Two teams of undergraduate students from IISER Pune participated in the 2022 iGEM synthetic biology competition this year. Both the teams have won gold medals, as announced during iGEM’s Grand Jamboree event held during October 26-28, 2022 in Paris.  The teams had worked on two separate ...

A team of 12 students from IISER Pune has won a gold medal at the 2021 iGEM synthetic biology competition. The results were announced in during iGEM’s Annual Jamboree event held during November 4-14, 2021. As part of their participation in this competition, the team worked over the last few m...

A fire broke out today in a chemistry laboratory of the Main Building of IISER Pune on the second floor around 12 noon. By around 2:30 pm, the fire was brought under control. We thank fire brigades from Pune Municipal Corporation, Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation, and DRDO's High Energy Materi...

IISER Pune is ranked in the top 5.7% universities worldwide by the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR). The 2021-22 edition of CWUR’s Global 2000 List ranked IISER Pune 1124 in the world out of 19,788 universities worldwide. The list also ranks IISER Pune at 22 nationally and at 330 i...

A team of 14 students from IISER Pune who competed at the 2020 international Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) contest, have won a gold medal at the International Giant Jamboree held virtually during November 13-22, 2020. Close to 250 teams participated in the competition internationally, whi...

Three scientists at IISER Pune, Dr. Angshuman Nag (Associate Professor, Chemistry), Dr. Anup Biswas (Associate Professor, Mathematics) and Dr. Rejish Nath (Associate Professor, Physics) are among those selected for the Department of Science and Technology (DST)’s Swarnajayanti Fellowships for 2019...

Nine IISER Pune students are among those selected for this year's Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF).   The PMRF scheme is aimed at attracting the talent pool of the country to PhD programmes of Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Indian Institutes of Science Education & Research (IISERs)...

Prof. Thomas Pucadyil (Chair, Biology, IISER Pune) has been elected into the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) while Dr. G. J. Sreejith (Assistant Professor, Physics) has won the INSA Young Scientist Medal for 2020, along with Dr. Shradda Karve, a former PhD student at the institute. I...

IISER Pune together with Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU), Pune, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), Faridabad and Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore and the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) undertook an epidemiological and serological survey of selected hig...

Prof. Harinath Chakrapani, Professor of Chemistry at IISER Pune, has won the Bronze Medal of Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI). [caption id="attachment_1827" align="alignright" width="213"] Prof. Harinath Chakrapani[/caption] CRSI is a is a premier professional chemical society of Indi...

While it is well-recognised that expanding testing capacity is a critical element in the management of the COVID-19 pandemic, testing is a logistically and technically formidable task for a large population such as ours. Research institutions have the infrastructure and technical know-how required f...

Prof. S G Srivatsan, Professor in Chemistry at IISER Pune, has won National Prize for Research on Chemistry of Peptides and Nucleic Acids. The award is given by Prof. C.N.R. Rao Education foundation to scientists below 55 years of age. This award recognises Prof. Srivatsan's work carried out ...

IISER Pune researchers are involved in a multi-institutional effort to produce open-source computer-aided-designs for a mechanical ventilator that is currently in use in hospitals. This work is being carried out in collaboration with Capt. (Retd.) Rustom Bharucha from Bharucha Instrumentation and Co...

Dr. Siddhesh Kamat (Assistant Professor in Biology at IISER Pune) has received this year’s Merck Young Scientist Award. This award recognises excellence in research among scientists with less than 10 years of post-PhD experience and considers applications from all research/academic institutions acr...

Dr Saikrishnan Kayarat, Associate Professor in Biology at IISER Pune, has won Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India’s S. Ramachandran National Bioscience Award for Career Development for the year 2019. The award is given each year by the DBT to scientists below 45 years of age engaged...

Dr. Siddhesh Kamat, Assistant Professor in Biology at IISER Pune, has been selected as an ‘European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)’s Young Investigator for four years starting January 2020. He is one of 27 life scientists from across the globe chosen for this award. EMBO is an organization t...

IISER Pune has been ranked twentieth in a list of top Young Universities in the world published by the prestigious Nature Index. The Index classifies institutions younger than fifty years in this category. Of the ten Indian institutes which have made it to the top 100 Young Universities list, IISER ...

Dr. Sujit K. Ghosh and Dr. Angshuman Nag have both been chosen to receive the Materials Research Society of India (MRSI)’s Medals for 2020. The Medals will be presented during the Annual General Meeting of MRSI to be held in Kolkata during February 2020. As recipients of this medal, the awardee...

Dr Saikrishnan Kayarat, Associate Professor in Biology at IISER Pune, has been selected for CSIR's Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in the area of Biological Sciences for the year 2019. Dr Kayarat is one of the two winners of the Prize this year in the Biological Sciences discipline. A total of 12 s...

Dr. S. G. Srivatsan (Associate Professor, Chemistry) has been chosen to receive the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI)’s Bronze Medal for 2020. The CRSI, a premier professional chemical society of India, was established in 1999 with an objective to facilitate and promote research & educati...