Dr Tapomoy Bhattacharjee, faculty member at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru, has been elected as an EMBO Young Investigator as part of the 2025 cohort.

Sociologist Gita Chadha has been conferred with the Laadli Media and Advertising Award for Gender Sensitivity 2025 for the series "Gender in/of Science: Feminist Conversations Part 1", produced with the NCBS Communications Team as part of her work as the Obaid Siddiqi Chair in the History and Culture of Science at the Archives at NCBS.

Dr. Padubidri V. Shivaprasad, Professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru is the Food Security Winner for Tata Transformation Prize 2025. The prize entails a research grant of INR 2 crores (approximately USD 228,000) to advance their research and support real-world implementation.

We are delighted to share that Dr. Anjana Badrinarayanan, faculty member at NCBS–TIFR, has been awarded the Infosys Prize 2025 in Life Sciences.

Dr Deepa Agashe, Associate Professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS-TIFR), Bengaluru, is the recipient of the Rashtriya Vigyan Yuva Puraskar 2025, conferred by the Government of India.

Link to the Announcement: https://awards.gov.in/

Link to Dr Deepa Agashe's lab webpage: https://adaptationlab.in/

Four graduate students from the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru, won the Best Poster Award at the 9th Asia Chromatin Meet, held from 9-11 October at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune.

1. Nija George (Dr Sabarinathan Radhakrishnan's lab)

2. Surya Sarathi Das (Dr Sabarinathan Radhakrishnan's lab)

Dr Mousumi Baruah, post-doctoral researcher from Dr Pratik Kumar's lab at the National Centre for Biological Sciences(NCBS), Bengaluru, had been awarded the National Post Doctoral Fellowship (N-PDF) by the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), India

Raman Kaushik, graduate student from Dr Raj Ladher's lab at the National Centre for Biological Sciences(NCBS), Bengaluru, had been awarded the Zeeshan Khan Memorial 2025 Award (Runner-up) for the Best Paper published using Light Microscopy in India, at the Bangalore Microscopy Course held from 14-21 September, 2025 at NCBS.

Prof Mahesh Sankaran, faculty at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru was awarded the J.C. Bose Grant 2025, by the Anusandhan National Research Foundation for the project titled:"Grasslands in the Anthropocene: global change impacts on grassland dynamics in the Indian subcontinent."