The R. Bruce Merrifield Award was established in 1997 by an endowment from Rao Makineni. It acknowledges and awards the the lifetime achievement of a peptide scientist, whose work has acheived the highest level of scientific creativity.

The BLiSC Campus communication office and the Photography Club held a photography competition on World Environment Day 2022. Here are the top 4 finalists in each category. 

(The images are also displayed above - hover your mouse to see their title and photographer names)

THEME: Shades of life

Prof Mamannamana Vijayan sadly passed away on 24 April 2022. He was well known in macromolecular crystallography both within India and internationally, and has supported bioinformatics and drug design efforts within the country.

Prof. Shannon Olsson, faculty and chemical ecologist at NCBS, will be honoured in the 2nd edition of the ‘She Is’ book series, which talks about 75 inspiring Women In STEAM from India!

On the Rare Disease Day, we approached Prof. Raghu Padinjat, Cell biologist, Dean Research, NCBS-TIFR, to learn about his work on using stem cells to understand Lowe Syndrome.

This is about our journey with our son Naithan John Mathew living with a rare disease called Lowe syndrome, or the Oculocerebrorenal syndrome; we call it as Peter Pan syndrome. It is a rare X-linked recessive disorder characterized by congenital cataracts, hypotonia, intellectual proteinuria.

“One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself.” - Neil Degrasse Tyson

Using maths to correct for natural selection in Mutation Accumulation experiments