Previous Awardees
| 2007 | Dr. Iddya Karunasagar National Professor of IACR College of Fisheries, KVAFS University Mangalore |  |
| 2008 | Dr. Gowrishankar Director Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics Hyderabad |  |
| 2009 | Dr. G.B. Nair Director Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (ICMR) Kolkata |  |
| 2010 | Dr. C. Durga Rao Professor Microbiology and Cell Biology Indian Institute of Science Bangalore |  |
| 2011 | Dr. V. Nagaraja Professor Microbiology and Cell Biology Indian Institute of Science Bangalore |  |
| 2012 | Dr. Seyed E. Hasnain Kusuma School of Biotechnology Indian Institute of Technology New Delhi |  |
| 2013 | Dr. Indrani Karunasagar Director UNESCO MIRCEN for Marine Biotechnology |  |
| 2014 | Dr. S.P. Thyagarajan Former Vice Chancellor, University of Madras and Dean (Research) Sri Ramachandra University Chennai |  |
| 2015 | Dr. Harsh Vardhan Batra Director Defence Food Research Laboratory Mysuru |  |
| 2016 | Dr. Umesh Varshney Professor and Chairman Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |  |
| 2017 | Dr. K. Dharmalingam Professor and Director Research Aravind Eye Care System Madurai |  |
| 2018 | Dr. M. K. Lalitha Advisor Lab Services at Malabar Institute of Medical Sciences Former HOD of Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore |  |
| 2019 | Dr. D Narasimha Rao Professor Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore |  |
| 2020 | Dr. Alok Bhattacharya Professor and Head Department of Biology, Ashoka University, Haryana |  |
| 2021 | Dr. Kishore M Paknikar Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, Maharashtra |  |
| 2022 | Dr. Manjula Reddy Chief Scientist CSIR-Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad |  |
| 2023 | Dr. T. Ramamurthy INSA-Sr. Scientist ICMR-NICED, Kolkata |  |