Awards

  • Awarded World Health Organization and Tropical Disease Research, Geneva fellowship to attend the course of Biology of Disease Vectors in Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA. (1992).

  • Awarded outstanding performance by Director, IICT for the project on SAMADHAN KENDRA an Information Technology tool for the rural development in AP. (Sponsored by Ministry of Information Technology, Govt of India, New Delhi).

  • Awarded German Research Foundation Fellowship by University of Heidelberg to deliver a talk on Role of Information Technology for the control of vectors and vector borne diseases in March 2005 at Institute of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

  • Editorial board in Bioinformation Journal, an open access forum on biological data.

  • U.S. Defense award on “Window-on-science support” 2006.

  • Delivered "Golden Jubilee lecture Golden Jubilee celebration of DRDL, Tezpur, Assam September 2008.

  • Delivered "Sri Gopalkishanrao Vepachedu Memorial Lecture" which was conferred by the Andhra Pradesh Akademy of Sciences, February 2008. (http://www.vepachedu.org/TSJ/endowmentlecture.html).

  • Awarded Certificate of Merit by Prof. Samir K Brahmachari, Director General, CSIR, on 31st Jan, 2009 for successfully completing, with merit, all four modules of the CSIR Leadership Development Programme for middle to senior level leader towards leadership role, competences, applications and personnel mastery with formal evaluation at HRDC, Ghaziabad.

  • Delivered "Golden Jubilee lecture" as part of the Golden Jubilee celebration of CSIR-NEIST, Jorhat on October 2010.

  • Awarded ‘GOLD MEDAL’ for best lecture in National Conference on “Emerging Trends in Biopharmaceuticals – Relevance to Environment and Health” organized jointly by Department of Biotechnology Thapar University and Association of Biotechnology and Pharmacy at Thapar University, Patiala, November 2010

  • Visiting Professor, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad since 2011

  • Received "IICT technology award" for societal benefit-2010-11.

  • Received Gold Medal and Citation from Zoological Society of India (ZSI) (established in 1938) for the contributions to the science and society on 28th December 2012.

  • Lifetime Achievement award for the year 2018 by Association of Biotechnology and Pharmacy.

Awards received for North-East Projects

  • Awarded Best Project performance by Government of Mizoram for the project on Integrated Sericulture for Rural Development. (2002).

  • Awarded Best Project performance by Government of Arunanchal Pradesh for the project on Integrated Information Technology Tools for the control of Malaria in Arunanchal Pradesh. (2006)

  • Received the prestigious "eNorth East award-2011 as a special mention in the category of "Health Services Delivery for the commendable work and scaling up in Arunachal Pradesh".