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Prakash Nagarkatti

Prakash Nagarkatti is a scientist, an academic, and a university administrator who served as the Vice President for Research at the University of South Carolina (USC) from 2011 to 2021. He serves as Senior Research Advisor to the President at USC and Carolina Distinguished Professor. His expertise is in the fields of immunology and toxicology. His contributions to science have been recognized through numerous awards, including the Vos Lifetime Career Achievement Award (1996) and the Distinguished Toxicology Scholar Award from the Society of Toxicology (SOT) (2022).  Nagarkatti was elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (2018), a Fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences (2017), and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012)

Nagarkatti is actively involved in communicating science to the public through his writings in The Conversation, which has been published by numerous media outlets, including ''Yahoo News, PBS News Hour', and Scientific American','' to name a few. He has also been interviewed at several regional and national radio and TV stations and by several newspapers and online websites. Some examples include The State, KYFF TV, WLTX TV, ABC Columbia, Forbes, Science Daily, PBS News Hour, New Scientist, BBC News, and the like. He also served on the COVID-19 vaccine panel for USA Today. Nagarkatti is a strong proponent of geographic equality in federal research funding and has played a vital role in enhancing NSF EPSCoR and NIH IDeA programs. Through his service on a congressionally mandated advisory group to NSF and as Chair of EPSCoR/IDeA Foundation, he successfully advocated for Congress to reduce geographic diversity in federal research funding. Provided by Wikipedia