• Invited to deliver the prestigious Pandit Govind Ballabh Pandit Memorial Lecture. GB Pandit Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development, Almora
• Received the Rajiv Gandhi Rastriya Ekta Samman 2007 award at the National Conference on Communal Harmony organized by the All India National Unity Conference, New Delhi 
• Sir Edward Mellanby Memorial Lecture, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow
• Invited to deliver the 1st Lecture of Excellence on New Frontiers in Biotechnology and Biodiversity at National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, Lucknow 
• Honorary D.Sc. degree from MJP Rohilkhand University
• 8th Dharma Vira Oration Award, Sir Gangaram Hospital, New Delhi 
• Invited to deliver the 18th Convocation Address, Kakatiya University, Warangal

Dr Ramesh K Aggarwal

• Member of the Indian Delegation for Indo-Finland Bilateral collaboration in the area of ‘Environmental Biotechnology and Bioresources’.
• Chairman of the Peer Review Committee for National Fund Project on Groundnut Genomics, ICAR, New Delhi (2007-2010). 
• Member, Accreditation Panel (DBT-Govt- of India) for the Accreditation of Test Laboratories and Certification of Tissue Culture Production Facilities under the National Certification System for Tissue Culture raised Plants (NCS-TCP), (2007). 

Dr Utpal Bhadra

• Selected as member, Wellcome Trust UK reviewers Panel 
• Visiting Professor , Institute of Human Genetics – CNRS Montpellier, France 
• Honorary Chairman of Scientific Advisory committee of multinational corporate, I-Brain Life Science, Cambridge, UK 

Dr Purnima Bhargava

• Elected Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad, India. 
• Elected Member, Guha Research Conference. 
  

Dr G R Chandak

• Awarded the Wellcome Trust Grant for the study entitled “Environmental and genetic determinants of obesity and diabetes in India”. 
• An Expert Medical Geneticist, the District Advisory Committee for implementation of Pre-conception and Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques Act. 
• Member Scientific Advisory Committee, National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad.
• Member, Advisory Committee, State Human Rights Commission, AP on Policy Initiatives on Women’s Health Publishing.
• Nodal scientist for CSIR Net-Work programme on: Diabetes mellitus-New drug discovery R&D, molecular mechanisms and genetic & epidemiological factors.
• Journal Reviewer, GUT, UK, BMC-series journals, UK and Tissue Antigens, USA
• Member Editorial Board of Journal of Genetics, India.
• Member, Advisory Committee, State Human Rights Commission, AP on Policy Initiatives on Women’s Health.
  
  

Dr Amitabha Chattopadhyay

• Selected for the J C Bose National Fellowship for the year2008
  Ranbaxy Research Award in Medical Sciences (Basic Research), Ranbaxy Foundation
• The Bires Chandra Guha Memorial Lecture award from the Indian National Science Academy.
• Adjunct Professor, the Special Centre for Molecular Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. 
• Editor, “Serotonin Receptors in Neurobiology” (2007), New Frontiers in Neuroscience series (series editors: Simon, S.A., and Nicolelis, M.A.L.), CRC Press.

Dr Jyotsna Dhawan

• Member, RAP-SAC of National Center for Cell Sciences, Pune. Vellore 
• Member, Steering Committee of SNAP - Stem Cell Network of Asia Pacific
• Member, Government Affairs Committee of International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR)
• Awarded an Indo-Australian Biotechnology Grant to study the epigenetic landscape of endogenous cardiac stem cells in collaboration with Rakesh Mishra (CCMB), Richard Harvey and Catherine Suter (Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Sydney). 

Dr Sandeep Goel

• Awarded PhD from Kyoto University, Japan. Dr Vijaya Gopal York. 
• Received DST research grant for a period of 3 years. 

Dr M M Idris

• Awarded Ph.D from Open University, Miton Keynes, UK. 

Dr Jerald Mahesh Kumar

• International award of the Japanese Association for Laboratory Animal Science for the year 2007. 

Dr N Nagesh 

• Reviewer of research papers, Proceedings of the Third IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics. (PRIB, 2008); Bioinorganic Chemistry and Application Journal and Current Analytical Chemistry Journal.

Dr M W Pandit

• Vigyan Vibhushan Quality Achievement Award2006 from CITD received from Governor of Andhra Pradesh. 
  

Dr Veena K Parnaik

• Elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences. 

Dr A S Sreedhar

• Awarded Post Doctoral Invitation Fellowship from Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japan. 
  

Dr B Raman

• Scopus Young Scientist Award for meritorious contributions in the field of Biological Sciences. 
  

Dr R Sankaranarayanan

• Endeavour Executive Award 2008 to do research at University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. 

Dr Ram Rup Sarkar

• Selected for the CSIR-DAAD Exchange of Scientists Programme-2008. 
• Committee Member for the DST, Govt. of India, constituted Vision and Measurement System Groups (2008). 

Dr Shailendra K Saxena

• U.S. CRDF Fellowship (Department of State, USA) to attend the Asia Conference on Laboratory Biosafety and Biosecurity, Bangkok, Thailand (April 17-19, 2007) 
• Elected Full Member of Sigma XI, The Scientific Research Society (USA).
• “BRVS-Vishes Rajbhasha Vishishtata Samman - 2007” awarded by Bharatiya Rajbhasha Vikas Sansthan, (India), for appreciable editing of “Jigyasa” scientific magazine and making science popular.
• International Pharmaceutical Industry Consultants (UK) recognized as International Opinion Leaders / Experts involved in the vaccination for Japanese Encephalitis. (Jan, 2007). 
  

Dr Yogendra Sharma

• Elected Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences. 

Dr S Shivaji

• Member, the First Indian Scientific Expedition to Arctic between August 4 to 16, 2007. 
• Selected to deliver Plenary Lectures at the 6th PNRA Meeting on Antarctic Biology: Critical Issues and Research Priorities in Italy and at the Second International Barcode of Life Conference in Taiwan. 

Dr Imran Siddiqi 

• Elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore. 
• A publication on ‘Gamete Formation Without Meiosis in Arabidopsis’ from his group is accepted in Nature 

Dr Sunit Kumar Singh

• Member, Editorial Board of the scientific journal Future Microbiology. 
• Visiting Faculty, Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University, Faizabad. 
• Visiting Scientist, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico, USA 
• Visiting Scientist, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA 
• Corresponding Editor of “International Journal of Infectious Diseases” (Elsevier Publication) 

Dr Ravi Sirdeshmuk

• Invited member, Research Council, Institute Of Cytology and Preventive Medicine, ICMR, Noida 
• Invited member, Program Advisory Committee, National Facility for Advanced Proteomics and Protein Research, IICB, Kolkatta 
• Visiting scientist, the National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda and the National Institute of Aging, NIH, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• Chaired Disease Proteomics Session, 6th HUPO World Congress, Seoul, South Korea. 

Dr Ramesh V Sonti

• Invited Speaker & Session Chairman, Second International Conference on Bacterial Blight of Rice, Nanjing, China. 

Dr V Srinivas

• Awarded the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Invitation Fellowship 

Dr K Thangaraj

• Member, Editorial Board of Human Biology. 

Dr Sunil Kumar Verma 

• Awarded PhD from University of Oxford, UK 

Mr K S Varadarajan 

• Best Lecture Note award, at a National Summer School on New Dimension to NMR: From Molecules to Human Behavior held in Gangtok. Awards and Honours received by the Research Students. 

Mr Faiz Ahmad 

• Ratna Phadke Award for Best Oral Presentation, National Symposium on Biophysics Biophysics in Medicine and Biology, Punjab University, Chandigarh. 

Ms Anshu Bharadwaj 

• Best Poster Award in the 9th International Meeting on Human Genome Variation and Complex Genome Analysis held in Barcelona, Spain.

Ms Rupa Bhattacharya

• Prof G P Talwar Gold Medal for Best Oral Presentation at ISSRF. 

Mr Sourav Haldar 

• Best poster award at the annual meeting of the Indian Biophysical Society held in New Delhi