan; Prof. Yigong Shi, President, Westlake University, China.

 Prof. Dr. Indrani Karunasagar attended the meeting at UNESCO, Paris on March 7 this year and was joined by UNESCO officials on a chartered flight to Equatorial Guinea the next day. She addressed the Equatorial Guinea University students, faculty  along with the Laureates on March 9.

 As Chair of the International Jury, Dr. Indrani Karunasagar had a pride of place for the grand award ceremony held at Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, on March 10 which was attended by the President of Equatorial Guinea, Heads of several African States and Ambassadors of several countries including the Indian Ambassador  to UNESCO, and the Ambassador to Equatorial Guinea. Each laureate received $100,000 as prize money for research in life science from the UNESCO.

In the photo, Dr. Indrani Karunasagar is seen with the UNESCO Life Science Laureates.