Appa Rao Podile is an Indian scientist, educator and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hyderabad.[2] He was awarded the Millennium Plaques of Honour for his achievements in Life Sciences by the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi in 2017.
Appa Rao Podile
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Professor Appa Rao Podile
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| Born | (1960-03-03) 3 March 1960 (age 64)[1] |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Sardar Patel University (PhD) |
| Awards | Millennium Plaque of Honour (2017) Indian National Science Academy Fellowship (2001) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Life Sciences |
| Institutions | University of Hyderabad (1989–present) |
Podile obtained his MSc, and then completed his Ph.D. in 1987 from the Sardar Patel University in Gujarat. He was a postdoctoral fellow (1998) of the Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan and subsequently was a visiting scientist (2000), at the Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica. Podile also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Münster, Germany in 2006.[3][4] In 2015, he became the vice-chancellor of the University of Hyderabad.[5]