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Emeritus manager of probe and elder idiosyncratic astatine the LV Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) Shivaji Sisinthy passed distant owed to unwellness earlier this month. He had published implicit 375 probe papers and is celebrated for being the archetypal Indian biologist to person been portion of expeditions to some the Arctic and Antarctic.
Shivaji is simply a MSc (Biology) postgraduate from BITS Pilani successful 1973, obtained PhD from Delhi University successful 1978, did post-doctoral probe astatine IISc, Bengaluru and joined CSIR-CCMB successful 1980 and helped found the Laboratory for the Conservation of Endangered Species (LACONES). He retired from CCMB successful 2012, and joined LVPEI successful 2013, going connected to service arsenic Director of the Prof Brien Holden Eye Research Centre astatine LVPEI from 2016 to 2020.
He was awarded the Antarctic Award for excellence successful Biological Sciences successful 2002, Carl Woese Memorial Award successful 2014 by the Association of Microbiologists, India, and the National Award successful Polar Sciences and Cryosphere by the Government of India successful 2016, said a property release.
