Awards & Honors

Mansi and Suman won the Best poster award at the India EMBO lecture RNA virus infection and host immune responses, Regional Centre for Biotechnology (RCB), Faridabad 2026
Rishad received a Travel Grant to attend the Vaccinology workshop 15 Feb to 15 Mar 2026 at the Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
Shashank won the Keshvi Sharma Memorial Award 2025 for excellence in Fundamental Virology, awarded by the NIV Research Foundation at VIROCON 2025
Sumandeep won the Excellent poster award in India EMBO Cell Autonomous Defense and Innate Immunity Conference held in Hyderabad 3-5th Dec 2025
Shachee received the travel award and the best poster award at the India EMBO Cell Autonomous Defense and Innate Immunity Conference held in Hyderabad between 3-5th Dec 2025.
Sumandeep received the Travel award for Cytokines 2025; held in Seattle, USA
Rajesh won the Best poster award at 52nd IMMUNOCON-2025, Annual conference of Indian Immunology Society,19-22nd Nov, 2025 oragnized by the MNNIT Allahabad, Prayagraj
Mansi received Travel grant to attend the Keystone symposia 2025 “Predicting and responding to emerging viral infections” Geneva, Switzerland
Mansi and Rajesh were awarded the Best Poster and Best Oral presentation award respectively at the 8th Molecular Virology, Institute of Advanced Virology (IAV), Thiruvananthapuram,18-20th Sep, 2025
Rajesh is awarded the Best Poster Award from RSC Chemical Biology at the 10th Annual Research Symposium 2024, 11-13th Jan 2024, organized by the Bioengineering Department, IISc Bengaluru
Rohan received ICGEB Travel Grant to attend the “International Conference on Pandemic prepardness – Achievements, current challenges and new frontiers“, 11-13th Nov 2024, Trieste, Italy
Oyahida Khatun is awarded the Sun Pharma Research Scholar Award under pharma
Mansi is awarded the American Society for Virology (ASV) Travel Award
Oyahida gets SERB International Travel Award to attend Keystone Positive Strand RNA Virus Meeting in Killarney, Ireland.
Shashank is awarded the Axis Bank Travel Award
Shashank is inducted into the Early Career Board of ACS Infectious Disease
Rohan gets awarded DBT-RA Fellowship
Shashank is awarded the INSA Associate Fellowship 2023.
Rohan is awarded the CSIR Travel Award 2023.
Oyahida is awarded the ASV Travel Award 2023 by The American Society of Virology.
Rajesh is awarded the Travel Grant to attend the International Vaccinology course held at Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
Mansi is awarded the Best Poster Award in BTMO 2023.
Shashank is Awarded Global Scholar Award (2022) by the American Society for Virology
Rishad is selected for the SERB-FICCI-PMRF fellowship
Oyahida Gets ISIRV Travel award to attend OPTIONS XI Meeting in Belfast.
Abhijith Biji is awarded “Best Oral Presentation Award” and “Travel Grant” at International conference on “Coronaviruses:Past,Present and Future” held in SKUAST,Jammu and Kashmir as a part of UK-ICN(UK-International Coronavirus Network)
Oyahida Khatun is awarded “Young achiever award 2021” from InRes Institute of Researchers
Abhijith Biji is awarded “The Best Elevator Pitch” in MCB Student-Postdoc Symposium 2021
Sumandeep Kaur is selected for ‘Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship’ 2021
Rajesh Yadav is selected Top 5 Finalist, BRICS Young Innovator Awards 2021
Shachee Swaraj is selected for ‘Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship’ 2020.
Oyahida Khatun is selected for “Awasar Award’ in best stories category for her story on Influenza A virus live imaging. (2019)
Shashank is awarded Tata Trust International Travel Grant. (2019)
Shashank is selected for Infosys Young Investigator Award. (2019)
Shashank is awarded and activated Wellcome Trust Intermediate Fellowship. (2019)

Pre IISc:

EMBED fellowship by NIH for training in analysis of Global Proteomic datasets in University of California, San Francisco (2016)
Travel Grant by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India to attend Gordon Research Conference (2012)
Best Oral presentation, “Antivirals for developing world” symposium by ICGEB & ICAV, New Delhi, India (2012).
Best Student Award and Travel Grant, 2010 HKU-Pasteur Virology Course, Hong Kong (2010).
Senior Research Fellowship awarded by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi (2009-2012).
Junior Research Fellowship awarded by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi (2007-2009).
Junior Research Fellowship awarded by the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi (2006-2007)
Junior Research Fellowship awarded by the University Grants Commission (UGC) (2004-2005).
Gold Medal, Master degree program in Department of Biotechnology, University of North Bengal India. (2004)
Department of Biotechnology Fellowship for Master’s level education in Biotechnology (2002-2004)