Trilochan Mohapatra

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Full Name	Trilochan Mohapatra
Occupation	Geneticist
Date Of Birth	Apr 20, 1962(1962-04-20)
Age	62
Birthplace	Cuttack
Country	India
Birth City	Odisha
Horoscope	Aries

Trilochan Mohapatra Biography

Trilochan Mohapatra is one of the most popular and richest Geneticist who was born on April 20, 1962 in Cuttack, Odisha, India.

Trilochan Mohapatra (born 20 April 1962) is an Indian biotechnologist, geneticist, a government secretary of the Department of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE) and the director general of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. Known for his studies in the fields of molecular genetics and genomics, Mohapatra is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the Indian National Science Academy and the Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences in 2003.

Mohapatra received two awards from the Indian National Science Academy in 1994, namely INSA Young Scientist Medal and Professor LSS Kumar Memorial Award. He was selected for the NAAS-Tata Young Scientist Award of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS) in 2001; he also received two other honors from NAAS, the elected fellowship in 2006 and the Recognition Award in

2016. The next year, the Indian Agricultural Research Institute selected him for the B. P. Pal Memorial Award. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2003. The Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding elected him as a fellow in 2004 and he received the elected fellowships of the National Academy of Sciences, India in 2005 and the Indian National Science Academy in 2013. The National Academy of Sciences, India honored him again in 2007 with the NASI-Reliance Platinum Jubilee Award and he received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Indian Genetics Congress of 2015. He is also a recipient of the Bioved Agri- Innovation Award of 2015 and the Om Prakash Bhasin Award and the IMS Diamond Jubilee Memorial Award, both in 2016. The award orations delivered by him include the Prasanna Kumar Dash Memorial Lecture of the Orissa Environmental Society (2013), Dr. Gopal Chandra Patnaik Memorial Lecture of the Bigyan Prachar Samiti (2013), Platinum Jubilee Lecture Award of 101st Indian Science Congress (2014) and the inaugural Prof. S.N. Patnaik Memorial Lecture of Utkal University (2014). Honorary D.Sc degree on 7th convocation ceremony by Mahatma Gandhi Chitrakoot Gramodaya Vishwavidhyala, Chitrakoot Satna.

Trilochan Mohapatra Net Worth

Trilochan Mohapatra is one of the richest Geneticist from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Trilochan Mohapatra 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Trilochan Mohapatra was born on 20 April 1962 at Kharibil village in Cuttack in the Indian state of Odisha. After completing early schooling at Laxmi Narayan High School at Eranch near his home village in 1978, he did his pre- university studies at Ravenshaw College (present day Ravenshaw University) in

1980. Joining Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT), he earned a BSc in agriculture in 1985 as well as an MSc in genetics in 1987 and continued at the institution for his doctoral studies to secure a PhD in 1992. He started his career in 1992 as a senior scientist at the National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology (NRCPB), a centre of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) for advanced research in the fields of molecular biology and biotechnology in crop plants where he worked until 2012, serving as a principal scientist from 2005. In between, he did advanced training in rice genome sequencing at the Arizona Genomics Institute of the University of Arizona during 2003–04. In 2012, he was appointed as the director of Central Rice Research Institute as well as the vice-chancellor of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute. He served as the director of IARI in the year 2015-16 and on 22 February 2016, he was appointed as the secretary of the Department of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE), a department working under the Ministry of Agriculture to act as the government interface for promoting agricultural research and education in India. Simultaneously, He holds the position of the director general of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.

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