HONORS

U.S. Bhalla
Department of Atomic Energy Science Research Council – Outstanding Research Investigator award (2005).
Board member, International Society for Systems Biology (2006).
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award (2007).

S. Chattarji
Research Award from the Fragile X Research Foundation (FRAXA), USA (2005).
Appointed to the Editorial Board of "Neural Plasticity" (2006).
Elected to the Council of the Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society (MCCS) (2006).
Elected to serve as the Secretary of MCCS-Asia (2006).
Awarded Indo-Swiss Bilateral Research Initiative Fellowship (2006).
Appointed to the Editorial Board of “Journal of Neurophysiology” (2007).
Appointed to serve as Review Editor for “Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience” (2007).
Distinguished Lecturer, Mood & Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, USA (2007).

G. Hasan
Elected Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (2005).
Elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (2006).

Y. Krishnan
Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences (2005).
Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India (2007).
Award from the British Council, India: Building futures between UK and India in Nanotechnology (2007).

S. Mayor
S. Mayor and Aki Kusumi were awarded ICORP grant by the JST for the year 2005-2010 for studying membrane mechanisms.

Appointed to the Editorial Board of “Traffic”(2005).
Appointed to the Reviewing Board of “Molecular Biology of the Cell” (2005).
J.C. Bose Fellowship (2007).

M.J. Puranik
Max Planck-India Fellow (2004-2008).
Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India (2007).

S. Quader
Editor, Forktail, The Journal of Asian Ornithology.
Member of the Red List Index working group under the Biodiversity Assessments sub-committee of the Species Survival Commission Steering Committee of the IUCN.
Appointed to the Editorial Board of “Current Conservation”

U.  Ramakrishnan
Research Fellow, Wildlife Conservation Society, India (2005).
Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow, National Academy of Sciences (2006)

K. R. Rau
Fogarty International Research Collaboration Award from NIH, USA (2005-2008)

V. Rodrigues
J.C. Bose Fellowship (2007)

A. Sarin
National Bioscience award for Career Development, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India (2005-2006).

V. Sriram
Appointed Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences (2006)
Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India (2007).
Young Scientist Award, Indian National Science Academy (2007).

P. Sharma
Awarded the INSA Young Scientist Medal (2005).

O. Siddiqi
Padma Vibhushan (2006)
Honorary Degree D.Sc. (honoris causa) from Jamia Millia Islamia (2006).
Honorary Degree D.Sc (honoris causa) from Indian Institute of Technology,
Mumbai (2006).

R. Sowdhamini
National Woman Bioscientist award under the Young Category (2006).
DBT National Bioscience Career Development Award (2007).
Appointed to the Editorial Board of “Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics”.
Appointed Associate Editor in “Bioinformation Journal”.
Visiting Professorship offered to work in Laboratorie Biologie Genetique Moleculaire (2007).
Visiting Professorship in Bharathidasan University (2007).

G.V. Shivashankar
BM Birla Science Prize (2006).

M. Thattai
Associate, Indian Academy of Sciences (2005-2009).
Max Planck-India Fellow (2004-2008).

J.B. Udgaonkar
J.C. Bose Fellowship (2007).

K. VijayRaghavan
J.C. Bose Fellowship (2006).

AWARDS

N. Agrawal
Howard A. Schneiderman Endowed Scholarship, Surdna Foundation and
International Brain Research Organization Scholarship to attend the Neural
Systems and Behavior course at Marine Biological Laboratory, USA (2006).

A. Bhattacharya

IBRO/ISN Travel grant to attend the Neurochemistry School at the National University of Singapore, Singapore (2006).

The Tokuji Ikenaka prizes for the best poster presentation at the 7th Biennial meet of the Asia-Pacific Society for Neurochemistry, Singapore (2006).

T.S. Chakraborty
Journal of Experimental Biology, Company of Biologist Travel Award to work in  Chun-Fang Wu's laboratory in University of Iowa, USA (2006).

IBRO-FAONS Travel Award to present poster at 4th FAONS Congress, Hong Kong (2006).

CCSTDS Travel Award to present poster at the Annual Meeting of Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, USA (2007).

A. Chiang
IBRO and DBT travel awards for an oral presentation in the “Synapses: From
molecules to circuits and behavior” meeting at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA (2007).

R. Dixit
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 (2005).

Awarded travel fellowship from the Society for Neuroscience to attend the Annual meeting of the Society (2006).

Fellowship from the Company of Biologist and Sarojini Damodaran Fellowship to visit Michael Bate’s laboratory at University of Cambridge, UK (2005).

D. Dutta
NCBS-DBS Best Publication Award (2005).

Gayathri, V., N. Jayanth, A. Suvrathan, N. Vyas and M.Sc. wild life students
Best poster awards in the NCBS Annual Review talks (February, 2007).

S.K. Jha
1st prize for poster presentation in biological sciences at "10th ISMAS Triennial International Symposium on Mass Spectrometry", India (2006).

A. G. Khan
IBRO Travel Fellowship to attend FENS Forum in Vienna, Austria (July, 2006).
IBRO studentship to work in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA (2007).

S. Kavitha
IBRO Fellowship to attend the 9th IBRO School at Hong Kong (2006).

T.T. Maliekal
Award from Department of Science & Technology, SERC Fast Track Scheme for young scientists (2005).

M.N. Modi
Best 1st year Integrated PhD student award (2006).

S. Maharana
Best 1st year PhD student award (2006).

R. Rajan
Fellowship from CNS 2005 and from the Department of Science and Technology, India for attending CNS 2005, USA.
Best poster presentation award at CNS 2005, USA.

S. Ravinder
Best 1st year Integrated PhD student award (2005).

B. Roy
Sarojini Damodaran Fellowship to visit Erich Buchner’s laboratory, University of Wuerzburg, Germany (2005).

K. Sridevi
TAA-Zita Lobo memorial award for the best thesis in Biological/Chemical Sciences, TIFR (2005).

M.G. Swetha
Best 1st year PhD student award (2005).

A.H. Wani
2nd prize for poster presentation in biological sciences at "10th ISMAS Triennial International Symposium on Mass Spectrometry", India (2006).

S. Ziegenhorn
National Science Foundation International Research Fellowship, USA (2007-2009).