Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awards for 2022 were announced on September 11, honouring 12 young scientists with India's top science prize, after an year's delay. 

N Kalaiselvi, Director-General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), revealed the names of the 12 awardees, all of whom are male scientists.

The list of awardees for SSB awards 2022 includes:

Biology

Ashwani Kumar, CSIR – Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh

M Maddika Subba Reddy, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad

Chemistry

Akkattu Biju, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

Debabrata Maiti, IIT Bombay

Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean, and Planetary Sciences

Vimal Mishra, IIT Gandhinagar

Engineering

Dipti Ranjan Sahoo, IIT Delhi

Rajnish Kumar, IIT Madras

Mathematics

Apoorva Khare, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

Neeraj Kayal, Microsoft Research Lab, India

Medicine

Dipyaman Ganguli, CSIR Indian Institute of Chemical Biology

Physics

Anindya Das, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

Basudeb Dasgupta, TIFR Mumbai

The Bhatnagar Prizes, named after Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar, the first Director-General of CSIR, are awarded annually in seven scientific disciplines: biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, medicine, engineering, and earth, atmosphere, ocean, and planetary sciences. These awards recognise exceptional researchers under the age of 45 and come with a cash prize of Rs. 5 lakh.