The University of Liverpool officially inaugurated its Bengaluru campus on 15 October 2026 marking a significant milestone in UK–India higher education cooperation. It is the first Russell Group university campus in Karnataka, bringing an internationally recognised UK university closer to students in southern India. Nearly 300 students joined the institution’s inaugural cohort.

On this occasion, a Letter of Intent (LoI) was signed between the University of Liverpool and NCBS to strengthen the research academic and research partnerships between the institutes.

We are delighted to share that Dr. Vamsee Mallajosyula, faculty member at the NCBS - TIFR, has been awarded the Ramanujan Arogya Udaan Samman

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Prof. P.V. Shivaprasad, faculty member at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru was awarded the J.C. Bose Grant 2026 by the Anusandhan National Research Foundation.

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Dr. Dimple Notani, Associate Professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru has been elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India. 

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Prof. Raghu Padinjat, Senior Professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy.

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Prof. R. Sowdhamini, faculty member at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru was awarded the J.C. Bose Grant 2026, by the Anusandhan National Research Foundation for the project titled:"Large scale genome computational analysis with special emphasis on medicinal plant genomes".

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Prof. Madan Rao, Professor Emeritus at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (NCBS-TIFR), Bengaluru, was a recipient of the 2026 SASTRA Obaid Siddiqi Award.

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Shubham, graduate student from the Community and Functional Ecology lab (CaFE) of Dr Meghna Krishnadas at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (NCBS-TIFR), Bengaluru, was awarded the Harvard Ashton Award for Student Research by the Arnold Arboretum of the Harvard University, USA