Endowment Lectures
M J Thirumalachar & M J Narasimhan Endowment Lectures
To honour the memory of her well-known mycologist husband, MJ Thirumalachar, and their son, M J Narasimhan, M Jeerasannidhi Kasthuri endowed a lecture series in 2007. On 18th June, 2015, the endowment lecture was given by Shankar Balasubramanian – the Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge.
Richard J Roberts
Venkataraman Ramakrishnan
Shankar Balasubramanian
Inder Verma
Dr. Richard Henderson
Prof. Harmit Malik
Prof. B N Gangadhar
Prof. Renu Swarup
Dr. Srinivas M
Good Governance Builds Great Hospitals, Director, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, 2023 C N R Rao Endowment Lectures
Prof. C. N. R. Rao Endowment Lecture was instituted in 2012 (council meeting minures 14/12/2012) from an endowment of Rs.15 lakhs received from Prof. C. N. R. Rao. The lecture is to be delivered by a leading Indian or Foreign scientist in alternate years. It carries a suitable honorarium and travel. The first lecture was delivered by Prof. George Whitesides of Harvard University on “Reinventing chemistry” in 2013. The most recent and the third lecture was given by Prof. K. Vijayaraghavan of NCBS/DBT in 2016.
George M Whitesides
Yoshinori Tokura
Dr. Stuart Parkin
K. Vijay Raghavan
Richard N. Zare
Paul S. Weiss
Sandip Trivedi
Anthony K. Cheetham
Dr. S. Chandrasekhar