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Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-chancellor of Cambridge University visits campus
Wednesday, September 21st, 2016
Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-chancellor of Cambridge University visited the NCBS and inStem campus on the 16th of September. Sir Leszek, accompanied by a senior Cambridge delegation also took time to interact with researchers on the campus.
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NCBS faculty members awarded Max Planck-DST partner group awards
Wednesday, August 31st, 2016

 

The National Centre for Biological Sciences is pleased to announce that faculty member Radhika Venkatesan has been awarded a Max Planck-DST Partner group award!

Interview with Prof. Inder Verma
Thursday, August 18th, 2016

 

Eve Marder, scientific advisor for NCBS, wins the 2016 Kavli Prize for Neuroscience
Thursday, June 16th, 2016

The National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) congratulates its scientific board member, Eve Marder, on being one of the recipients of the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience for 2016.

Launching the NCBS Archives
Friday, June 10th, 2016

The National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) completes 25 years this October!

To commemorate the occasion, NCBS has created an institutional archive. The NCBS Archives will work closely with the TIFR Archives to become a vital resource centre for historical research on NCBS. The Archives  also aims to serve as a hub for dialogue on the history of research in the biological sciences in India.

Infosys Foundation provides corpus support to the Bangalore Life Science Cluster to promote global connectivity in scientific research
Anusha Krishnan
Monday, May 2nd, 2016

 

Dr. Uma Ramakrishnan wins the Parker/Gentry Award for 2016
Anusha Krishnan
Tuesday, April 19th, 2016

The National Centre for Biological Sciences congratulates Dr. Uma Ramakrishnan on winning the Parker/Gentry award for 2016!

Satyajit Mayor awarded the prestigious Margdarshi fellowship
Anusha Krishnan
Monday, March 21st, 2016

 

Prof. Satyajit Mayor, Director, National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) and Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), is the latest recipient of the prestigious Margdarshi fellowship.

NCBS, inStem and University of Edinburgh renew MoU
Monday, March 7th, 2016

 

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been renewed between the institutes at the Bangalore Life Science Cluster and The University of Edinburgh on the 18th of February 2016, to reinforce ongoing collaborations and create a framework for developing new areas of mutual interest.

India-EMBO Partnership Symposium
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016

The Bangalore Life Science Cluster campus hosted a unique event celebrating 30 years of the Department of Biotechnology and announcing the launch of a new EMBO-DBT partnership for funding Indian researchers.

In Conversation with Raghu Padinjat
Monday, January 18th, 2016

Raghu Padinjat is a Doctor-turned-Researcher and Wellcome Trust-DBT India Alliance Senior Research Fellow at NCBS, whose group studies information transfer mediated by lipid molecules.

A Year in News - 2015
Thursday, December 31st, 2015

Highlights of 2015:
Links to these news events and stories are:
Top gear - the mechanics of insect flight
A laboratory without walls
Exploring the diversity of chemical signals in nature
Science on tracks: NCBS and the Science Express
Anusha Krishnan
Monday, November 30th, 2015

 

A science exhibition on the move? It's a fantastic idea that has been travelling on the Indian railway tracks for seven years. The Science Express is a unique moving science exhibition mounted on a 16-coach AC train that was first flagged off in 2007 by the then Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh and German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel.

An interview with Simon Kay
Tuesday, November 17th, 2015

Research is a global activity not restricted by geographical boundaries and talented researchers with good ideas need research funding that helps their work transcend borders and further knowledge.

Narayana Murthy visits Bangalore Life Sciences Cluster.
Tuesday, August 25th, 2015

Mr Narayana Murthy, Founder of Infosys, visited Bangalore Life Sciences Cluster campus on 25th August. He visited the laboratories and interacted with researchers at NCBS, inStem and CCAMP.

 

 

 

Kamal Bawa, Ajay Sood and John Kuriyan elected as Fellows and Foreign members of the Royal Society in London.
Wednesday, May 13th, 2015
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Satyajit Mayor Elected Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences.
Wednesday, April 29th, 2015

Prof. Satyajit Mayor, Director, National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) and Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), has been elected a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

Key architect of the Human Genome Project visits NCBS
Saturday, February 28th, 2015

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits campus
Wednesday, February 18th, 2015

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, visited the Bangalore Biocluster campus to interact with the researchers there and for discussions on the challenges facing modern biological research in the country. He was greeted by Biotechnology Secretary Prof K VijayRaghavan, Prof Satyajit Mayor, the Director of NCBS and inStem, Prof Upinder Bhalla, Dean, NCBS and Prof Apurva Sarin, Dean inStem from the BioCluster and taken to some of the laboratories to see cutting edge stem cell research. He then had a vibrant and truly interactive engagement with faculty, students and staff at the Biocluster, on subjects ranging from international collaborative research, the use of stem cell based therapies and scientific outreach.
A LABORATORY WITHOUT WALLS
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015

Researchers at NCBS have signed a new agreement with the Developmental biology Institute of Marseille (IBDM) and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) to put in place a LIA or a “Laboratory without walls”.

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