Fellowships/Scholarships
2021 – 2026 Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship, Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India
2021 Emerging Leaders Scholarship, CLOVES Syndrome Community of Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, to attend International Scientific Meeting for PIK3CA Related Conditions
2007 – 2012 PhD Research Scholarship, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
2007 National Eligibility Test (NET) for Junior Research Fellowship in subject Life Sciences under the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR-JRF) fellowship scheme, India, qualified
2007 Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), India, qualified
2006 Summer Research Fellowship Programme (SRFP), Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), India
2003 Summer visiting student-fellowship, Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS), India
Awards/Honours
2023 Ben Barres Spotlight Award (runner-up), by eLife community, USA
2022 Honoured to receive International Donation for Research in Rare Diseases, from M-CM Network, New York, USA
2020 Top 20 Winner of #StemCellfie Contest 2020, STEMCELL Technologies Inc., Canada
2017 Professional Development Award, Seattle Children’s Research Staff Development Committee, Seattle, USA
2016 ISDN 2016 Travel Award, 21st Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience (ISDN), Antibes-Juan les Pins, France
2014 Best Poster Award, Joint Meeting of the 20th Biennial Meeting of the ISDN and the 5th Annual NeuroDevNet Brain Development Conference, Montreal, Canada
2012 International Travel Support/Grant (DBT-CTEP), Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India, to present at EMBO conference, Heidelberg, Germany
2012 Best Poster Award, 19th Biennial Meeting of the ISDN, Mumbai, India
2005 University Rank certificate (4th in BSc, Zoology Honours), University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
