Links to some of the news articles that have appeared in the media on this work: Hindustan Times, Indian Express,  Navrashtra, Navbharat, Pudhari, Times of India, Pune Pulse, Free Press Journal The research paper has appeared on the Cover Page of the Feb 10, 2026 issue and covered in a Comment...

Prof. Siddhesh Kamat from the Department of Biology has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (RSB), UK, with effect from January 1, 2026. The Royal Society of Biology, headquartered in the United Kingdom, is a leading professional body representing the biological sciences. Elect...

Prof. Richa Rikhy has been awarded the prestigious Anne McLaren Award for Outstanding Women in Developmental Biology by the International Society of Differentiation. The Anne McLaren Award is named after renowned geneticist and reproductive biologist Prof. Dame Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren.  P...

A new study published in the British Ecological Society’s journal People and Nature brings together two otherwise disparate disciplines in an effort to conserve biodiversity. IISER Pune PhD student Digvijay Patil collaborated with ecologist Dr. Ashish Nerlekar to study the savanna grasslands o...

Dr. Krishanpal Karmodiya from the Department of Biology at IISER Pune has been honoured with ‘Dr. B.N. Singh Memorial Oration Award’ by the Indian Society for Parasitology (ISP). The award was given to Dr. Karmodiya at the 33rd National Congress of Parasitology on Recent Advances in Para...

Prof. Jayant Udgaonkar, Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Biology and Former Director of IISER Pune, has been awarded the prestigious National Science Chair of the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), Government of India. The National Science Chair is one of the highe...

In a study published in the journal Science Advances, Dr. Nixon Abraham’s group from the Biology Department of IISER Pune showed in a mouse model that the nose can sense wind speed in addition to smells, and that chemical and mechanical inputs together constitute the olfactory (sense of smell)...

Two faculty members from IISER Pune Dr. Gayathri Pananghat (Biology Department) and Prof. S.G. Srivatsan (Chemistry Department) have been elected as Fellows of the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) based in Prayagraj. Founded in 1930, NASI is the oldest science academy in India and support...

Two faculty members from IISER Pune Prof. Sujit K. Ghosh (Professor, Chemistry Department) and Prof. Kalika Prasad (Professor, Biology Department) have been elected as Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi for the year 2025. A total of 78 fellows have been newly elected a...

Dr. Siddhesh S. Kamat from the Department of Biology has been conferred upon with the prestigious Tarun Tejankit Award for the year 2025.  Instituted by Loksatta, the Marathi daily of the Indian Express Group, the Tarun Tejankit Award is conferred annually to individuals who have made outstand...

Members from Prof. Chaitanya Athale’s research group from IISER Pune’s Department of Biology put up a stall at the Indian Science Fest 2025 held from 11-12 Jan 2025 at Fergusson College in Pune. Here, PhD student Tanvi Kale and group leader Chaitanya A. Athale share their excitement abou...

Dr. Krishanpal Karmodiya, a faculty member in the Department of Biology at IISER Pune, is among those selected for the prestigious EMBO Global Investigator Network.  The EMBO Global Investigator Network supports young group leaders in Chile, India, Singapore and Taiwan, and, in a pilot project...

Dr. Siddhesh Kamat, a faculty member in the Department of Biology at IISER Pune, has been awarded the 2024 Infosys Prize in the Life Sciences category. The announcement was made today by the Infosys Science Foundation at an event in Bengaluru. The award citation to Dr. Kamat reads as follows: The I...

A new industry-academia collaboration initiative, the Centre for Intelligent Solutions, was inaugurated  during the 2024 Industry Conclave event that took place on September 14, 2024. Since the event brought together professionals from the industry and IISER Pune faculty, postdocs, and students...

Dr. Kalika Prasad from the Department of Biology has been elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI). Founded in 1930, NASI is the oldest science academy in India and supports scientific excellence across all disciplines. Election as a Fellow of NASI is a prestigious hono...

Dr. Siddhesh Kamat, a faculty member in the Department of Biology at IISER Pune, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, U.K.  A professional body for chemical scientists and one of the oldest chemical societies in the world, the Royal Society of Chemistry supports and ...

Prof. Anjan Banerjee from the Department of Biology and Prof. Pinaki Talukdar from the Department of Chemistry have been elected as Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi. A total of 63 fellows have been newly elected as Fellows this year from across various science instit...

Prof. Jayant B. Udgaonkar from the Department of Biology is among those selected for the Vigyan Shri Award for the year 2024 announced here yesterday. This is part of the new Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar awards initiated by the Government of India to honour exceptional contributions to the fields of sc...

In a recent paper published in the journal ACS Omega, Prof. Sudha Rajamani’s group explored how life may have originated on early Earth by testing if a nucleotide analogue made of barbituric acid could be used to make RNA. What they found prompted them to propose that barbituric acid could hav...

Ignite Life Science Foundation, with support from IndianOil Corporation and Teekays Foundation, funded the acquisition of a multi-mode plate reader to enable high throughput research at IISER Pune.   Multi-mode plate readers are used in various fields such as biochemistry, molecular biolo...