Dr. Richa Rikhy’s work on the organization and function of mitochondria in the context of early embryonic development in fruit flies was covered on Research Matters. August 28, 2017. ...

Cipla Foundation is supporting the construction of an undergraduate chemistry laboratory at IISER Pune. The news was covered by the Times of India, Hindustan Times. August 28, 2017. ...

An advanced Instrumentation facility for life science research set up by PerkinElmer was inaugurated at IISER Pune. Hindu Business Line, Indian Express, Times of India, ...

An advanced Instrumentation facility for researchers and students of life sciences set up by PerkinElmer, a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, was inaugurated today at IISER Pune. The PerkinElmer-IISER Pune Centre of Excellence is a cutting-edge instrumentation facility tha...

Earlier this year, the Cipla Foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding with IISER Pune, where it committed to contribute to the Endowment Fund of the institute to build a modern chemistry research laboratory for undergraduate students. As a formal commencement of this initiative, the ground...

Following the announcement of endowment to IISER Pune from Balan group in May last year, the two organizations have now signed a formal agreement towards for construction of a building for for a science activity centre at IISER Pune. In a total of 60,000 sq ft of area, this building, “Smt. Indrani ...

Modelling studies detailed in Prof Milind Watve's recent research paper suggest that glucose and insulin may not be central to type 2 diabetes. The Hindu Business Line , BioSpectrum, Research Matters and Pune Mirror covered the news. August 8, 2017. ...

Disha, a volunteer student group of IISER Pune, conducts educational outreach for underprivileged children around the Pashan area. The activities at one of their study centres in Lamani Vasti were covered by the Times of India. August 8, 2017. ...

Shishir Sankhyayan, a PhD student in the Physics Programme at IISER Pune has been involved in two major astronomical discoveries that have received world-wide attention-- the supercluster Saraswati, and 25 rare Giant Radio Galaxies. In this feature article, Harshini Tekur gives us a detailed bre...

The glucose-insulin connection in type 2 diabetes mellitus is well established and the treatment regime is centered on lowering glucose levels through insulin. With the best available treatment being a combination of medication and changes in lifestyle, a cure for diabetes has been eluding us. Pro...

The CMS experiment is a general purpose detector which is used to study the results of high energy proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Analyzing the collision data gives particle physicists insight into the fundamental particles that make up our universe, and the int...

IISER Pune has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) to jointly establish a Centre for Gravitational Physics and Astronomy (CGPA). This field has become a major active frontier of physical science and an attractive portal for ...

IISER Pune and IUCAA signed a Memorandum of Understanding for setting up a new Centre for Gravitational Physics and Astronomy. The news was covered by the Times of India and Indian Express. August 2, 2017 ...

PhD student Shishir Sankhyan's contribution in the discovery of a supercluster of galaxies, named Saraswati, was covered widely by the press. Indian Express; The Hindu; Hindustan Times, LiveMint; Huffington Post India; The Hindu Businessline; Sakal Times,; The Indian Wire; Phys.org. July 14, 2017. ...

Dr. Pinaki Talukdar, Associate Professor of Chemistry, won the Bronze Medal of Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI). The Indian Express and Hindustan Times reported. July 24, 2017. ...

Dr Pinaki Talukdar, Associate Professor of Chemistry at IISER Pune, has won the Bronze Medal of Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI). The CRSI is a professional body established in 1999 with an aim to facilitate and promote research and education in all branches of chemistry. It is a premier...

Harshini Tekur, PhD student in Physics at IISER Pune, has been selected for a Merit Prize at the Asian Scientist Writing Prize 2017 competition. Open to all across Asia, this science writing competition invites non-fiction articles of ~1500 words covering any scientific discipline. The 2017 competit...

Karishma Bansal, an IISER Pune alumnus, is part of a team of researchers that detected for the first time, two supermassive black holes orbiting each other, in a galaxy about 750 million light years away from Earth. Times of India reported. July 8, 2017 ...

Karishma Bansal, an IISER Pune alumnus, is part of a team of researchers that detected for the first time, two supermassive black holes orbiting each other, in a galaxy about 750 million light years away from Earth. She is also the lead author of the paper 'Constraining the Orbit of the Supermassive...

Dr Neelesh Dahanukar was involved in the discovery and classification of a new species of burrowing frog from Maharashtra. Hindustan Times covered the news. June 28, 2017. ...