Grant & Awards

• Next-generation Academic Researcher Grant

Research Grant (Principal Investigator) (2024-2025) 

Agency - Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea

• Outstanding Scientist (Regional University program) Grant 

Research Grant (Principal Investigator) (2021-2027)

Agency - National Research Foundation (NRF), Korea (Development of mobile base substitutors in plants)

• Program for New Plant Breeding Techniques Grant 

Research Grant (Co-Principal Investigator) (2020-2022)

Agency - Rural Development Administration (RDA), Korea (Development of gene-specific mutators)

• Best Poster Award 

15th International Association for Plant Biotechnology Congress at Daejeon, Korea (Aug 2023)

• Travel Grant to attend Gordon Research Conference (GRC) Metals in Biology, USA (January 22-27, 2017)

Agency - Proteo-Science Center, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan

• Post-doctoral Fellowship 

Agency - National University Corporation, Ehime University, Japan (April-2014 to March-2017)

• First Prize for Best Presentation on climate change (group activity- team leader) at Youth Seminar

Agency - The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences (UGAS), Ehime University at Ozu, Ehime, Japan (Sept 2011)

• Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship 

Agency - Government of Japan (2010 to 2014) for Ph.D. degree course

• ARS-NET (Agriculture Research Service- National Eligibility Test) as Lecturer- Agricultural Biotechnology (2009) recognized by UGC, CSIR, India

Agency - Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board, The Government of India

• DBT (Department of Biotechnology, Government of India) Fellowship 

For pursuing Masters (2006-2008) at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India

• University Gold Medal In Agricultural Chemistry & Soil Science 

Undergraduate level at Marathwada Agricultural University, Parbhani, India (2006)

• 35th Rank in All India ICAR-JRF Examination for M.Sc. Agricultural Biotechnology (June 2006)