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CUMULATIVE INDEX: Vol 84 Editorial/Guest Editorial Pharmacology Research in India during 2012-2017 C Adithan, Y K Gupta and B Dinesh Kumar 1 Conundrum of Research Publication in India Subhash C Lakhotia 317-318 A Strategic Roadmap for Computing for Science and Engineering R K Shyamasundar 333-334 Glimpses of RNA Biology Subhash C Lakhotia 413-414 Research Fund Crunch, Real or Created, is Hitting India’s Academia on the Wrong Side Subhash C Lakhotia 545-547 Dual Nutrition Burden in India: Challenges and Opportunities Prema Ramachandran 803-807 INSA Policy Statement A Policy Statement on “Dissemination and Evaluation of Research Output in India” by the Indian National Science Academy (New Delhi) Praveen Chaddah and Subhash C Lakhotia 319-329 Review Articles A Status Report on Autonomic Nervous System: The Indian Research Scenario During the Last Five Years Ramesh K Goyal and Ajit K Thakur 3-14 Status of Neuropharmacology Research in India Yogendra K Gupta, Jatinder Katyal and Sangeetha Gupta 15-31 Clinical Pharmacology in India – A Systematic Review of Research in the Past 5 Years N Shafiq and S Malhotra 33-47 Cardiovascular Pharmacology for the Past 5 Years in India S K Maulik 49-53 Status of Research in Respiratory Pharmacology in India During the Last Five Years (2012-2017) Kavita Gulati, Nishant Rai and Arunabha Ray 55-72 Endocrine Pharmacology Research in India: Scientific Progress in Last Five Years K Srinivasan and S S Sharma 73-100 Status of Research in the Field of Chemotherapy for Infectious Diseases in the Last 5 Years Nusrat Shafiq, Ashish Kumar Kakkar and Samir Malhotra 101-113 Tropical Diseases Nilima Kshirsagar 115-140 Status of Cancer Research in India Phulen Sarma, Parshant Sharma, Rahul Singh, Abhishek Mishra, Harish Kumar, Anusuya Bhattacharyya, Dibbanti Harikrishnareddy, Ashutosh Singh and Bikash Medhi 141-152 Recent Advancement in Nitric Oxide Research in India Anil N Gaikwad, Sachin Kumar and Madhu Dikshit 153-168 Immunopharmacology Research Including Vaccines in India (2012-2017) Arunabha Ray, Kavita Gulati, Suresh Kumar Thokchom and Nishant Rai 169-183 Research in Ocular Pharmacology: An Indian Perspective in the Last Five Years N Halder and T Velpandian 185-193 Status of Pharmacogenomics Research in India During the Last Five Years Rekha Priyadarshini, Gerard Marshall Raj and Deepak Gopal Shewade 195-223 Pharmacovigilance Research in India: A Five-Year Literature Review Gurumurthy Parthasarathi, Anand Harugeri and Krishna Undela 225-232 Status of Research in Education in Pharmacology: The Indian Scene During the Last Five Years Nirmala N Rege and Raakhi K Tripathi 233-254 Nano-pharmaceuticals in Medicine Yoginder K Gupta and A K Dinda 255-266 Traditional Medicine: A Review of Work in India (2012-2017) Urmila M Thatte and Nithya J Gogtay 267-279 Indian Marine Pharmacology: A Sneak Peek Into the Ecosystem Sripathi Rao Kulkarni and Madhu Dikshit 281-300 Overview of Pharmacological Research Activities in North Eastern States of India in Last 5 Years Suparna Chatterjee and Avijit Hazra 301-308 Computing for Science, Engineering and Society: Challenges, Requirement, and Strategic Roadmap R K Shyamasundar, Prabhat, Vipin Chaudhary, Ashwin Gumaste, Inder Monga, Vishwas Patil and Ankur Narang 335-337 Computer Science: Reflection and Future R K Shyamasundar 339-357 Big-Data Science: Infrastructure Impact Inder Monga and Prabhat 359-370 Networks for Computing Needs Ashwin Gumaste 371-384 Blockchain: The Revolution in Trust Management R K Shyamasundar and Vishwas T Patil 385-407 Future of Computing Science R K Shyamasundar 409-410 Central Dogma, Selfish DNA and Noncoding RNAs: A Historical Perspective Subhash C Lakhotia 415-427 Role of The Two Highly Conserved Features of Initiator tRNAs in Initiation of Protein Synthesis in Eubacteria Riyaz Ahmad Shah, Sunil Shetty and Umesh Varshney 429-438 Regulation of Plant miRNA Biogenesis N Anushree and P V Shivaprasad 439-453 Cutting it Right: Plasticity and Strategy of CRISPR RNA Specific Nucleases Ankita Punetha, K N R Yoganand, Siddharth Nimkar and B Anand 455-477 Stress Granules and P-Bodies: An Insight into mRNA Translational Control and Decay Raju Roy and Purusharth I Rajyaguru 479-491 Role of Long Non-coding RNAs in Sculpting Neurons Mayuresh Anant Sarangdhar, Divya Chaubey and Beena Pillai 493-500 Role of Noncoding RNAs in Chronic Pancreatitis Bishnupriya Chhatriya, Piyali Sarkar and Srikanta Goswami 501-511 Roles of Long non-coding RNAs in Cellular Stress Response Anshika Goenka and Subramaniam Ganesh 513-520 Linc‘ing’ RNA to DNA Repair Bakhya Shree and Vivek Sharma 521-529 Geometry and Topology of the Boolean Model on a Stationary Point Processes : A Brief Survey D Yogeshwaran 549-558 Level Spectroscopy in Quantum Antiferromagnets Using Monte Carlo Simulations Arnab Sen 559-580 Glutathione as a Crucial Modulator of Phytohormone Signalling During Pathogen Defence in Plants Riddhi Datta and Sharmila Chattopadhyay 581-597 Knowing Right From Wrong: Quality Control of Ribosome Biogenesis in Eubacteria Sunil Shetty 599-609 Rear Mirror View of Some Biological Tools and Processes Munishwar Nath Gupta and Ipsita Roy 611-624 Big Data and Climate Smart Agriculture - Status and Implications for Agricultural Research and Innovation in India N H Rao 625-640 Research Papers Pressure-induced Phase Transition and Residual Stress Studies on a Meteorite Fall at Nathdwara, India Usha Chandra, V Srihari, K K Pandey and G Parthasarathy 641-655 Need for Variable Frequency Control in DC-DC Switching Converters – Challenges and Opportunities using Digital Implementation K Hariharan and Santanu Kapat 657-668 Cationic Biocide Anchored Graphene Oxide-Based Membranes for Water Purification Paresh Kumar Samantaray and Suryasarathi Bose 669-679 Population Assessment and Ecological Niche Modelling of Carpinus viminea Wall. ex Lindl. - A Multipurpose Tree for Conservation in the Indian Himalayan Region Shiv Paul, S S Samant, Manohar Lal and Jeet Ram 681-694 Evolution of Reproductive Dominance in Animal Societies – Lessons From a Social Wasp Saikat Chakraborty, Anindita Bhadra, Anjan K Nandi, Sumana Annagiri, Sujata Deshpande, Shakti Lamba, Alok Bang and Raghavendra Gadagkar 695-705 In vitro Effects of Lipopolysaccharide and Stress Hormones on Phagocytosis and Nitric Oxide Production by Enriched Head Kidney Macrophage Cultures in the Catfish Heteropneustes fossilis R Kumar and K P Joy 707-721 Toxicity Analysis and cry Gene Profiling of Bacillus thuringiensis Isolated from Western Ghats of Tamil Nadu State, India A Ramalakshmi, P Annakodi, V Udayasurian and V Balasubramani 723-729 Perspectives of the Artemisia annua Dry Leaf Therapy (ALT) for Malaria and of its Re-Purposement as An Affordable Cure for Artemisinin-Treatable Illnesses Richa Goel, Raj Kumari, Vijender Singh, Richa Pandey, Renu Kumari, Suchi Srivastava and Sushil Kumar 731-780 Assessing the Suitability of Sewage-Sludge Produced in Kolkata, India for Their Agricultural Use S Saha, B N Saha, G C Hazra, S Pati, B Pal, D Kundu, A Ghosh Bag, N Chatterjee and K Batabyal 781-792 Articles Are We Eating Too Much? A Critical Reappraisal of The Energy Requirement in Indians Sumathi Swaminathan, Srishti Sinha, Sumedha Minocha, Sanchit Makkar and Anura V Kurpad 809-819 Nutrition Transition in India: Challenges in Achieving Global Targets Prema Ramachandran and K Kalaivani 821-833 POSHAN Abhiyaan: Making Nutrition a Jan Andolan Vinod K Paul, Anamika Singh and Sneha Palit 835-841 Low Birth Weight – Causes, Consequences and Interventions to Achieve Reduction Sarala Gopalan 843-851 Infant and Young Feeding Practices in India: Current Status and Progress Towards SDG Targets Arun Gupta and Neelima Thakur 853-865 Undersized Indian Children: Nutrients-starved or Hungry for Development? H P S Sachdev 867-875 Size at Birth: Effect on Nutrition and Adult Onset Disease Siddarth Ramji 877-880 Nutrition in Fetal Life and Childhood and Its Linkage with Adult Non- Communicable Disease: Lessons from Birth Cohort Studies in India C H D Fall 881-889 Food Fortification and Dietary Diversification as Effective Interventions to Improve Iron Status of Indian Population K Madhavan Nair and Little Flower Augustine 891-897 Prevalence of Anaemia in India and Strategies for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Target Prema Ramachandran and K Kalaivani 899-912 Food Fortification: A Public Health Approach to Bridge the Gap Between Requirement and Intake of Micro-nutrients Prema Ramachandran 913-922 Vitamin D Deficiency in Sun Drenched India – Can D-lightful Sunlight Be a Respite? – Sunlight D lemma C V Harinarayan 923-935 Management of Food Safety Risks in India Siruguri Vasanthi and Ramesh V Bhat 937-943 Diet, Nutrition and Cardiovascular Disease: The Role of Social Determinants Arun Pulikkottil Jose, Krithiga Shridhar and Dorairaj Prabhakaran 945-953 Nutrition and Its Link with Diabetes in Asian Indians: Challenges and Solutions S Shobana, M Ramya Bai, V Sudha, R Unnikrishnan, R Pradeepa, R M Anjana and V Mohan 955-963 Book Reviews Myth of C V Raman’s Instruments Biman B Nath 793-794 History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization T V Ramakrishnan 965-966 News Academy News 309-315 Academy News 531-543 Academy News 795-801 .
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    AWARDEES OF NATIONAL BIOSCIENCE AWARDS FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT Awardees for the year 2012 1. Dr. Kaustuv Sanyal, Associate Professor, Molecular Mycology Laboratory, Molecular Biology & Genetics Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advance Scientific Research, Jakkur P.O. Bangalore 560064 2. Dr Naval Kishore Vikram, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Ansari Nagar, New Delhi- 110029 3. Dr. Aditya Bhushan Pant, Senior Scientist & In-charge, In Vitro Toxicology Laboratory, Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, PO Box: 80, MG Marg, Lucknow 226001 (UP) India 4. Dr. Subrata Adak, Senior Scientist, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology; 4, Raja S.C. Mullick Road, Kolkata-700032 5. Dr. Durai Sundar, Assistant Professor, Dept of Biochemical Engineering & Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi – 110016 6. Dr S Venkata Mohan, Senior Scientist, Bioengineering and Environmental Centre (BEEC) CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad-500 607 7. Dr. Munia Ganguli, Scientist E-I, CSIR-Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology, Mall Road,New Delhi 110 007 8. Dr. Asad U Khan, Associate Professor & Coordinator/Head of Biotechnology Department, A.M.U, Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, A.M.U., Aligarh 202002 9. Dr. Sathees C. Raghavan, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012 10. Dr. Vidita A. Vaidya, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 1, Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba, Mumbai - 400005 Awardees for the year 2011 1. Dr. M. M. Parida, Scientist-F, Joint Director, Division of Virology Defence R & D Establishment, DRDE, DRDO, Ministry of Defence, Jhansi Road, Gwalior- 474002 2.