Details of awards, honors, and recognitions
2025
- Feb 2025: Seemadri and Paras receive the 1st and 2nd best poster prizes at ‘Physics of Cells and Tissues 3.0’ symposium held at IISc.
- Jan 2025: Sarthak receives the Best Talk Award at 6th Annual Conference of Immuno-Oncology Society of India (I-OSI 2025).
2024
- Dec 2024: Mohit receives Manohar Parrikar Yuva Scientist Award, Govt. of Goa that honors “scientists less than 35 years of age and who have contributed substantially to science, technology & innovation”.
- Dec 2024: Gopal receives the Best Poster Prize at the International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB 2024).
- Sept 2024: Soundharya receives the 2nd Best Poster Prize at 5th Indian Genome Cancer Atlas (ICGA) Conference.
- Sept 2024: Mohit is awarded the Young Outstanding Engineering Alumnus Award, Rice University that honors exceptional alumni from the School of Engineering under the age of 40.
- Aug 2024: Soujanya and Ijas are awarded the Axis Bank Center PhD Fellowship.
- July 2024: Prasanna receives a travel award to attend the 2024 joint Annual Meeting of Society for Mathematical Biology and Korean Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB – KSMB) in Seoul.
- July 2024: Baishakhi receives a travel award to the FASEB Conference on ‘Dynamics and Encoding in Cell Signaling’.
- Jun 2024: Seemadri, Sarthak and Partha receive the 1st, 2nd and 3rd best poster prizes at ‘Physics of Cells and Tissues 2.0’ symposium held at IISc.
- Mar 2024: Mohit co-organizes a two-week workshop on ‘Theoretical Approaches in cancer progression and treatment’ at International Center for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bangalore.
- May 2024: Kishore receives the Reinhart Heinrich Doctoral Thesis Award by European Society for Mathematical & Theoretical Biology (ESMTB) for best PhD thesis in mathematical & theoretical biology.
- Jan 2024: Kishore receives the Ovine Aruno Outreach Award, ESMTB that is awarded once every two years to honor a young researcher from a Southern country for their remarkable research contributions.
2023
- Dec 2023: Prasanna receives travel support to attend the workshop on ‘Simulating tissue dynamics with Cellular Potts model’, Lorentz Center, Netherlands.
- Nov 2023: Mohit is awarded the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) Prize that honors
“outstanding and original contributions in physics by young scientists from, and working in, developing countries”. - Nov 2023: Param Hansa Center for Computational Oncology, to be led by Mohit, is set up at IISc, with the goal to seed and nurture an active community of future leaders in computational oncology in India, through inter-institutional, cross-disciplinary collaborations among academia, medicine, and industry.
- Oct 2023: Harshavardhan receives Best Poster Award at the 4th Indian Genome Cancer Atlas (ICGA) Conference, IISER Pune.
- Oct 2023: Paras receives travel award for the Integrative Mathematical Oncology (IMO) workshop at Moffitt Cancer Center and is a part of the 1st runner-up team in the weeklong hackathon held there.
- Aug 2023: Soundharya receives the Axis Bank Center PhD Fellowship.
- Jul 2023: Paras receives Landahl Travel Award to attend the Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting (SMB 2023).
- Apr 2023: Kishore receives Open Arms Travel Award for Network Science (NetSci 2023) conference.
- Mar 2023: Sarthak receives the Best Poster Award at the Symposium on Cancer Cell Plasticity held at University College London (UCL).
- Jan 2023: Seemadri and Kishore won the 2nd and 3rd Best Poster Award respectively at the ‘Physics of Cells and Tissues’ Symposium held at IISc.
- Jan 2023: Pradyumna is awarded the Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF) by Government of India.
- Jan 2023: Pradyumna and Prasanna receive the Best Poster Award at the Annual Meeting of Indian Association for Cancer Research (IACR 2023) held at ACTREC, Mumbai.
- Jan 2023: Seemadri receives the 2nd Best Poster Award at the 9th BSSE Annual Symposium, IISc.
- Jan 2023: Mohit takes over as the Editor-in-Chief at NPJ Systems Biology and Applications, Nature Publishing Group.
2022
- Dec 2022: Mohit serves as a guest editor for Journal of BioSciences (published by Indian Academy of Sciences) for a thematic issue on ‘Emergent dynamics of biological networks’.
- Nov 2022: Mohit receives the Young Alumnus Award by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur that honors two alumni each year “who are less then 40 years of age and have contributed significantly and achieved outstanding recognition in their career.”
- Nov 2022: Mohit receives the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Young Scientist Award.
- Nov 2022: Mohit receives the UCL-IISc seed grant fund in collaboration with Maria Secrier (UCL).
- Jul 2022: Harshavardhan is awarded the Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF) by Government of India.
- Jul 2022: Mohit is appointed as an Associate Editor at NPJ Systems Biology and Applications, Nature Publishing Group.
- Jan 2022: Sarthak is awarded the Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF), Government of India.
2021
- Jul 2021: Divyoj and Ushasi win the 2021 Virtual PhysiCell Hackathon for a multi-scale model of EMT, along with team members from University of Pennsylvania.
- Jul 2021: Mohit is selected as an Associate of Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc).
- Jun 2021:Maalavika receives the Best Contributed Talk (Oncology) at 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB 2021).
- Jun 2021: Souvadra receives the Best Poster Prize at 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB 2021).
2020
- Nov 2020:Mohit receivesYoung Investigator Award, Cells Tissues Organs journal (Karger Publishers).
- Nov 2020: Mohit is recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer by the journal Experimental Biology and Medicine, published by Society of Experimental Biology & Medicine (SEBM).
- Nov 2020: Mohit receives the Infosys Young Investigator fellowship, IISc.
- Oct 2020: Mohit is appointed as an Adjunct Faculty at the School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
- Oct 2020: Subbalakshmi wins the first runner-up poster award at the International Poster Presentation Competition (IPCC 2020).
- Aug 2020: Mohit serves as a guest editor for a special issue on phenotypic plasticity of the Journal of the Indian Institute of Science (Springer).
- Aug 2020: Atchuta is awarded the Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF), Government of India.
- Jun 2020: Mohit co-edits a book ‘Phenotypic Switching: Implications in Biology and Medicine’ published by Elsevier.
- Jul 2020: Mohit takes over as Co-chair of Mathematical Oncology subgroup of Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB).
- Feb 2020: Mohit is selected as a member of the Indian National Young Academy of Sciences (INYAS).
- Jan 2020: Kishore receives the Best Poster Award at BSSE Annual Symposium 2020.
- Jan 2020: Kishore wins the Best Poster Award, International Conference on ‘Phenotypic Heterogeneity as a driver of cancer progression’, IISc.
2019
- Nov 2019: Mohit takes over as the Secretary, the EMT International Association (TEMTIA).
- Aug 2019: Kishore is awarded the Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF), Government of India.
- Mar 2019: Mohit receives the SPARC (Scheme for Promotion of Academic & Research Collaboration) grant in collaboration with Anu Rangarajan (IISc), Rik Thompson and Brett Hollier (QUT, Australia).
2018
- Dec 2018: Mohit is recognized as an outstanding reviewer for Physical Biology journal, published by the Institute of Physics, UK.
- Dec 2018: Mohit receives the Ramanujan Fellowship awarded by Science and Engineering Research Board, Government of India.