15 Facts About Vishweshwaraiah Prakash

Vishweshwaraiah Prakash is an Indian structural biologist, food technologist and a former director-general designate of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.

Vishweshwaraiah Prakash received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, the highest Indian award in the science and technology category in 1996.

Vishweshwaraiah Prakash returned to India in 1981 and joined Council of Scientific and Industrial Research as a Pool Officer at their Mysore research unit, Central Food Technological Research Institute.

Vishweshwaraiah Prakash served the organization for several years and became its director in 1994.

Vishweshwaraiah Prakash headed the centre for 13 years till his appointment as the director-general of CSIR in December 2006 and was supposed to take charge in January 2007, but did not assume office.

Vishweshwaraiah Prakash is known to have done extensive research in structural homology of seed proteins and the association-dissociation and denaturation profiles of these proteins.

Vishweshwaraiah Prakash's work is reported to have assisted in the understanding of the behaviour of several seed proteins from a stability perspective and revealed more about their structural biology.

Vishweshwaraiah Prakash's researches are known to have wide-ranging applications in commercial food industry and he holds 50 patents, some of them on preserved sugar cane juice, coconut sap and baked snacks.

Vishweshwaraiah Prakash's contributions are reported behind the CFTRI initiative to supply 200,000 food packages to the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami that hit the Indian coasts, along with other areas.

Vishweshwaraiah Prakash serves as the president of two major food-related organizations, namely, the International Society of Nutraceuticals And Nutritionals, and Indian Academy of Nutraceuticals and Nutritionals, and is a former president of the Nutrition Society of India.

Vishweshwaraiah Prakash is an IUoFST visiting faculty at Saigon Technology University and an adjunct professor of Nutrition at the Tufts University, Boston.

Vishweshwaraiah Prakash is a member-at-large of the Global Harmonization Initiative, a scientific community facilitating scientific advancement in food technology.

Vishweshwaraiah Prakash is an elected Fellow of the International Union of Food Science and Technology, Indian National Academy of Engineering, Indian Academy of Social Sciences and the Association of Food Scientists and Technologists, India.

Vishweshwaraiah Prakash was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize of the CSIR, the highest Indian science award, in 1996 and the Government of Karnataka awarded him the second highest civilian award of the state, Rajyotsava Prashasthi, the same year.

Vishweshwaraiah Prakash received the Indian Independence Golden Jubilee Award in 1997 and two awards, Prof.