Old notices
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Mamannamana Vijayan (1941–2022)
![[M. Vijayan]](https://www.iucr.org/__data/assets/image/0005/154607/mv.jpg)
Professor Vijayan at the AsCA meeting in Taipei, Taiwan, in 2007. Photo contributed to the IUCr gallery by Shih-Lin Chang.
We are sad to report that the eminent structural biologist Mamannamana Vijayan, NASI Senior Scientist Platinum Jubilee Fellow, Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, died on 24 April 2022 at the age of 80. Professor Vijayan was closely connected with the IUCr having served on the IUCr Commissions of Small Molecules (1984–1990) and Biological Macromolecules (1987–1993, Chair 1993–1996) and as a Co-editor of Acta Cryst. B, C and D from 1992 to 2005. He was also a member of the IUCr Subcommittee on the Union Calendar from 1996 to 2005, and President of the Asian Crystallographic Association (AsCA) from 2004 to 2007.
Professor Vijayan's research interests included the structure and carbohydrate-binding properties of lectins; the role of hydration in the mobility and action of proteins; the structural biology of mycobacterial, particularly TB, proteins, which opened up avenues for structure-based inhibitor design and drug development; and the molecular recognition and aggregation of amino acids and peptides, and their probable evolutionary implications.
In addition to his significant scientific achievements, Professor Vijayan will be remembered for playing a leading role in the development of structural biology in India, and as a kind and supportive mentor and teacher. A full obituary will be published in due course.
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