Srinivas Kishanrao Saidapur

Srinivas Kishanrao Saidapur (born 17 July 1947) is an Indian reproductive biologist, academic and a former vice chancellor of Karnatak University. He is known for his studies on comparative endocrinology of amphibians and the reproductive biology of the vertebrates and is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy, National Academy of Sciences, India and The World Academy of Sciences. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1991, for his contributions to biological sciences.

Biography Srinivas Saidapur, born on 17 July 1947 in the South Indian state of Karnataka, did all his college education, except the post-doctoral studies, at Karnatak University from where he secured his graduate, master's and doctoral degrees. He also served as a visiting scientist at the National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan and had two short stints in Germany at Ruhr University Bochum in 1995 and University of Würzburg in 2004 as an INSA-DFG Exchange Program fellow of the Indian National Science Academy and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). His studies are reported to have widened the understanding of the reproductive biology of the vertebrates and concentrating his researches on Indian Bullfrog, he proposed gametogenesis methodologies for producing frogs of predetermined sex. He has also published several articles and has mentored 13 scholars in their doctoral researches. and the Indian National Science Academy followed suit, a year later. He received the fellowships of the National Academy of Sciences, India and The World Academy of Sciences in 2009 and 2010 respectively. He has also delivered many award orations which included the 2007 Professor MRN Prasad Memorial Lecture and 2010 Professor Har Swarup Memorial Lecture.

Selected bibliography Madgiri, Pancharatna and Saidapur, Srinivas Kishanrao. (1985). Effects of homoplastic pituitary pars dista1is homogenate (PDH), PMSG, HCG, GH, and estradiol-17B on the ovarian maintenance in the hypophysectomized frog, Rana cyanoph1yctis (Schn.). Zool. Anz., Jena 215:1/2, 109–120.