She has advocated for the due recognition of the contributions women and immigrants have made to science, a mission that she has said was inspired by her parents. Prior to being launched into prominence during the pandemic, Iwasaki was regarded as being at the vanguard of research into immunology. Why does the Sars-CoV-2 affect different people differently? What happens at a cellular level during an infection? How long will immunity last? The most authoritative of these answers have come from Iwasaki’s lab at Yale’s Howard Hughes Medical Institute, where she leads a team of immuno-biologists that has published over a dozen papers on Covid-19 and the virus that causes it. If Sars-CoV-2, and how it foxes our immune system, is one of the biggest medical mysteries of today, Yale professor Akiko Iwasaki has been one of the most formidable sleuths by uncovering the pathogen’s secrets. And, as party strategist, he is known for straight talk and an eye for detail when it comes to statecraft.Īkiko Iwasaki, Professor of Immunobiology, Yale University

The passage of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill that he piloted in Parliament in 2019, which paved the way for the reading down of Article 370, placed him in the high achievers club.Īs the minister in charge of the country’s internal security, Shah is known for taking tough decisions and pushing for innovation in governance. He helmed party affairs in the run-up to the 2014 general elections and drafted the strategy for the party’s triumphant win in Uttar Pradesh three years later. Having earned the sobriquet of Chanakya for his meticulous election planning, Shah has to his credit the distinction of never having lost an election.

His political acumen was noticed while he managed the Gandhinagar seat for party patriarch LK Advani, which he won with an impressive margin in 2019. The 57-year-old Shah sharpened his political skills at the RSS’s student wing and the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad. The politician from Gujarat, who was at once the party’s chief electoral strategist and the youngest party chief, gets credit for driving the Bharatiya Janata Party’s expansion plan. A tenacious foot soldier of the party, a consummate politician and an adroit administrator, Amit Shah wears many hats.

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