Awards and Recognition

2025:

• Best Oral Presentation Award for Nipun Jain and Sachin Latiyan and Best Poster Presentation Award for Vaishnavi Menon at the Annual Student Symposium of the Department of Materials Engineering 

• Best Poster Award at The Future is Here-II conference 2025 for Sachin Latiyan

2024:

• Best Doctoral Thesis Award from the Society for Biomaterials and Artificial Organs (India) for Sushma Indrakumar

• Fulbright Nehru Doctoral Fellowship for Nipun Jain

• DBT Research Associateship for Souvik Debnath

• CSIR Research Associateship for Sriram Bharath

• Best poster award at the Polymers for Advanced Technology- APA 2024 conference for Saswat Choudhury

• Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Appreciation Award 2023 for Saswat Choudhury

• Best Oral Presentation Award at Bioprinting Ignited X India Conference 2024 for Sriram Bharath

• 3rd place in the Falling Walls Lab Bangalore 2024 event for Saswat Choudhury

• MOBLILEX international mobility scholarship from the University of Lille, France, for Rishabh Soni

• Best oral presentation award for Rishabh Soni at the Annual Student Symposium of the Department of Materials Engineering 

• Best Poster Presentation Award for Sriram Bharath at the Advances in 3D Cell Culture Conference

2023:

• Best Master's Thesis Award from the Society for Biomaterials and Artificial Organs (India) for Arkodip Mandal

• Prime Minister's Research Fellowship for Nipun Jain

• ICMR Nurturing Clinical Scientist Fellowship for Nikita Pahurkar

• Fulbright Nehru Doctoral Fellowship for Joel Joseph

• First prize in the 3-minute video contest of Mechanical Sciences Division, IISc, and Agastya science communication fellowship for  Saswat Choudhury 

• Travel Award to attend the MPS World Summit (Microphysiological Systems) for Sriram Bharath

• DBT Research Associateship for Indumathi Sathisaran

• First prize in the Ideathon competition for Nipun Jain at the Annual Symposium of the Centre for BioSystems Science and Engineering 

• Best oral presentation award for Sriram Bharath at the Annual Student Symposium of the Department of Materials Engineering 

2022:

• ACS Best Oral Presentation prize at the BIORemedi 2022 conference for Akshat Joshi

• Second Place Award of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) Bioceramics Division YouTube contest for Saswat Choudhury

• SERB National Postdoctoral Fellowship for Sudipto Datta

• Best Poster Award at the 25th Bangalore Tech Summit for Sushma Indrakumar

• ICMR Nurturing Clinical Scientist Fellowship for Akhilesh Agrawal

• Gold Medal for best performance in the graduating class in IISc for Vibhanshu Golia

• Micrograph Contest Awards for Parul Yadav, Anindo Roy, and Sushma Kumari at the Annual Student Symposium of the Department of Materials Engineering 

• ICMR Research Associate Fellowship for Suhela Tyeb

• ICMR Research Associate Fellowship for Ajit Kumar

• Best Poster Presentation prize at the Advances in 3D Culture workshop for Parul Yadav

• Best Oral Presentation prize at the NANOicon 2022 conference for Sushma Indrakumar

• Young Scientist Award from Fibroheal Woundcare for Sushma Indrakumar

2021:

• Tata Trusts Ph.D. Fellowship for Yusuf Waidi

• Team of Saswat Choudhury and Rishabh Soni selected as the Runner Up in Tata Steel MaterialNext 2.0

• Team of Pritiranjan Mondal, Sushma Kumari, Rahul Shah, and Padmavathy Nagarajan selected as a finalist (top five) in Tata Steel MaterialNext 2.0  

• Poster Prize at the BIOCOM 2021 conference for Saurabh Gupta

• IoE Postdoctoral Fellowship for Akshat Joshi

2020:

• Prime Minister's Research Fellowship for Sriram Bharath

• Prime Minister's Fellowship for Doctoral Research for Sushma Indrakumar

• Best Oral Presentation Award in the Indo-UK Virtual Conference on Current Innovations and the Future of Therapeutic Developments 2020 for Aditi Jain

• C.V. Raman Postdoctoral Fellowship for Rajesh Kotcherlakota

• Aditi Jain selected to attend the 70th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting 2020 in Lindau, Germany

• SERB National Postdoctoral Fellowship for Sushma Kumari

• Best Oral Presentation Awards for Padmavathy Nagarajan (Research Scholar category) and Manisha Behara (UG category), and Micrograph Contest Award (Optical category) for Aditi Jain at the Annual Student Symposium of the Department of Materials Engineering 

• SERB National Postdoctoral Fellowship for Santanu Ghosh

2019:

• Prime Minister's Research Fellowship for Saswat Choudhury

• Travel Grant awarded to Aditi Jain by the Disease Models & Mechanisms journal and The Company of Biologists

• DST International Travel Award for Aditi Jain

• DST International Travel Award for Srijan Acharya

• Prof. K.P. Abraham Medal for the best Ph.D. thesis in the Department of Materials Engineering for Sumit Bahl

• James Clerk Maxwell Writers Prize 2018 (Runner-up) for Sumit Bahl

• Best Poster Presentation Award for Manisha Behara at the Annual Student Symposium of the Department of Materials Engineering 

• UGC Kothari Fellowship for Dhaval Kedaria

2018:

• DST TARE Fellowship for J Venkatesan 

• UGC Kothari Fellowship for GH Darshan

• Best Poster Presentation Award for Lopamudra Ghosh and micrograph contest award for Aditi Jain at the Annual Student Symposium of the Department of Materials Engineering 

• DBT International Travel Award for Aditi Jain

• Travel Awards to the Till & McCulloch Stem Cell Meeting in Canada for Lopamudra Ghosh and Sushma Indrakumar

• ACS Poster Presentation Award at the BioMET 2018 Conference in Vellore for Lopamudra Ghosh

• Rudolf Cimdins Scholarship from the European Society for Biomaterials for Aditi Jain

• Prof. K.P. Abraham Medal for the best Ph.D. thesis in the Department of Materials Engineering for Sachin Kumar

• Best  Poster Award at the ISHR Annual Meeting (International Society for Heart Research- Indian section) in Chandigarh for Aditi Jain

2017:

• Outstanding Reviewer Award by IOP journals Biomedical Materials and Nanotechnology for Vipul Agarwal

• Sun Pharma Science Scholar Award for Young Scientists awarded to Aditi Jain

• Bajpai-Saha Award (second prize) for the best student paper at the Sixth Asian Biomaterials Congress in Thiruvananthapuram for Aditi Jain

• Travel Awards to the Till & McCulloch Stem Cell Meeting in Canada for Sai Meka, Vipul Agarwal, and Sushma Indrakumar

• DST National Postdoctoral Fellowship for Prasoon Kumar

• Materials Technology Best Paper Prize for Shammy Raj and Sachin Kumar

• CSIR Research Associateship for Jaidev Chakka

• Best Poster Award (Prof. N.S. Dhalla award) and Travel Award (Prof. C.C. Kartha Travel Grant award) at the International Conference on Recent Advances in Cardiovascular Research Meeting, Delhi for Aditi Jain

• Best Poster Presentation Award at the National Symposium on Innovative and Emerging Biochemical and Biotechnological Tools to Augment Animal Health and Production in Bangalore for Aditi Jain

• DST National Postdoctoral Fellowship for Vipul Agarwal

• DST Nanomission Postdoctoral Fellowship for Vipul Agarwal

• Best Poster Presentation Awards for Aditi Jain and Rinsha Padmarajan and Micrograph Contest Award for Lopamudra Ghosh at the Annual Student Symposium of the Department of Materials Engineering

2016:

• Jafar Hasan selected as a Member of the Community Board of Materials Horizons journal of RSC

• Sachin Kumar selected as a Member of the Community Board of Nanoscale Horizons journal of RSC

• DST Young Scientist Fellowship for Lopamudra Ghosh

• DST International Travel Awards for Gowri Balachander, Queeny Dasgupta, and Jaidev Chakka

• Travel Awards to the Till & McCulloch Stem Cell Meeting in Canada for Jaidev Chakka and Sai Meka

2015:

• Best Poster Award at the Alternatives to Animal Testing Conference in Bombay for Gowri Balachander

• Travel Award and Student Exchange Award to the Till & McCulloch Stem Cell Meeting in Canada for Sai Meka

2014:

• Welcome Trust/ DBT India Alliance Early Career Fellowship for Jafar Hasan

• UGC BSR Fellowship for Sumit Bahl

• Second Prize for Best Poster Presentation at the Annual Student Symposium of the Department of Materials Engineering for Sumit Bahl

2013:

• UGC BSR Fellowship for Sachin Kumar

• Second Prize for Best Presentation at the National Conference on Challenges in Biomaterials Research, Vellore for Sachin Kumar

• UGC Kothari Fellowship for Kishor Sarkar

2012:

• DBT Research Associateship for Vaijayanthi Mala

• DBT Research Associateship for Elayaraja Kolanthai