Appa Rao Podile

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Appa Rao Podile
Professor Appa Rao Podile
Born (1960-03-03) 3 March 1960 (age 66)[1]
Borupalem village, Thullur mandal, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, India
Alma materSardar Patel University (PhD)
AwardsMillennium Plaque of Honour (2017)
Indian National Science Academy Fellowship (2001)
Scientific career
FieldsLife Sciences
InstitutionsUniversity of Hyderabad (1989ā€“present)

Appa Rao Podile (born 3 March 1960) is an Indian scientist, educator and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hyderabad.[2] He was awarded the Millennium Plaques of Honour for his achievements in Life Sciences by the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi in 2017.

A police case was filed against him under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act against in the case of suicide of Rohith Vemula.

Education[edit | edit source]

Podile obtained his MSc, and then completed his Ph.D. in 1987 from the Sardar Patel University in Gujarat. He was a postdoctoral fellow (1998) of the Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan and subsequently was a visiting scientist (2000), at the Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica. Podile also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of MĆ¼nster, Germany in 2006.[3][4] In 2015, he became the vice-chancellor of the University of Hyderabad where he served till 2021.[5]

Awards and recognition[edit | edit source]

  • Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi 2017[6]
  • Millennium Plaques of Honour, Indian Science Congress Association, Jan 2017 (presented by Prime Minister of India)[7]
  • President Elect, Association of Microbiologists of India, 2017[8]
  • Elected Fellow, National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 2012[9]
  • Tata Innovation Fellowship, Department of Biotechnology, April 2014[10]
  • Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Jan 2014[11]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ā†‘ "National Academy of Agricultural Sciences".
  2. ā†‘ "P. Appa Rao is new UoH V-C". The Hindu. 22 September 2015. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
  3. ā†‘ "Professor Dr. Appa Rao Podile - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.co.in. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
  4. ā†‘ Moerschbacher, Bruno (26 March 2018). "13th International Conference on Chitin and Chitosan" (PDF). Chitosan. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
  5. ā†‘ "An expert at networking, Appa Rao outsmarted 35 others to become VC | Hyderabad News - Times of India". The Times of India. 21 January 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  6. ā†‘ "Professor Appa Rao Podile gets INSA fellowship". Deccan Chronicle. 27 October 2017. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
  7. ā†‘ "UoH Vice Chancellor Appa Rao Honoured At Science Congress". Sakshipost. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
  8. ā†‘ "OFFICE BEARER | AMI | Association of Microbiologists of India". www.amiindia.info. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
  9. ā†‘ "National Academy of Agricultural Sciences". naasindia.org. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
  10. ā†‘ "Prof Appa Rao new VC of UoH". The Hans India. 22 September 2015. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
  11. ā†‘ "INSA :: Indian Fellows Elected". www.insaindia.res.in. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
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