Awards and Recognitions

Faculties

Professor BK Bachhawat Memorial Life Time Achievement Award in Neuroscience

Dr. Shashi Bala Singh, President, Indian Academy of Neurosciences (IAN) and Former Advisor, DRDO and currently the Director, NIPER, Hyderabad and the General Secretary of IAN, Prof PK Seth, CEO Biotechnology Park, Lucknow felicitated the winner for the year 2019 at the 37^th Annual Meeting of the Academy at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi on 19^th Nov 2019.

Dr. KP Mohanakumar, currently the Director of IUCBR & SSH, a new Research Station with Mahatma Gandhi University situated at its Campus at Thalappady has been awarded the most prestigious award of the Academy for his overall contributions in neuroscience working from India, and based on his publications, receipt of recognition in science by Govt Bodies, and for the contribution that significantly influenced the growth of neuroscience in India. His pioneering work in neuroscience included serotoninergic basis of Parkinsonian tremor, development of a new generation of neuronal lines with mitochondrial defects specific for a number of neurological diseases, such as Parkinson’s disease, Autism and Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity disorders. His contributions to understanding the molecular basis of Parkinsonism employing postmortem human brain samples, cellular and animal models of the disease are phenomenal and milestones in the area.

Students

Neethu P– Poster presentation award at the Indian Society for Extracellular Vesicles (InSEV) annual conference at AIIMS, New Delhi

P Prabin– Oral Presentation award at nternational Conference on Microbiome in Biodefence and Therapeutics (ICMBT) 2024 -25.

ICMBT 2024-25 held at Bharathiraja University, Coimbatore from 19-20 February 2025.

P. Prabin secured 2nd place in the oral presentation category for his talk on “n silico designing of novel peptides targeting the NS1 protein RBD region of Influenza virus”.

Neethumol O P– Received travel grant and child care grant for attending European molecular biology organisation (EMBO) conference and Global exchange lecture course on “Neural circuits in health and disease” held at IISER Mohali, Punjab from from 13-17th February 2025

Jimna Mohamed Ameer– Best Poster Presentation award at 37th Kerala Science congress.

At the 37th Kerala Science Congress, held at Kerala Agricultural University in Thrissur from 7-10 February 2025

Jimna Muhamed Ameer received the Best Poster Presentation Award in the Health Science category for the work titled “Mitochondrial Dysfunction Drives Lysosomal Deficits Through Parkin-SNX9 Dependent Vesicular Trafficking.”