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Department of Biological Sciences

Biological Sciences

Awards and Recognition

Faculty Awards
  • 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

Awards Received by Students:

  • Garima Singh, received FEMS MICRO Congress Attendance grant to attend FEMS MICRO 2025 Congress & Exhibition to be held from 14th to 17th July 2025 in Milan, Italy for a Flash Talk and poster presentation.
  • 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
  • Shreyas M Iyer, got the best poster award at the "International Conference on Challenges and Advancements in the Treatment of Neurological Disorders (ICCATND '25) March 21-22, 2025" organised by Dept. Of Pharmacy, BITS Pilani, Pilani campus.
  • Sampreeti Tahbildar, received the Best Poster Presentation award in the 9th International Conference on Plasmodium vivax Research held in Puducherry (ICPvR 2025), India, February 2025.
  • Tripti Joshi, received the Best Poster Presentation award (3rd prize) in the Symposium on “Striving towards innovation and entrepreneurship: Identifying the pathways,” organised by the School of Interdisciplinary Research and Entrepreneurship (SIRE) and Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC), BITS Pilani- 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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”.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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 Krishnakant Kushwaha (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
  • Sukriti Gujarati, received the EMBL Corporate Partnership Programme fee waiver for attending the BioMalPar XXI: biology and pathology of the malaria parasite held from 20 -22 May 2025 held at Heidelberg, Germany.
  • Shreya Bhatnagar, received ICMT Travel grant for poster presentation in the International Society of Extracellular Vesicle ISEV 2025 Annual Meet, Vienna, Austria, 24th -27th April 2025
  • Garima Singh, received BITS International Travel grant to attend the Microbiology Society Annual Conference 2025, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 31st March - 3rd April 2025
  • Shreya Bhatnagar, received a travel grant from the Indian Society of Extracellular Vesicles for an Oral presentation at AIIMS New Delhi  during the 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 in Puerto Varas, Chile, on September 29 - October 3, 2025
  • Sampreeti Tahbildar, received ICPvR Travel grant to attend the 9th International Conference on Plasmodium vivax Research held in Puducherry (ICPvR 2025), India, February 2025.
  • Priyanka Roy received the MPM Honorable Mention Award to attend the 2025 MPM XXXVI conference in Woods Hole, USA, 2025.
  • Priyanka Roy,received fellowship from Wellcome Sanger Institute to attend hands-on training on analyzing NGS data and developing bioinformatics skills, held at Monash University, Malaysia, and Genome Institute of Singapore from 3-8 Nov 2024
  • Priyanka Roy, received ICMR HRD International Travel support for Non-coding RNA World 2024: Exploring Mechanisms, Designing Medicine MDPI: Academic Open access Publishing since 1996, Basel, Switzerland, 10 September 2024.
  • Saurabh Singh, received ICPvR Travel Support to attend the 9th International Conference on Plasmodium vivax Research (ICPvR 2025)  in Puducherry, India, February 2025.
  • Kanika Hada, received ICPvR Travel Support to attend the 9th International Conference on Plasmodium vivax Research (ICPvR 2025) in Puducherry, India, February 2025.
  • Sayantani Chatterjee, received ICPvR Travel Support to attend The 9th International Conference on Plasmodium vivax Research (ICPvR 2025) in Puducherry, India, February 2025.
  • Divya Malik,  received ICPvR Travel Support to attend the 9th International Conference on Plasmodium vivax Research (ICPvR 2025) in Puducherry, India, February 2025.
  • 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 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.
  • Chetan V N, 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 ICMR HRD International Travel support for Cell Symposia: Multifaceted Mitochondria 2024, Sitges, Spain, 30 September 2024.
  • Sukriti Gujarati, received BITS International Travel grant 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, Singapore April 2024.
  • Palak Sangal: MPM travel award 2024 to attend 35thAnnual Molecular Parasitology Meeting at Woodshole, Massachussets, USA. March 2024.
  • Subhashree Chatterjee received an Institutional Travel grant from Society of Biological Chemists (SBC), organized by K K Birla Goa campus, December 2023.
  • Priyanka Roy received an Institutional Travel grant for Genomics India Conference (GIC) organized by Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi NCR February, 2024.
  • Sukriti Gujarati received an Institutional Travel grant for Genomics India Conference (GIC) organized by Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi NCR, February 2024.
  • Mahima Choudhary received an 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 an 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 the 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 an 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 an Institutional Travel grant for the 12th Asian Community of Glycoscience and Glycobiology, organised by the School of Life Sciences and the School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad, 8-11 November 2023
  • Farhanur Rahman qualified ASRB-NET-2021, conducted by the Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board, India
  • Sonia Narwal qualified ICMR-SRF -2021, conducted by the 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.