Indian-American scientist wins Springer Theses Award
Sunday, 29/05/2016
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Singapore: An Indian-American scientist has received the prestigious Springer Theses Award in recognition for his outstanding research in which he developed transgenic mice to study a critical tumor-suppressor called A20.
Arnab De’s thesis was nominated by New York’s Columbia University. Before this, De, who has also developed pep tide-based prod rugs as therapeutics for diabetes, had received the Young Investigator Award at the American Pep tide Symposium. The thesis prize is awarded by Springer, a leading global publisher of renowned scientific journals and books, to recognize outstanding PhD research.
Internationally top-ranked research institutes select their best thesis annually for publication in the book series: “Springer Theses: Recognising Outstanding PhD research”. Additionally, winners also get a cash prize of 500 euros.
The research work was highlighted by the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Reports. Only research considered to be of ‘fundamental relevance to a general readership’ is chosen to be highlighted by EMBO.
