he was selected for the Professor Umakant Sinha Memorial Award of the Indian Science Congress Association and two years later, he received the 2003 International Technology Award of the World Technology Network. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2007. The National Academy of Agricultural Sciences honored him again with the NAAS Recognition Award in 2008 and he was chosen for the VASVIK Industrial Research Award in 2011. He received one more award in 2011 in the form of ICAR Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Award and he received the NASI-Reliance Platinum Jubilee Award in 2013. Sharma was elected as a fellow by the National Academy of Sciences, India in 2007, the same year as he received the elected fellowship of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He received the J. C. Bose National Fellowship of the Science and Engineering Research Board in 2013 and the Indian National Science Academy elected him as a fellow the same year. The award orations delivered by him include the 2016 edition of the Prof MGK Menon Lecture of the National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute. Gupta SK, Rai AK, Kanwar SS, Chand D, Singh NK, Sharma TR (2012) The single blast resistance gene Pi54 activates complex defense mechanism in rice. J Exp Bot 63:757-772 Kiran, K., Rawal, H. C., Dubey, H., Jaswal, R., Devanna, B. N........Sharma, T. R (2016) Draft genome of the wheat rust pathogen (Puccinia triticina) unravels genome-wide structural variations during evolution Genome Biol Evol(2016) doi: 10.1093/gbe/evw197. International Rice Genome Sequencing Consortium (Matsumoto..A.K. Tyagi...N. K. Singh,.. T R Sharma et al.)(2005) The map-based sequence of the rice genome. Nature 436: 793-800 Sharma TR, Madhav MS, Singh BK, Shanker P, Jana TK, Dalal V, Pandit A, Singh A, Gaikwad K, Upreti HC, Singh NK (2005) High-resolution mapping, cloning and molecular characterization of the Pi-k(h) gene of rice, which confers resistance to Magnaporthe grisea. Mol Genet Genomics 274: 569–578. See also Genetic marker Gene mapping Notes References Further reading External links N-BIOS Prize recipients Indian scientific authors Living people 1965 births 20th-century Indian botanists Scientists from Himachal Pradesh Fellows of The National Academy of Sciences, India Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy Fellows of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences Indian patent holders University of Alberta alumni People from Hamirpur district, Himachal Pradesh 21st-century Indian inventors