Awards and Achievements - ICMR-NIRRCH

Miss Krutika Patil, PhD scholar, Molecular Endocrinology received the Best Poster Award for ”Identification of miRNAs regulating angiogenesis in women with polycystic ovary syndrome” at the International Conference on Reproductive Healthcare and 32nd  Annual Meeting of  ISSRF – the Indian Society for the Study of Reproduction and Fertility  held from  February 11-13, 2022

Ms Krutika Patil received the Dr Shanta Rao Award 2022 for Best Research Paper for her publication titled “Alteration in angiogenic potential of granulosa-lutein cells and follicular fluid contributes to luteal defects in polycystic ovary syndrome” published in Human Reproduction, presenting a part of the doctoral work supervised by Dr. Srabani Mukherjee.

*The award is instituted in remembrance of our Founder Director Dr. Shanta Rao.

Ms. Shilpa Bhowmick, PhD student, Viral Immunopathogenesis Lab has been awarded Travel Grant from DBT-CTEP Programme to attend and present the work on sMAdCAM: IL-6 Ratio Influences Disease Progression and Anti-Viral Responses in SARS-CoV-2 Infection at an international conference 15th World Congress on Inflammation- New Frontiers in Inflammation: From Translational Research to Clinic which was held in Rome, Italy from 5th June, 2022 to 8th June, 2022.

Mukherjee N. Early-career Woman Scientist Award: Oration Award by Indian Immunology Society at the 49th Annual Conference & General Body Meeting of Indian Immunology Society Immunocon-2022 at PGIMER, Chandigarh, November 24-26, 2022.

DVS Sudhakar. Young Investigator Award at 39th Annual meeting of the SRBCE (International Conference on Reproductive Biology, Comparative Endocrinology and Development) jointly organised by University of Hyderabad and  CCMB, Hyderabad, September, 14-16, 2022.

Mr. Aalaap A Naigaonkar, PhD Scholar, Molecular Endocrinology was awarded second prize in oral presentation on “Unraveling the glucose metabolism dynamics in follicular environment of women with PCOS” at the 38th National Conference on Reproduction and Endocrinology, organized by Society for Reproductive Biology and Comparative Endocrinology (SRBCE) held at University of Mysore from December 28-30, 2021

Mr Pavan Kumar, PhD scholar, Infectious Diseases Biology was awarded EMBO- travel grant and registration fee waiver for in-person participation and poster presentation on “Expression of NK cell receptors in biological specimens of ovarian cancer patients: Pre and post chemotherapy and future prospectives” at the EMBO-Cancer Immunometabolism Workshop, Sitges, Barcelona, Spain held from November 29, 2021 to December 2, 2021

Dr Antara Banerjee, Scientist B, Cellular and Structural Biology is the recipient of SERB Women Excellence Award 2021

Dr. Roshan Dadachanji, ICMR-Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Molecular Endocrinology was awarded 3rd prize for poster presentation at 6th Annual Conference of The PCOS Society of India entitled “Fundamental Concepts in PCOS – Bridging the gaps”on 2nd – 3rd October 2021

Ms, Sweta Nair, PhD student, Neuroendocrinology received extraordinary entry prize for research poster and Covid slogan from Association of Clinical Biochemists and Microbiologists, Nagpur, Maharashtra, Academic e-carnival, Oct 2-3, 2021