HONORS

Prizes, Travelships, Scholarships (April'03-March'05)

V.S. Anil was awarded the INSA Young Scientist Medal for the year 2003.

S. Chattarji was awarded a Senior Research Fellowship by the Wellcome Trust during the year 2003.

S. Chattarji received a FRAXA research award from the Fragile X Research Foundation, USA in 2004.
S. Chattarji selected as an associate editor and member of the international editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience.
Y. Krishnan-Ghosh appointed as an Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences in the year 2005.

S. Mayor was elected Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy in the year 2003.

S. Mayor  was awarded a Swarnajayanti Fellowship by the Government of India in the year 2003.

S. Mayor was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for the year 2003.

S. Mayor TWAS Associateship for the period 2004-2007.

S. Mayor was appointed to the Editorial Board of Traffic (Blackwell Publications) in January 2005.

S. Mayor and Aki Kusumi were awarded ICORP grant by the JST for the year 2005-2010 for studying membrane mechanisms.
T.T. Maliekal received financial assistance for a DST research project under SERC FAST Track Scheme for young scientists in 2005.

Q.S. Padiath was awarded the INSA Young Scientist Medal for the year 2003.

M.J. Puranik appointed as a Max Planck-India Fellow in the year 2005.

P. Sharma was awarded the INSA Young Scientist Medal for the year 2005.

O. Siddiqi received the Indian Science Congress, Plaque of Honor in the year 2003.

O. Siddiqi received the B.C. Roy Award for Biomedical Research in the year 2003.

O. Siddiqi was Elected Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences, Washington, USA during the year 2003.

O. Siddiqi received the Firodia Science Award in the year 2004.

O. Siddiqi received Sir Syed Ahmed Khan Lifetime Achievement Award in the year 2004.

O. Siddiqi became a member of the Editorial Board, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA.

O. Siddiqi became a member of the Editorial Board, Philosophical Transcations of the Royal Society of London, UK.

K. Sridevi was awarded the TAA-Zita Lobo memorial award for the best thesis in Biological/Chemical Sciences  from TIFR for the year year 2005.

M. Thattai appointed as an Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences in the year 2005.

M.Thattai appointed as a Max Planck-India Fellow in the year 2005.
J.B. Udgaonkar became a member of the Editorial Board of Protein Engineering, Design and Selection in the year 2003.

H. Usman awarded Ranbaxy Fellowship for 5 years in the year 2004.

Awards

Sriram M Ajay
Awarded IBRO International Travel Fellowship to attend the 4th Federation of European Neurosceinces meeting - FENS Forum 2004, Lisbon, Portugal (July, 2004).

S. Banerjee
Travel Fellowship from the IBRO to attend the 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, California, USA (October, 2004).
B. Basu
CAEN travel fellowship for attending the 6th biennial meeting of Asian-Pacific Society for Neurochemistry, Hong Kong (February, 2004).

S. Chakrabarti
Travel grant to attend the Seventh Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, Germany (April, 2003).

O. Chakrabarti
ICGEB grant to attend the DNA tumour virus meeting, Trieste, Italy (July, 2003).

R. Dixit

Was Selected as Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory fellow member of the Society for Neuroscience. Received a fellowship from the Society for Neuroscience and International Brain Research Organization to attend the Neurobiology of Drosophila course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA (July, 2005).
Awarded travel fellowship  from the Society for Neuroscience to attend   meeting  and complimentary registration to Friday professional development workshop for  either  the 2005 or 2006  annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

Fellowship from the Company of biologist (journal-Development) and  Sarojini Damodaran fellowship from TIFR, Mumbai to make a collaborative visit to the laboratory of Prof. Michael Bate, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK (June – October, 2005).

G. Gupta
Travel fellowship from the Genetics Society of America to attend the 44th
Annual Drosophila Meeting, Washington D.C. USA (April, 2004).
R.  Joshi
IBRO travel grant  and DST International travel grant to attend the Santa Cruz Conference on Developmental Biology,  UC Santa Cruz, California, USA (August, 2004).

R.P.R. Metpally
Travel fellowship from the organisers to attend the European Conference on Computational Biology, Paris, France (September, 2003).

N. Rishikesh
SfN travel award for presenting a poster at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego,  California,  USA (October, 2004).

IBRO course scholarship and travel award for attending the course on Methods in Computational Neuroscience conducted by the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA (August, 2003).

CROSS-DISCIPLINARY fellowship from the Human Frontiers of Science Program(2005).

Sharath, B.S.
Scholarship and travel award from the Society for Neuroscience and International Brain Research Organization to attend the  Neural Systems and Behavior course held at Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, USA (August, 2003).

Travel award from the Society for Neuroscience  to attend the 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, California, USA (October, 2004).