India, Nov. 13 -- Infosys Science Foundation (ISF) has announced Isha Jain, Associate Investigator at the Gladstone Institutes and Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of California, San Francisco, as the recipient of the Infosys Prize 2026 in Life Sciences, recognising her pioneering discoveries in oxygen biology and their potential to open new therapeutic avenues for mitochondrial diseases and inherited metabolic disorders.

Isha Jain's research has challenged conventional understanding of mitochondrial diseases by demonstrating that tissue damage in certain mitochondrial disorders can arise from excess oxygen rather than energy failure. Translating these fundamental biochemical insights into therapeut...