CARDIOVASCULAR GENETICS LAB

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS

Awards

Awards & Accolades 
2024 
  • Janani V: Woman Leading IITM (WLI) - from IIT Madras, 2024
  • Amit Kumar: Institute Research Award - 2024 : In recognistion of high quality Ph.D. research work, IIT Madras, 2024


2023 ​
  • Silpa Arkat: Best Paper Award at Heart Failure Conflux - 2023: "Virtual Confluence of Scientists and Clinicians Caring Heart Failure", Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, February 4-5, 2023
​        2022 ​
  • Kajal Rathod: Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF), from the Ministry of Education, Govt. of India, 2022
  • Anupama V: Best Oral Presentation Award at the International Webinar on “Biotechnology - Recent Advances, Challenges & Opportunities” organized by the Department of Biotechnology, University of Kerala, December 14-16, 2022
  • ​Janani V: High-Risk High-Reward (HRHR) Fellowship from IIT Madras to carry out collaborative research at University of California San Diego, USA for 6 months, 2022
  • Sakthi Sree M. Best Oral Presentation Award at Cardiovascular Research Convergence, CSIR-IICB, Kolkata, June 25, 2022
  • Silpa Arkat: Best Poster Presentation Award at Cardiovascular Research Convergence, CSIR-IICB, Kolkata, June 25, 2022​
  • Anupama V: Women Scientists Scheme-A (WOS-A) grant for 3 years from the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, 2022
​         2021 ​
  • Dhanya R: International Immersion Experience (IIE) Award from IIT Madras to carry out research at Cleveland Clinic Foundation, USA for 3 months, 2021
  • Anand Kumar Patel: International Immersion Experience (IIE) Award from IIT Madras to carry out research at Cleveland Clinic Foundation, USA for 3 months, 2021
  • Shivam Singh: Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF), from the Ministry of Education, Govt. of India, 2021
  • Poovitha Sundar: Women Scientists Scheme-A (WOS-A) grant for 3 years from the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, 2021
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       2020 ​
  • Avanish Nihale: 48th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress Prize for the best M.Tech. thesis in the area of Biotechnology presented on IIT Madras 2020 Alumnite​
  • Dhanya R: Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds Grant to participate in the EMBL Course  on "Genome Engineering: CRISPR/Cas from Cells to Mice" during September 28 -October 5, 2020
  • Silpa Arkat: Women Scientist grant for 3 years from the Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India (2020).​
  • Sakthi Sree M.: Prof. CC Kartha Travel Award at the International Conference on Cardiovascular Science- 2020, New Delhi. February 21-23, 2020
  • Silpa Arkat: Prof. CC Kartha Travel Award at the International Conference on Cardiovascular Science- 2020, New Delhi. February 21-23, 2020​
  • Vikas Arige: 2nd prize for Poster Presentation at 20th International Symposium on Chromaffin Cell Biology (ISCCB-20), IIT Madras. January 23-26, 2020.
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       2019
  • Abrar Ali Khan:  N.S. Dhalla Award for oral presentation at the International Society for Heart Research ( ISHR 2019) ( Indian Section) held at Marriott hotel, Jaipur. February 15-17, 2019.
  • Anand Kumar Patel:  2nd Best Poster Award for poster presentation at International Society for Heart Research ( ISHR 2019) ( Indian Section) held at Marriott hotel, Jaipur. February 15-17, 2019.
  • Dhanya R: N.S. Dhalla Poster award at the Annual Conference of International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences ( IACS-2019) (Indian Section) held at NIMHANS, Bangalore. February 15-17, 2019.


       2018
  • Vikas Arige:  Best Oral Presentation Award at the 3rd MMM Genetics Symposium on "Advances in Genetic Diagnosis of Neurological Disorders". This meeting was  jointly organized  by the Centre for Genetic Studies and Research-MMM, Chennai and CSIR-Institute of Genomic & Integrative Biology, New Delhi at Madras Medical Mission, Chennai. September 7-9, 2018
  • Kiranmayi Malapaka: Institute Research Award from the IIT Madras in recognition of the quality and quantity of her Ph.D. research work for the year 2018.
  • Dhanya R: Best Poster Presentation Award at 15th Annual Conference of the International Society for Heart Research (Indian Section). Post-graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India; February 16-18, 2018
  • Lakshmi Subramanian: Prof. Devendra K. Agrawal Award for Excellence in Cardiovascular Sciences at the International conference on ‘Recent Advances in Cardiovascular Sciences' and 10th Annual Conference of Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences-Indian Section. Madurai Kamraj University, Madurai, India; February 8-10, 2018


       2017
  • Lakshmi Subramanian: Best Oral Presentation Award at the 2nd MMM Genetics Symposium on "Genetics and Genomics of Cardiovascular Diseases". Madras Medical Mission, Chennai. September 8-9, 2017.
  • Kiranmayi Malapaka: Young Scientist Award from the KV Rao Scientific Society for outstanding achievement in Biology among the Research Scholars & Doctorates of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu & Kerala for the year 2017.
  • Vikas Arige: CC Kartha Travel Grant at the International conference on ‘Recent Advances in Cardiovascular Research: Impact on Health and Disease’ and 9th Annual Conference of International Society of Cardiovascular Sciences (India Section) held at Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, New Delhi, India, February 9-11, 2017.
  • Kiranmayi Malapaka: Prof. Devendra Agrawal Young Investigator Award for the best oral presentation and the CC Kartha Travel Grant at the International conference on ‘Recent Advances in Cardiovascular Research: Impact on Health and Disease’ and 9th Annual Conference of International Society of Cardiovascular Sciences (India Section). Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, New Delhi, India; February 9-11, 2017.
  • Abrar Ali Khan: Prof. N. S. Dhalla Award for the Best Oral Presentation at the 14th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Heart Research (Indian Section). CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi; January 27-29, 2017


       2016
  • Vinayak Gupta: Department of Biotechnology Best Thesis Award (instituted from the 1979 Batch Alumni Endowment Fund) for the year 2015-16
  • Anil Kiran Chokkalla: 48th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress Prize for the best M.Tech. thesis in the area of Biotechnology on IIT Madras Alumni Day, 23th July, 2016
  • Vikas Arige: Best Poster Presentation Prize at 13th Annual Conference of International Society for Heart Research (Indian Section), IIT Madras, January 22-24, 2016


       2015
  • Aman Kumar: 48th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress Prize for the best M.Tech. thesis, IIT Madras; July 25, 2015
  • Lakshmi Subramanian: Registration Fee Waiver Grant towards attending and presenting a paper at the 'The Biology of Genomes Conference' held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA during May 5-9, 2015
  • Lakshmi Subramanian: Dr. N. K. Ganguly Young Investigator Award in Clinical Research for the best oral presentation at12th Annual Conference of International Society for Heart Research (Indian Section). School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India; March 14-15, 2015
  • Kiranmayi Malapaka: Best Poster Presentation Award in the International Symposium on ‘Genomics in Health and Disease’ and 40th Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Human Genetics (ISHG 2015). National Institute of Immunohematology, Mumbai, India; January 28 - 30, 2015


       2014
  • Kalyani Ananthamohan: Travel Grant from EMBO to present a paper at the EMBO/EMBL Symposia: The complex Life of mRNA. EMBL Advanced Training Centre, Heidelberg, Germany; October 5-8, 2014
  • Kiranmayi Malapaka: Dr. N. K. Ganguly Young Investigator Award in Clinical Research for the best oral presentation at the11th Annual Conference of International Society for Heart Research (Indian Section). National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Mohali, Punjab, India; February 8-9, 2014


       2013
  •  Kiranmayi Malapaka: 1st Prize for poster presentation in the BIOMERS 2013, Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras; November 16-17, 2013


       2012
  • Prasanna K. R. Allu: Travel Grant from the EMBL to present a paper at the EMBO Conference Series: From Functional Genomics to Systems Biology, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany; November 17 - 20, 2012
  • Prasanna K. R. Allu: 1st Prize for Poster Presentation in the Biotech Meet for Research Scholars (BIOMERS) 2012, Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras; September 21, 2012


 2010
  •  Bhavani Shankar Sahu: Dr. N. K. Ganguly Young Investigator Award in Clinical Cardiology for the best oral presentation at the 4th World Congress of International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences, Vadodara, India; February 3, 2010


       2009
  • Parimala Geedi: 48th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress Prize for the best M.Tech. thesis, IIT Madras; April 17, 2009.