Through a generous endowment from Bajaj Auto Ltd., a hostel for women research scholars at IISER Pune was announced in 2017. The construction of this multi-storied building has now been completed and has been opened to research scholars. The inauguration ceremony of this Hall of Residence was held ...

Dr. Siddhesh Kamat won the Merck Young Scientist Award 2019, along with researchers from NCL Pune; IGIB New Delhi; IIT Kanpur, etc. The Print, Hindu Business Line; reported the news. January 9, 2020 ...

IISER Pune feature in Nature Index's "Top 50 Young Universities in Chemistry" list, along with IISER Bhopal, IIT Guwahati and five other Indian institutions.  The Telegraph; NDTV.com published the news. January 8, 2020 ...

Dr. Siddhesh Kamat (Assistant Professor in Biology at IISER Pune) has received this year’s Merck Young Scientist Award. This award recognises excellence in research among scientists with less than 10 years of post-PhD experience and considers applications from all research/academic institutions acr...

IISER Pune had organised the 5th Asia Pacific Drosophila Research Conference (APDRC5) and the Indian Drosophila Research Conference from January 6-10, 2020. Many eminent scientists from the Asia-Pacific region and two Nobel Laureates attended the meeting. Hindustan Times; The Hindu; Times of India;...

Dr. Nirmalya Ballav and his group's research on developing a modified version of graphene which can be produced at substantially lower costs was reported by Pune Mirror  and  Inc42. December 17, 2019 ...

Dr. M. S. Madhusudhan and group's work on identifying drug targets for Nipah virus was reported by Hindu Business Line LiveMint, and Research Matters. December 15, 2019 ...

Dr Saikrishnan Kayarat, Associate Professor in Biology at IISER Pune, has won Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India’s S. Ramachandran National Bioscience Award for Career Development for the year 2019. The award is given each year by the DBT to scientists below 45 years of age engaged...

Dr. S. G. Srivatsan received CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI) award. Indus Dictum reported November 25, 2019 ...

An advance in vivo imaging facility supported by Perkin Elmer was opened at IISER Pune. BioSpectrum and Business Wire reported. November 21, 2019 ...

On occasion of Children's Day, IISER Pune had organised an open science exhibition for students and citizens. Several models and hands-on experiments were displayed, and there were talks, a drawing competition and other activities. The exhibition received a huge response, and was reported by Sakal ...

Dr. Siddhesh Kamat was selected as a European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) Young Investigator. Research Matters reported the news. November 15, 2019 ...

Dr. Siddhesh Kamat, Assistant Professor in Biology at IISER Pune, has been selected as an ‘European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)’s Young Investigator for four years starting January 2020. He is one of 27 life scientists from across the globe chosen for this award. EMBO is an organization t...

Antarctica, with an annual average temperature anywhere between minus ten to minus sixty, is one of the most inhospitable places on the Earth. However, this was not the case forty million years ago; a mild climate had prevailed there. Towards the end of the Late Eocene, approximately 33.7 million ye...

IISER Pune was ranked 20th by Nature Index Rankings in the list of top 50 'young' institutions in the world. The Print reported. October 30, 2019 ...

IISER Pune has been ranked twentieth in a list of top Young Universities in the world published by the prestigious Nature Index. The Index classifies institutions younger than fifty years in this category. Of the ten Indian institutes which have made it to the top 100 Young Universities list, IISER ...

The Indian Express interviewed IISER Pune Director, Prof. Jayant Udgaonkar about the institute's philosophy, activities, its growth since inception, and upcoming initiatives. October 28, 2019 ...

The Hindu, Indus Dictum, and Hindu Business Line covered Dr. Harinath Chakrapani and his group's work on finding novel target proteins for potential drugs against antibiotic-resistant strains of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus. October 13, 2019. ...

Swapna Joshi, PhD student in Humanities and Social Sciences led a heritage walk about the woodwork and paintings in old Maratha architecture and monuments. Pune Mirror and Indian Express reported. October 7, 2019 ...

Dr. Sujit Ghosh and team's work on a building a photocatalyst to degrade organic pollutants using a stabilised form of the mineral perovskite was reported by The Hindu. October 5, 2019. ...