Did an Indian miss this year's Nobel?

This is not from the foreign press but it is likely to be featured there over the next few days. The original PTI report has been featured in almost all the national newspapers and websites.

This year's Nobel prize for Chemistry went to 3 scientists who demonstrated the role of ubiquitin "inside" the cells.

12 years ago Krishnamoorthy Kannan, a protein chemist, had authored on ubiquitin's function outside the cells and how it could be used as a probe to seek out stem cells and separate them outside the body. His work did not get a lot of recognition and he could not continue the research due to a lack of funding.

The article says that Kannan may have missed sharing the Nobel due to this governmental oversight.