MERA RAJYA MERA ABHIMAN

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Contribution in science has been very significant. Fact file based on the LIFE
RESEARCH of scientists and how its significance contributed to mankind.
 SHIVA BALAK MISRA
Shiva Balak Misra is an Indian geologist, writer and social
worker born on March 1, 1940 in Barabanki
district of Uttar Pradesh in India and is known for his
contribution to the knowledge of earliest life forms on
earth.

In 1968, Misra made the discovery

of Ediacaran fossils attributed as the
oldest multicellular life on Earth, The area of the
formation containing the fossils was protected as
the Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve in 1984, and
declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2016. The
fossils were later named after Misra in 2007
as Fractofusus misrai.

In 1969, Misra returned from Canada after completing his

MS Degreee and established a school near his native
village Deora in Barabanki district in India[10] and
continues to serve this school until today.
During this geological mapping, in the summer of 1967, he
discovered a rich assemblage of imprints of soft-bodied
organisms on the surface of large rock slabs in
the Conception Group of Avalon Peninsula of
Newfoundland at Mistaken Point. These were unusual
impressions of previously unknown soft-bodied sea
animals on the surfaces of Argillite (mudstone)
included Coelenterates and other Metazoa of
the Ediacaran.

The discovery was reported in 1968 in a

paper [12][13] in Nature. Later, Misra described the
Mistaken Point Fauna in more detail in 1969, in another
paper [14][15] published in the Bulletin of the Geological
Society of America. He described the fossil assemblage
into groups namely:

Spindle-shaped Leaf-shaped Round lobate Dendrite like

Radiating.
 AMITA AGGARWAL

Amita Aggarwal (born 1960) is an Indian clinical immunologist, rheumatologist

and a professor at the Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology of
the Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences. Known for her
studies in autoimmune rheumatic diseases, Aggarwal is a recipient of the
Shakuntala Amir Chand Award of the Indian Council of Medical Research and
an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India as well as
the National Academy of Medical Sciences. The Department of Biotechnology of
the Government of India awarded her the National Bioscience Award for Career
Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for her contributions to
biosciences in 2004.

Amita Aggarwal, born in 1960, earned her medical degree of MBBS as well as a
post-graduate degree from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi and
secured the degree of DM in clinical immunology from Sanjay Gandhi
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI). Her career started at SGPGI
as a member of faculty in 1996 and she holds the position of a professor at the
Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology. In between, she did
advanced training in rheumatology at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1995 on
an APLAR fellowship and at the University of Oklahoma Health Science
Center on a research associateship from the Department of Biotechnology
 Aggarwal, who is known for her research in the field
of autoimmune rheumatic diseases, has identified the presence of IgM
rheumatoid factor demonstrated by ELISA is an indicator of a severe
clinical expression of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.[4] She also
postulated that the activation of complement by an alternate pathway
is more important than activation by the classical pathway in the
pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis and these findings have assisted
in a wider understanding of autoimmune rheumatic diseases such
as Juvenile idiopathic arthritis and their pathogenesis. Her studies
have been documented by way of a number of articles[note
1] and ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has
listed 384 of them.

Aggarwal heads the regional diagnostic centre of the Foundation for

Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases (FPID), an international
organization established to combat primary
immunodeficiencies (PID). She is the resource person for PID Facilities
in India[8] and is the president of the Indian Rheumatology
Association.[9] She is also the national coordinator for India of the
Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organization and has
conducted several workshops and courses of the Indian Council of
Medical Research (ICMR) in rheumatology.
 KAILAS NATH KAUL

Kailas Nath Kaul (1905–1983) was an

Indian botanist, naturalist, agricultural
scientist, horticulturist, herbalist, plant
collector and herpetologist, and a world authority
on Arecaceae. He founded India's National Botanical Research
Institute and was instrumental in organizing the country's
modern scientific infrastructure. He is regarded as a vital
influence behind his niece Indira Gandhi's proactive role in
environmental protection by means of extensive legislative and
policy interventions.
Having served as the first Indian scientist at the Royal Botanic
Gardens, Kew, and worked with the Natural History Museum,
London, and several British universities including
the University of Cambridge, Professor Kaul established
the National Botanical Research Institute (formerly, the
National Botanic Gardens of India), at Lucknow in 1948. He
directed the Institute until 1965, during which time it remained
one of the world's five best botanical gardens, along with those
at Kew (UK), Bogor (Indonesia), Paris (France) and New York
(USA). From 1953 until 1965, Kaul surveyed botanically the
whole of India, from the Karakoram mountains in the north
to Kanyakumari at the southern tip of the country, and from
the North East Frontier Agency in the east to the Rann of
Kutch in the west. In the same period, he contributed to the
development of the botanical gardens at Peradeniya (Sri
Lanka), Singapore, Bogor (Indonesia), Bangkok (Thailand),
Hong Kong, Tokyo (Japan), and Manila (Philippines). He
represented India at the International Botanical Congresses at
Paris (1954), Montreal (1959), and Edinburgh (1964). In 1968, he
was elected as the President of the Palaeobotanical Society,
India. In 1975, he was appointed the first Vice Chancellor of
the Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and
Technology, Kanpur, India.
 Kaul's 1929 work on the medicinal plant Artemisia brevifolia in Kashmir caused yields
of Santonin, an anthelminthic derived from the plant, to increase six times. This made
the production of Santonin economically viable in India.
In 1947, Kaul discovered fresh water aquifers in the princely state of Jodhpur in the Thar
Desert, India, mainly by studying the spatial patterns of vegetation and depths of wells
in the region. He used a small aircraft owned by Maharaja Umaid Singh to conduct aerial
surveys for this purpose. He then prepared a Desert Reclamation Scheme to solve the
enigma of Jodhpur's water shortage. In 1949-50, he also organized the Underground
Water Board for Rajasthan at Jaipur.
In 1969, Kaul, a native of Kashmir, was appointed Director for Gardens, Parks and
Floriculture in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. He worked for several years on
the conservation and management of floral biodiversity and the rejuvenation of
the Mogul-era gardens in the state,
Kaul was responsible for the reclamation of several thousand acres of alkaline land in the
Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. His work has been named The Banthra Formula after
Banthra, the place where it was initiated in 1953. The project
involved organic amendments and biological interventions such as the cultivation
of alkali-tolerant herbaceous, shrub and tree species. Its decentralized, community-based
development approach benefited subsistence and small-scale commercial farmers
through the intensification and diversification of biomass production for food, fuel,
fodder, fertilizers, medicines, timber, animal husbandry, aquaculture, soil amelioration,
and bioaesthetics.
 SEEMA BHATNAGAR
Seema Bhatnagar is an Indian scientist, working in the field of anticancer drug discovery. She primarily works
on synthetic chemistry approaches for targeted delivery of anticancer drugs in breast cancer .
Seema Bhatnagar completed her B.Sc. in Chemistry, Biology and Zoology (1992), followed by M.Sc. in
Organic Chemistry (1994) from Isabella Thoburn College, Lucknow.

She did her Ph.D. in Chemistry (1999) from Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut and thesis executed
under the doctoral advisor of Amiya Prasad Bhaduri[1] at Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow.
Bhatnagar has been associated with research and development in the field of drug discovery and worked with
various government and non-government organizations before her current assignment with Amity Institute of
Biotechnology, Amity University, Noida as Assistant Director. She had joined Amity University as a lecturer
around the time of its inception in 2005. Prior to that she had worked Project Associate in Department of Cell
Biology, National Institute of Immunology, India. (07/01 to 04/04) and Project Associate in Department of
Immunopharmacology at National Institute of Immunology, India. (05/00 to 05/01).Seema Bhatnagar started her
career as Senior Research Fellow (Extended) in Medicinal Chemistry Division, associated with "Lactam Acetals
in Organic Synthesis" under the supervision of Nitya Anand. Project fully sponsored by Council of Scientific
and Industrial Research being executed at New Drug Discovery Research (NDDR), Ranbaxy Laboratories.
(6/99-12/99)
 Bhatnagar is currently working as Assistant Director at Amity Institute of
Biotechnology[5] with Amity University, Noida. Bhatnagar has been associated
with the University since its inception.

Professional Training's & Fellowship/Awards EditSmall Molecule Drug Discovery

organized by Welcome Trust at the Welcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge
UK.1st-6th June 2014

Fellowships/Awards

Awarded Senior Research Fellowship (Extended) by the Council of Scientific and

Industrial Research, New Delhi. (06/99-12/99)Nominated member of the Jury
Panel (level 1) for the ‘DuPont India Challenge-2002 Science Paper Contest
‘(07/02)
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