Abhinav Parivesh, a Senior Research Fellow at IISER Pune, has won the Elsevier DNA Repair Best Poster award at the Zing Conference on Genomic Integrity that took place at Cairns, Australia this August.  This was the only award at the conference sponsored by the Elsevier journal DNA Repair and it com...

Dr. Gyana Ranjan Tripathy, Assistant Professor in Earth and Climate Sciences at IISER Pune, has been selected as a ‘Young Associate’ of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore. The Academy, an association of Indian scientists founded in 1934, is engaged in promotion and dissemination of science t...

Prof. Sanjeev Galande has won the prestigious G. D. Birla Award for Scientific Research for the year 2014. Instituted in 1991 by the K. K. Birla Foundation, the award is given in recognition of scientific research of high calibre to Indian scientists below the age of 50 years living and working in ...

Dr. G. V. Pavan Kumar, Assistant Professor at IISER Pune, has won the NASI-Scopus Young Scientist award in Physics for 2015. The award was initiated by Scopus™ in 2006 to recognize knowledge and expertise of young Indian researchers. Since 2009, they have partnered with the National Academy of Scie...

Prof. K. N. Ganesh, Director, IISER Pune has been chosen for the H. K. Firodia Vijnan Bhushan Award for Excellence in Science & Technology for the year 2015. The award is given in the memory of late Mr. H. K. Firodia to eminent Indian scientists for their original and outstanding contributions to a...

The Science Club of IISER Pune has brought out a newsletter, Helicase, to chronicle its various activities. Science Club is a students’ initiative that promotes science outside the classroom by organizing events that spread the excitement of doing science. The very first issue of their newsletter...

Two scientists from IISER Pune, Dr Akanksha Chaturvedi (Assistant Professor in Biology) and Dr Krishanpal Karmodiya (DST INSPIRE Fellow), have won the Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award (IYBA) for the year 2014. The award is given by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India to ...

Dr John Mathew, Associate Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at IISER Pune, was recently featured in an article in the English-language daily The Hindu. Dr Mathew has two doctorates to his credit, one in Ecology and another in the History of Science. His research interests include the Histo...

The IISER Pune students’ Science Club began 2015 with a series of talks by eminent scientists from varied fields. In this series organized for the students and by the students, distinguished speakers are invited to give popular lectures on their areas of research. The first talk of the season was g...

In an incredibly fun and creative event, students at IISER Pune have managed to paint what could possibly be one of the largest compositions painted in the Warli style. The goal was to gain entry into the Limca Book of Records, but what was even more exciting to witness is the collective effort p...

IISER Pune students have put up a wonderful show at the CSIR-UGC joint National Eligibility Test (NET) in 2012. Congratulations to all of them!! Students who are selected through CSIR-UGC NET will receive a fellowship to pursue research after completing Master’s degree and the top few rank holder...

Three scientists from IISER Pune—G.V. Pavan Kumar, Sujit Ghosh, and M. Jeganmohan—have been awarded the Indian National Science Academy’s Medals for Young Scientists for 2013. These medals, which will be presented in December this year, recognize promising young investigators in India who have made ...

Milind Watve’s book Doves, Diplomats and Diabetes challenges the current understanding of diabetes and prods researchers to test his alternative model. Here, Watve chats with us on the origins of his book and of the ideas presented in there. When did the ideas presented in this book originate and...