Awards and Achievements

Dr Srabani Mukherjee has been selected for  ICMR-Swaran Kanta Dingley Oration award 2019 for outstanding contribution in the field of Reproductive Biology

Mr. Pavan Kumar, PhD. student, Infectious Diseases Biology Lab was awarded EMBO Short-Term Fellowship renamed as ‘Scientific exchange grant’. He carried out research in the lab of Prof. Ario De Marco at the Centre for Biomedical Sciences and Engineering, University of Nova Gorica, Vipava, Slovenia for a period of three months (Nov-Feb 2019).

International travel award for Non-ICMR scientists to present work entitled ‘The vaginal microbiome of premenopausal Indian women: A comparison of healthy and dysbiotic flora’ at Keystone symposia for the Role of the Genial tract microbiome in sexual and reproductive health Cape town, South Africa, December 11-15,2018

Dr Rahul Gajbhiye was appointed an International Ambassador by World Endometriosis Society (WES) in 2018. WES is the global organisation for endometriosis and adenomyosis clinical practice, research, education, and advocacy. WES facilitates research in aetiology, pathogenesis, and pathophysiology of endometriosis and adenomyosis, to discover the cure and prevent endometriosis.

Dr Gajbhiye’s research programmes are focused on the pathogenesis of endometriosis, non-invasive markers for the diagnosis of endometriosis, pregnancy outcomes in Indian women with endometriosis, clinical phenotypes and genetic risks for endometriosis, and the association between endometriosis and ovarian cancer. Dr Gajbhiye is actively collaborating with World Endometriosis Research Foundation (WERF) for implementation of WERF- EPhect research instruments in low resource settings.

http://endometriosis.ca/about/ambassador/gajbhiye-rahul/

Ms. Sukeshani Salwe Ph.D student, Division of Biochemistry & Virology received the Best Oral Presentation Award for presenting the work entitled “Immune signatures for HIV-1 and HIV-2 induced CD4+T cell dysregulation in an Indian cohort “at 19^th Indo-US Cytometry Symposium & Workshop on Advanced Flow Cytometry & Application at held at NIRRH from 15^th to 17^th February 2018 .

Ms. Rinku Pramanick, Ph D student, Molecular Immunology and Microbiology was awarded Dr. Suresh K. Mahajan Memorial Scholarship,by Indian Women Scientific Association (IWSA) at  Mumbai, January 13, 2018.

Ms. Parul Bedi, PhD student, Division of Molecular Immunology and Microbiology, received the Best Poster Presentation Award-1st Place for the work entitled, “Flow Cytometric Analysis of Membrane Vesicles from an Anaerobic Reproductive Tract Pathogen” at the 19^th Indo-US Cytometry Symposium & Workshop on Advanced Flow Cytometry & Applications held at NIRRH from 15^th – 17^th February 2018.

Dr Smita D Mahale, Director received ‘Prof. N. R. Moudgal Memorial Oration Award for the year 2017’ at the 27th Annual Meeting of the ISSRF and International Conference on Reproductive Health with Emphasis on Strategies for Infertility, Assisted Reproduction and Family Planning, ICMR, New Delhi during January 23 to 25, 2017.

Ms. Kalyani Karandikar, PhD student, Division of Molecular Immunology and Microbiology, received the Best Poster Award for the work entitled, “Gut Dysbiosis in Infants with Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) Infection” at the 1st Genomics Analysis and Technology Conference, GATC 2017, held at VITS,Mumbai on 10th-11th February 2017.

3rd prize in Oral presentation for the topic ‘Role of Rab11a in Endometrial Adhesiveness and Cohesiveness’ at National Research Scholars Meet (NRSM) held at ACTREC, 14th and 15th December, 2017