<span style="color: #222222;">In Gujarat, Professor Uttama Lahiri, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar -IITGN has been selected for the TATA Innovation Fellowship for 2020-21. She will receive the award from Union Minister of Science and Technology Dr. Harsh Vardhan in a virtual function tomorrow. The award includes a monthly fellowship amount and a contingency grant for three years, with a possible extension of another two years.</span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;">According to the official press release of IITGN, the Tata Innovation Fellowship is awarded by the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India to the selected five scientists of the country as a recognition and reward to their outstanding work. It is given in the field of biological sciences, biotechnology and commitment to find innovative solutions in health care, agriculture, environment, conservation of natural resources, livestock production manufacturing process.</span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;">AIR Correspondent reports that Professor Uttama has conceptualised a novel wireless wearable ‘SmartWear’ to help the patients of Parkinson's Disease. It is based on one’s walking pattern that will offer Parkinson's Disease patients a technology-assisted mechanism empowered to quantify one’s possibility of Freezing of Gait (FOG) even before it actually happens.</span><br />” &nbsp;