Honours and Awards

Dr Debdut Naskar, Principal Investigator

1. DST Inspire faculty award (2017) by DST Inspire, Govt. of India

2. SERB National Postodoctoral Fellowship award (2017), SERB, Govt.of India

3. DBT-Research associate-1 Fellowsip award (2016), DBT, Govt. of India

4. Post Doctoral Research fellowsip from University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

 

Arindam Sain

1.  Secured FIRST PRIZE in paper presentation category at National Bioengineering Conference 2022 organized by Biotechnology and Medical Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela on 6-7th January 2022.

Topic: Apigenin as phytomedicine in colon cancer: target identification and validation.

2.  Secured SECOND PRIZE in the National Level Biotechnology Symposium – SymBiot’21 held on 16th October 2021,at Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal.

Topic: Targeting Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase 1B with Sweet Potato (Ipomoea batatas) derived
Compounds in Obesity-linked Colon Cancer

3. Secured FIRST PRIZE in paper presentation category at Bioengineering conference 2020 organized by Biotechnology and Medical Engineering Department, National Institute ofT echnology, Rourkela.

Topic: Exploring the potential of Apigenin as a dual PI3K/mTOR inhibitor to target PIK3CA mutant colorectal cancer: an in-silico analysis.

4. Received International Travel Support (ITS) grant, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB),
Department of Science & Technology (DST), India, 2023 and presented his work at XXXI International conference on polyphenols (ICP-2023) held in Nantes, France, 2023. Topic of presentation: Apigenin-tankyrase 1 interaction revealed
as a novel therapeutic approach in colorectal cancer.

5. Presented a conference paper in 5th Regional Science Congress (Southern region) held in 2023 and received outstanding paper award.

Title of the paper: Heat shock protein 90 alpha family class A member 1 (HSP90AA1) Revealed as a Plausible Target of Apigenin in Colon Cancer

 

Sarbajit Chakraborty

1. Presented a conference paper in 4th Regional Science Congress (Southern region) held on December, 2019;

Title of the paper: A study to investigate the cross talk among molecular
pathways to identify key genes in gastrointestinal disease by
bioinformatics approach using Inflammatory Bowel Disorder
as a model

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Thirukumaran Kandaswamy

1. Selected for oral presentation and presented paper in International conference on Drug Discovery 2020 held in Hyderabad, 2020.

Title of the paper: 

Response elements based in-silico approach to design RNA aptamer against the DNA binding domain

of nuclear receptors, special reference to glucocorticoid receptor

2. Awarded best poster for poster presentation in STEM 2020 held at MAKAUT, WB in 2020

Title of the paper: 

A novel in-silico approach to design RNA aptamer against DNA

binding domain of the glucocorticoid receptor.

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Prerna Singh

Secured 1st position in oral presentation category in National Seminar on "Trends in Biomedical Research: Advances and Challenges"
from 29th to 30th January 2024
organized by:
Central Ayurveda Research Institute, Kolkata
CCRAS, Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India

Topic: Exploring phytochemicals and novel synthetic compounds as therapeutic agents to overcome chemoresistance in colorectal cancer

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Bhargav Simpi

Presented a conference paper in national seminar "Trends in Biomedical Research: Advances and Challenges"from 29th to 30th January 2024

organized by: Central Ayurveda Research Institute, Kolkata CCRAS, Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India

​Topic: Deciphering the anti-colon cancer role of Pinoresinol by target identification and in vitro validation

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