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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

Dr Krushnamegh Kunte, Associate Professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fendamental Research (NCBS-TIFR), Bengaluru, was honoured with the 'Vasundhara Sathi Sanman" by Maharashtra Times and Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB).

Reflecting on this recognition, Dr. Krushnamegh Kunte shared: 

Sreepadmanabh M, graduate student from Dr Tapomoy Bhattacharjee's lab at the National Centre for Biological Sciences was awarded the Graduate Research Excellence Award by the Forum on Graduate Student Affairs, American Physical Society, for attending the APS Global Physics Summit 2026 in Denver, USA 

Swarnadip Ghosh, graduate student from Dr Soumyashree Das's lab at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Insitiute of Fundamental Research (NCBS-TIFR), Bengaluru won the Best Poster Award at Vascular Biology

Sreepadmanabh M., graduate student from Dr Tapomoy Bhattacharjee's lab at the National Centre for Biological Sciences- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (NCBS-TIFR), Bengaluru

Dr Anjana Badrinarayanan, Associate Professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences.

Official Announcement: https://www.ias.ac.in/application/Fellows_2025.pdf

Anubhav Prakash, graduate student from Dr Raj Ladher’s lab, and Rajat Mann, graduate student from Dr Dimple Notanis’ lab at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Tnstitute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru (NCBS-TIFR) are co-winners of the "Professor Obaid Siddiqi Best Paper Award 2024"

Arpitha Jayanth (Professor Mahesh Sankaran's Lab) and Sakshi Shigvan (Dr Dimple Notani's Lab), graduate students at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru have been selected this year for t