G Sastry's Biography

G Sastry, Scientist and Head, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology

Dr. G. Narahari Sastry obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Osmania University and Ph.D. from University of Hyderabad. After PDF stays in Israel and Switzerland, he started his independent research career in 1997 at Pondicherry University. Dr. Sastry’s research interests are computational chemistry and computer aided drug design. Several of his computational predictions have seen experimental realization. He has organized and participated in many conferences, and delivered about 175 invited/plenary lectures. He has published about 215 papers which received over 3100 citations.
He has been awarded Shanthi Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in chemical sciences (2011), National Bioscience award(DBT)2009, Swarnajayanthi Fellowship 2005 (DST), B.M. Birla Young scientist award for 2001, B.C. Deb memorial award (2008), CRSI Medal 2011, and AvH fellowship. He was a visiting professor at IMS, japan; LMU, Munich, Germany; and Jackson State University, USA. He was elected as a Fellow of National Academy of Sciences (FNASc), Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (FASc), Fellow of Association of Biotechnology and Pharmacy (FABP) and Andhra Pradesh Akademy of scienices (FAPAS).