AWARDS

  • Grand Challenges Exploration from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2015
  • Lockheed Martin India Innovation award 2015
  • CDRI Award for Excellence in Drug Research 2015
  • NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award for Biological Sciences, 2014
  • Recognised as one of India’s most inspiring women engineers and scientists, 2014 by Engineering Watch India
  • National Award for Women Bioscientists,  2012
  • Recipient of Grand Challenges Exploration from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2011
  • Gifted with a qNano from Izon Ltd, a New Zealand company in recognition of drug delivery research, 2011
  • Indo-American Frontiers of Engineering Award, 2010
  • Felicitation Award by Society for Cancer Research and Communication for research achievements, 2008.
  • AICTE Career Young Teacher Award 2005-2006
  • Young Researcher Grant Award from the International Foundation for Science, Sweden 2004
  • Young Scientist Award in Life Sciences from the Department of Atomic Energy, India 2004
  • Young Scientist Award from the Science and Engineering Research Council, Department of Science & Technology, India 2003
  • MAHE Award, XIVth National Conference on Biomaterials and Artificial Organs, Mumbai 2003
  • Sumant Moolgaonkar Memorial Award, for research on lung surfactants, 1998.
  • National Talent Search Scholarship (NTS) 1988-1996