News
20 October 2010
Satyajit MAYOR, faculty at National Centre for Biological Sciences - TIFR and joint faculty at International Centre for Theoretical Sciences - TIFR, has been awarded the 2010 prize in Biology by TWAS, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World.
MAYAR shares this prize with CHENG Soo-Chen, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taiwan, China.
MAYOR is honoured for his fundamental contribution towards providing a new framework to understand membrane organization in living cells and identifying new modes of endocytosis in metazoan cells. Cheng is recognized for her contribution to understanding the molecular mechanism of pre-mRNA splicing.