S.K. Verma received Life Time achievement award by GESA, New Delhi, 2024
Rajdeep Chowdhury Visited Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan at Prof. Nisisako Lab under University Immersion Award 2024
Jitendra Panwar Visited Visited the lab of Dr. Jonathan A. G. Cox at School of Life & Health Sciences Aston University, Birmingham 2024
Rita Sharma received ISER (Women Involvement in Science and Engineering Research) Award by Indo-German Science and Technology Centre (established by DST,India, and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany, June 2023
Balakumaran Chandrasekar and Prof. Rajdeep Chowdhury received grant award for Regional Young Investigator Meeting (RYIM) Grant 2023-2024.
Shilpi Garg Received Outstanding Woman Researcher In Molecular Biology" in the 8th Venus International Women Awards – VIWA 2023.
Rita Sharma SERB Science and Technology Award for Research (SERB-STAR) by DST-SERB (2023), Govt. of India-2023
Balakumaran Chandrasekar research profile highlighted by the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)-2023
A. K. Das featured in MERA-India: News & Views 2023
Shibasish Chowdhury, visited Bioinformatics Institute, Agency for Science,Technology and Research, Singapore under University Immersion-2023.
Balakumaran Chandrasekar Wins the outstanding poster award at the Gordon Research Conference (GRS) on Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes (CAZymes) for Glycan Conversions 2019, USA.
Rita Sharma got Genome Engineering/Editing Technology (GETin) Fellowship-2019 through IUSSTF and DBT to work at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley .
Mukul Joshi and Rita Sharma received Ramalingaswami Re-entry fellowship 2019 by the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India
Shilpi Garg received University Immersion Award 2018 (BITS Pilani) for visiting a university abroad (University of Melbourne)-2018
Students Awards
Shreyas M Iyer, got Best Poster Award in International Conference on Sustainable Healthcare from Biological Resources Organised by Dept. Of Biological Sciences, BITS Goa, on 20-22 May 2025
Mamta,Best Rapid Oral and Poster Presentation Award for Parali to Plastic: Acircular approach for cost effective PHA production. International coferance on Innovations in Biotechnology for sustainability (IBS-2024) by Jawahar Lal Neharu University Delhi and Biotech Research Society, India, 25 November 2024
Palak Sangal, received Best Poster Award Molecular Parasitology Meeting, 2024, Marine Biological Laboratory 7 MBL Street Woods Hole, MA 02543 U.S.A. September 2024.
Mehek Garg, selected for the prestigious Khorana Program Award and working Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Indo-US Science and Technology Forum, New Delhi, India, 2024.
Monika Sandhu has been awarded the Prof Suman Kapur Best Thesis Award-2023 for thesis entitled “Molecular and Functional Characterization of Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB) Degrading Bacteria”.
Tripti Joshi received Best Poster Award in Regional Young Investigators' Meeting (RYIM) By IndiaBioscience organized by BITS Pilani (Pilani Campus), IIT Jodhpur, CU Rajasthan, January 2024
Anirudha Kumar Sahu received 3rd Prize in Altair Data Science Contest conducted by Altair during APOGEE 2024 in BITS Pilani organised by Altair India, Delhi, April 2024
Sumit Kumar Mandal received Best Poster, Institutional travel grant, Society of Biological Chemists (SBC) Organized by K K Birla Goa campus, December 2023
Mahima Choudhary received Best Poster Award Regional Young Investigators& Meeting (RYIM) By IndiaBioscience organized by BITS Pilani (Pilani Campus), IIT Jodhpur, CU Rajasthan, January 2024
Ashima Sakhuja received Best Poster Award Regional Young Investigators Meeting (RYIM) By IndiaBioscience, Organized by BITS Pilani (Pilani Campus), IIT Jodhpur, CU Rajasthan, January 2024
Sumit Kumar Mandal, received Best Poster Award 92nd Annual Meeting of the SBCI (The Society of Biological Chemists India). BITS Pilani - Goa Campus along with SBCI (Society Of Biological Chemists (INDIA). December 2023
Mehek Garg, selected for the prestigious Khorana Program and working Brigham and Women Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Indo-US Science and Technology Forum, New Delhi, India, 2024
Chetan V N received Best Sc. Thesis award by Society for Rapeseed-Mustard Research, Bharatpur, Rajasthan, February, 2024
Satyam Srivastava (M.Sc. Student), Awarded, Khorana Scholarship 2023, by Indo-US Science and Technology Forum.
Smita Dey (Ph.D. student received Best Poster Award for the poster titled “Repurposing of FDA Approved Drugs for Treatment of Glioblastoma through Disease Signature Reversal Approacht’ presented in an International Conference on “APOCP 11 Conference on Cancer Prevention in Kolkata” organized by CANCER FOUNDATION OF INDIA on 8-10 December 2022.
Saumya Arora (Ph.D. student) received Third-Best Poster Award for the poster titled “Amelioration of Drought Stress Tolerance by PGPR Enterobacter sp. WRS7 in wheat plant’ presented in an International Virtual Conference on “Recent Trends and Innovations in Microbiology” organized by Department of Microbiology, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India on 15th July 2021
Simran Krishnakant Kushwaha (Ph.D. student) was a runner up for C-CAMP AMR Quest 2021 organized by the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms(C-CAMP) for her proposal entitled CRISPR-based antimicrobial system
Garima Singh (Ph.D. student),Prime Minister Fellowship for Doctoral Research Fellowship by SERB and Kemin Industries South Asia PVT. Ltd.
Simran KrishnakantKushwaha (Ph.D. student) was awarded Newton Bhabha Ph.D. Placement Programme 2020-21 jointly by British council and DBT, India
Vikas Kumar, received EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization) short term fellowship to work in the field of Food Microbiology, (MIVEGEC, IRD, University of Montpellier, 911 avenue Agropolis, 34394 Montpellier, France 2020.
Leena Fageria of our department has won the best story award under DST AWASAR 2019 scheme. Every year DST conducts a story writing competition for PhDs and PDFs, where one research work has to be written in a story format so that non-scientific community can easily understand the work.
Rushikesh Zhawar (2017B1A70977), M.Sc. Biological science student has been awarded prestigious Khorana Fellowship jointly organized by Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India, Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) and WINStep.
Akshina Jindal (M.Sc. Student) received Khorana Fellowship-2019 Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India, Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) and WINStep.
Vikas Kumar (Ph.D. student) Awarded, Awarded ICMR-SRF by ICMR India in 2019.
Vikram Pareek, received EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization) short term fellowship to work in the field of Food Microbiology at University College Dublin, Ireland in 2019.
Student Travel Grants
Shreya Bhatnagar, received ICMT Travel grant for poster presentation in International Society of Extracellular Vesicle ISEV 2025 Annual Meet, Vienna, Austria 24th -27th April 2025
Shreya Bhatnagar, recived travel grant from Indian Society of Extracellular Vesicles for Oral presentation at AIIMS New Delhi during Conference -EVOLVE, , organized by InSEV, Indian Society of Extracellular Vesicles 24-26 March 2025
Priyanka Roy, received ICGEB fellowship to attend Iv Molecular Biosystems Conference Eukaryotic Gene Regulation and Functional Genomics to be held Puerto Varas, Chile on September 29 - October 3, 2025
Priyanka Roy, received MPS travel award to attend 2025 to attend MPM XXXVI, conference Woodshole USA.
Priyanka Roy, received fellowship to attend Wellcome Connecting Science’s courses on Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Bioinformatics-Asia, providing hands-on training for analyzing NGS data and developing bioinformatics skills, held at Monash University, Malaysia and Genome Institute of Singapore during 3-8 Nov 2024
Shradha Bhatnagar, received ICPvR Travel Support to attend The 9th International Conference on Plasmodium vivax Research in Puducherry, India, Februrary 2025
Sayantani Chatterjee, received, EMBL Travel Grant for EMBO workshop on chromatin biology in cancer 2024 to visit NUS, Singaporeon April 2024. paid to attend the EMBL Conference: BioMalPar XXI: biology and pathology of the malaria parasite that will take place at EMBL Heidelberg, Germany from 20 - 22 May 2025.
Muthusaravan S, Institutional Travel grant for CARBOXXXVIII International Conference on Recent Advances in GLycoscience and Glycotechnology, ACCTI and Gauhati University, December, 2024.
Shobham, Institutional Travel grant, 4th International Conference on Bioprocess for Sustainable Environment and Energy (ICBSEE- 2024), NIT Rourkela, Odisha,India, December, 2024.
Sukriti Gujarati, received DBT CTEP Travel Grant, Cell Symposia: Multifaceted Mitochondria 2024, Sitges, Spain, October 2024.
Mahima Choudhary, DST International Travel grant for EMBO/FEBS lecture course, EMBO/FEBS-Mitochondria in life, death and disease, Ta La hotel, Landshut, Germany, 20 September 2024
Priyanka Roy, Partial Institutional International Travel grant to attend Non-coding RNA World 2024: Exploring Mechanisms, Designing Medicine MDPI: Academic Open access Publishing since 1996 Basel, Switzerland, 10 September 2024.
Sukriti Gujarati, received BITS International Travel grant for Cell Symposia: Multifaceted Mitochondria 2024, Sitges, Spain, 30 September 2024.
Sukriti Gujarati, received ICMR HRD International Travel support for Cell Symposia: Multifaceted Mitochondria 2024, Sitges, Spain, 30 September 2024.
Palak Sangal: DST SERB Travel award 2024 to attend 21st International Congress for Tropical Medicine & Malaria (ICTMM 2024) held in Kuching, Malaysia. September, 2024
Mahima Choudhary, received DST-SERB International Travel Grant for EACR Congress 2024 organised by European Association for Cancer Research University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK, June 2024
Hansa Sehgal, ANRF - International Travel Support (ITS) Award by Botanik-Tagung 2024, German Society for Plant Sciences, Martin-Luther-University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, September 2024.
Smita Dey, got DST International Travel grant for CRUK Brain Tumour Conference. 2024, Park Plaza Riverbank London, September 2024.
Subhashree Chatterjee, received, DST Travel Grant for EMBO workshop on chromatin biology in cancer 2024 to visit NUS, Singaporeon April 2024.
Palak Sangal: MPM travel award 2024 to attend 35thAnnual Molecular Parasitology Meeting at Woodshole, Massachussets, USA. March 2024.
Subhashree Chatterjee received Institutional Travel grant from Society of Biological Chemists (SBC), Organized by K K Birla Goa campus, December 2023.
Priyanka Roy received Institutional Travel grant for Genomics India Conference (GIC) Organized by Shiv Nadar Institution Of Eminence,Delhi NCR February, 2024.
Mahima Choudhary received Institutional travel grant, Society of Biological Chemists (SBC) Organized by K K Birla Goa campus, December 2023
Mahima Choudhary, received DST-SERB International Travel Grant for EACR Congress 2024 organised by European Association for Cancer Research University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK, June 2024
Chinmay Nayak received DST Travel Grant for KARYASHALA workshop, Organized by Shiv Nadar Institution Of Eminence,Delhi NCR, December 2023
Swarnima Kushwaha received Institutional Travel grant Society of Biological Chemists (SBC), Organized by K K Birla Goa campus, December 2023
Yash Katakia,received CSIR-HRDG International Travel Support to attend the 92nd European Atherosclerosis Society (EAS) Congress 2024 in Lyon, France, organised by European Atherosclerosis Society, Första Långgatan 4A, 413 03, Göteborg, Sweden, May 2024
Yash Katakia, received DST-SERB International Travel Support to attend the 92nd European Atherosclerosis Society (EAS) Congress 2024 in Lyon, France, European Atherosclerosis Society, Första Långgatan 4A, 413 03, Göteborg, Sweden, May 2024
Yash Katakia received EAS Young Investigator Fellowship, European Atherosclerosis Society, organised by Första Långgatan 4A, 413 03, Göteborg, Sweden, May 2024
Ashima Sakhuja received Institutional Travel grant, Society of Biological Chemists (SBC), Organized by K K Birla Goa campus, December 2023
Smita Dey received, Institutional Travel grant, Society of Biological Chemists (SBC), Organized by K K Birla Goa campus, December 2023
Muthusaravan S, received Institutional Travel grant for 12th Asian Community of Glycoscience and Glycobiology, Organised by School of Life Sciences and School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad, 8-11 November, 2023
Farhanur Rahman qualified ASRB-NET-2021, conducted by Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board, India
Sonia Narwal qualified ICMR-SRF -2021, conducted by Indian Council of Medical Research, India
Farhanur Rahman selected for DBT-JRF, Category II, Department of Biotechnology, India
Heena Saini, received DST-SERB travel grants to attend the EMBO Workshop Autophagy: From molecular principles to human diseases 26 – 30 August 2019 at Crieff, Scotland, United Kingdom
Vikas Kumar (Ph.D. student) Awarded, Awarded ICMR-SRF by ICMR India in 2019.
Vikram Pareek, received ICGEB grant and DBT travel grant to attend the conference entitled "6th Central European Symposium on Antimicrobials and Antimicrobial Resistance (CESAR-2018) Gene expression profiling of Escherichia coli K12 to unveil the silver resistance machinery" at Sveti Martin na Muri, Croatia, on 19 September 2018.