The UK Royal Society elected 51 eminent scientists as Fellows of the Royal Society on Tuesday, which included India's first woman scientist to become a Royal Fellow Gagandeep Kang, as well as five other Indian scientists.

Gagandeep Kang became India's first female scientist to be elected as Royal Society Fellow

Padma Bhushan awardee Dr Yusuf Hamied was elected as Honorary Fellow. Apart from Hamied and Kang, four other Indian scientists became Royal Fellows.

Professor Venki Ramakrishnan, the president of The Royal Society, said through a media release, “Over the course of The Royal Society’s vast history, it is our Fellowship that has remained a constant thread and the substance from which our purpose has been realised: to use science for the benefit of humanity.”

Dr. Kang is known for her inter-disciplinaryresearchstudying the transmission, development and prevention of enteric infections and their sequelae in children in India. She has built national rotavirus and typhoid surveillance networks and conducted phase 1-3 trials of vaccines, which has supported two WHO pre-qualified vaccines, according to a biography posted on The Royal Society website. She has won many accolades including the Infosys prize.

Gagandeep Kang is the first Indian woman scientist to be elected Royal Society Fellow in 360 years