SRM varsity professor bags Wellcome Trust fellowship

Amaravati: Dr Sutharsan Govindarajan, assistant professor in the Department of Biology, SRM University-AP has been granted the Early Career Fellowship by Department of Biotechnology/Wellcome Trust India Alliance. An award of Rs 1.24 crore has been provided to Dr Sutharsan for 60 months for the comprehensive study on "Jumbo phages as ancient models for cell organisation."

DBT/Wellcome Trust award is a prestigious award which is given to faculty members of the premier and highly established institutions such as IISc-Bangalore, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). Though SRM University-AP is a nascent university, Dr Sutharsan Govindarajan's transformative ideas and outstanding publications in the world's most prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Microbiology, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) have brought him the recognition. Prof D Narayana Rao, vice-chancellor, SRM University-AP congratulated Dr Sutharsan in a brief ceremony on Tuesday. Professors of SRMAP, Prof Ranjit Thapa, Dr Vinod Kumar, Dr Mahesh Ravva and others attended the ceremony.