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DNA Repair & Cancer Research Laboratory
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“Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize”, 2013 for Biological Sciences.
“National Bioscience Award”, 2013 Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi.
4th Kobayashi Foundation Award (KFA), 2016 for distinguished research achievements in the field of cancer chemotherapy in Asian countries.
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Indian Society for Cell Biology (ISCB), S. P. RAY Chaudhuri Lecture Award for year 2022.
U.T Tithin Raj award 2017 for Application Oriented Innovations in cancer research.
Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) SRC Outstanding Researcher Award-2014.
Federation of Asian and Oceanian Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (FAOBMB) Award Lecture-2015, CCMB, Hyderabad.
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“National Academy of Science, India (NASI)-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award-2015”, for Application Oriented Innovations in Biological Sciences.
“Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI) Award 2014 for Excellence in Drug Research under Biological Sciences”.
Leukemia Research Foundation (USA) award 2010.
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Lady Tata Memorial Trust (London) International Award for Leukemia Research 2007.
Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies, USA, Travel Award, 2004
Editor, FEBS Journal, UK.
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Srivastava et al, Cell, December 21, 2012.
Giri Memorial Award for Best PhD Thesis in the Biochemistry Department, 2012.
Giri Memorial Award for Best PhD Thesis in the Biochemistry Department, 2014.
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Mridula Nambiar
Ranbaxy Science Scholar Award, 2008.
Supriya Vartak
Ranbaxy Science Scholar Award, 2017.
Sheetal Sharma
Indian Society of Radiation Biology award for Best PhD Thesis in India, 2014
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Supriya Vartak
Indian Society of Radiation Biology award for Best PhD Thesis in India, 2017
Sheetal Sharma
Perumal Award for the Best PhD Student in the Biochemistry Department, 2009
Nishana M
Perumal Award for the Best PhD Student in the Biochemistry Department, 2011
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Kohal Das
Perumal Award for the Best PhD Student in the Biochemistry Department, 2013
Dipayan Ghosh
Perumal Award for the Best PhD Student in the Biochemistry Department, 2017
Kishore K Chiruvella
DAE-BRNS Best Poster Award, BRNS Life Science Symposia, BARC, Mumbai, 2008
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Kishore K. Chiruvella "Methyl Angolensate, an Indian Natural Compound from Callus of Soymidafebrifuga Induces Apoptosis in Cancer Cells", WCC Best Poster Award in 1st World Congress on Cancer, January 12-14, 2009, Institute of Holistic Medicine, Kottayam, Kerala.
Abani Kanta Naik, "Cytosine determine RAG induced break on altered DNA structures: Implication for genomic instability", SBC(I) Best Poster Award at the 78th Annual Meeting of Society of Biological Chemists (India), Oct 30- Nov 1, 2009, NCCS, Pune, India.
MridulaNambiar, Kavitha C.V., "Novel Derivatives of Spirohydantoin Induce Growth Inhibition and Apoptosis in Leukemia Cells" 2nd Best Poster Award in 1st world congress on cancer, January 12-14, 2009, Institute of Holistic Medicine, Kottayam, Kerala.
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Nishana M., "RAG cleavage at non-B DNA structures is controlled by proximity of a V(D)J recombination nonamer: Implications in genomic instability", "RambhauKulkarni Award for The IACR Best Poster Presentation by Young Scientist", 30th Annual Convention of Indian Association of Cancer Research, Feb 6-9, 2011 held at Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India.
Nishana M., "RAG cleavage at non-B DNA structures is controlled by proximity of a V(D)J nonamer: Implications in genomic instability." ICABS Best Poster Award "International Conference on Advances in Biological Sciences", March 15-17, 2012, Kannur University, Kerala, India.
Mrinal Srivastava, SBC(I) Oral Presenation Award, “Identification of a Potential Inhibitor of NHEJ: Implications in DNA Repair, Apoptosis and Cancer” at the 81st Annual Meeting of Society of Biological Chemists (India), Nov 8- Nov 11, 2012 held at Science City, Kolkata, India.
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Ranganatha S. R., "Extracts of Indian Strawberry (Fragariaxananassa) Inhibit Cancer Cell Proliferation in vitro and in vivo and Enhance Survival of Mice Bearing Tumors" ISCDDP Best Poster Award in the "International Symposium on Challenges in Drug Discovery Programme" Feb 16-17,2011, Karnataka State Open University, Mysore, India.
Nishana M., “RAG cleavage at non-B DNA structures is controlled by proximity of a V(D)J recombination nonamer: implications in genomic instability” won the best poster presentation award "82nd Annual Meeting of Society of Biological Chemists, India and International conference on genomes: Mechanism and function", Dec 2-5, 2013, University of Hyderabad.
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Deepthi R., "Role of nonamer binding domain and central domain of RAG1 in its sequence and structure specific activity", AICB Best Poster Award, XXXVII all India cell biology conference on cell dynamics and cell fate, Dec 22-24, 2013, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
Monica Pandey, Inhibition of DNA End Joining as a Strategy to Induce Apoptosis in Cancer Cell Lines and Abrogation of Tumor Progression in Mice, Best Poster Presentation in Indian Association for Cancer Research (IACR) & International Symposium on "Infection & Cancer", A.C.B.R., Delhi, Feb 2013.
Mrinal Srivastava, 2nd Best Young Scientist Award, oral presentation, “Identification of a Potential Inhibitor of NHEJ: Implications in DNA Repair, Apoptosis and Cancer” in Biosangam 2013, held at MNNIT, Allahabad.
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Monica Pandey, best Oral Presentation Award “Inhibition of DNA End Joining as a Strategy to Induce Apoptosis in Cancer Cell Lines and Abrogation of Tumor Progression in Mice,” in National Seminar on Chemical Biology, Department of PG Studies in chemistry, Government Science College, Haasan, March 2013.
Kohal Das, SBC(I) Best Student Talk Award, “Transcription dependent R-loop formation at the c-MYC locus can explain mechanism of t(8;14) translocation in Burkitt’s Lymphoma” best student's oral presentation award during the "83rd Annual Meeting of Society of Biological Chemists, India and Symposium on Evolution: Molecules to Life", Dec 18th -21st, 2014 held at KIIT, Odisha, India.
Saniya M Javadekar, Best Poster Award, “Formation of non-B DNA structures at BCL2 MBR and BCL6 contribute towards fragility in chromosomal translocations in nonHodgkin's lymphoma”, "12th winter symposium, CMC Vellore”, Feb 10-12, 2014, CMC, Vellore, India.
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Monica Pandey, 2nd Best Oral Presentation Award, “Evaluating the Binding Properties of NHEJ Proteins: Sequence preferences of DNA Ligase IV and KU70/80”, Carcinogenesis Conference, ACTREC, Mumbai, Maharashtra.
Rupa kumari, “Identification of Novel miRNAs that regulate RAG1 and its impact on V(D)J recombination” SBC(I) Best Poster Presentation Award during the 14th FOABMB CONGRESS & 84th ANNUAL MEETING OF SBC (I), Nov 24-30, 2015 held at CCMB, Hyderabad, India.
Deepthi Raveendran, “Biochemical Characterization of Nonamer Binding Domain of RAG1 Reveals its Thymine Preference with Respect to length and position” SBC(I) Best Poster Presentation Award during the 14th FOABMB Congress & 84th Annual Meeting of SBC (I), Nov 24-30, 2015 held at CCMB, Hyderabad, India.
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Supriya Vartak, “Role of G4 DNA in Differential Radio-protection of the Genome” ICRR-HHE 2016 Best Oral Presentation Award during the International Conference on Radiation Research: Impact on Human Health and Environment (ICRR-HHE-2016) & First Biennial Meeting of Society for Radiation Research (SRR), February 11-13, 2016 held at BARC, Mumbai, India.
Shivangi Sharma, Best Poster Presentation Award, “BCL2 specific inhibitor, Disarib and its derivatives as a potent agent“, Conference on Nextgen Genomics, Biology, Bioinformatics and Technologies Conference, September 30- October 2, 2018 held at Jaipur, Rajasthan.
Kohal Das, Best Poster Presentation Award, “Transcription dependent R-loop formation at the c-MYC locus can explain mechanism of t(8;14) translocation in Burkitt’s Lymphoma“, Indo-US conference on Transcription, Chromatin structure, DNA repair and Genomic Instability”, March 6-10, 2018, Bangalore, Karnataka.
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Shivangi Sharma, Best Oral Presentation Award, BCL2 specific inhibitor, Disarib and its derivatives as a potent Cancer therapeutic agent”. Conference on Drug Discovery and translational medicine (DDTM-2019), March 14-16, 2019, Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu.
Humaira Siddiqua, Sumedha Dahal, Best Oral Presentation Award, “A novel mechanism of Endonuclease G mediated deletions in human Mitochondrial Genome“, Conference on Basic and advanced translational Immunology (BATI-2020), March 5-7, 2020, Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod, Kerala.
Shivangi Sharma and Sathees C. Raghavan “BCL2 specific inhibitor- Disarib, a step towards its preclinical trial“. Won the Best Presentation Award in the Conference on International Conference On Nanomaterials in Biology, February 2-5, 2022 held at the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Rajasthan.
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Susmita Kumari and Sathees C. Raghavan “Elucidating the effect of Caffeine on NHEJ repair pathway”. Won the Best Presentation Award in 5th Asian Congress of Radiation Research (ACRR), Mumbai, 17-20 November, 2022 organized by Society for Radiation Research.
Humaira Siddiqua, Shivangi Sharma, Bibha Choudhary, and Sathees C. Raghavan “Identification of novel BCL2 specific inhibitor, Disarib and a step towards its preclinical trial. Won the 2nd Best Oral Presentation Award in the Conference on BSBE Winter symposium, December 16-18, 2022 held at Indian Institute of technology, Kanpur, UP.
Ujjayinee Ray has been awarded the Dr. K. V. Rao Scientific Society Research Award for the year 2020-2021
Urbi Roy has been awarded the Prof. Joseph D Padayatty Memorial Award for the year 2021
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