Kathmandu, December 20
Chemist Achyut Adhikari has been awarded with 2019 Atta-ur-Rahman Award by UNESCO. He was honoured for his work using natural products chemistry in Nepal isolating compounds in regional plants that can be put to use in medicine or commercial products.
He was awarded for his achievements in finding how timmur, nepali peeper can be useful in making medicines of diabetes and blood pressure. The research findings revealed that the use of timmur can help in saving kidneys and in treatment of teeth.
The money for the prize is of Rs $5,000.
The award is granted annually by 1985 TWAS Fellow Atta-ur-Rahman, a distinguished Pakistani chemist and a past president of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences. It acknowledges the work of researchers from scientifically lagging countries who have obtained high-impact results in various fields of chemistry.
 

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