Awards and Achievements -

Ms Pushpa Singh, PhD SRF, received Dr (Mrs) Mridula Kamboj Young Scientist Award at the International Conference on Reproductive Healthcare & 32nd Annual Meeting of the Indian Society for the Study of Reproduction and Fertility (ISSRF-2022) to be held during 11th – 13th February, 2022.

Mrs Ankita Kaushik, PhD SRF, received Prof. N. R. Moudgal Young Scientist Award at the International Conference on Reproductive Healthcare & 32nd Annual Meeting of the Indian Society for the Study of Reproduction and Fertility (ISSRF-2022) to be held during 11th – 13th February, 2022.

Dr. Taruna Madan, Scientist F and Head, Department of Innate Immunity was conferred with Dr. (Mrs.) Mridula Kamboj Memorial Oration, 2022 for her work entitled, “Soluble pattern recognizing collectins are integral to human reproductive health”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

Dr. Rahul K Gajbhiye‘s has been awarded Prof. N. R. Moudgal Memorial Oration-2022 award at the  International Conference on Reproductive Healthcare & 32nd Annual Meeting of the Indian Society for the Study of Reproduction and Fertility (ISSRF-2022), February 11-13, 2022.

Ms Kashmira Bane received the ICMR-NIRRCH Foundation Day Award 2022 for the Best Research Paper for her publication titled “Endometrial DNA damage response is modulated in endometriosis” published in Human Reproduction, presenting a part of the doctoral work supervised by Dr. Geetanjali Sachdeva.

*The award is instituted by Dr. Smita Mahale, Former Director, ICMR-NIRRCH, and her Associates.

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