Soumya Swaminathan and Gagandeep Kang: The only 2 Indian women Fellows of London-based Royal Society

PT News New Delhi, May 20

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Globally recognised pediatrician and Indian clinical scientist Soumya Swaminathan was on Tuesday elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), the oldest scientific body in the world in continuous existence. She is only the second Indian woman scientist to win this honour after vaccinologist Gagandeep Kang in 2019 who was the first ever Indian woman scientist to become FRS.