Dr. Siddhesh Kamat, Assistant Professor in Biology at IISER Pune, has been awarded the ‘Young Scientist Medal’ of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi for 2019. INSA is a body of Indian scientists founded in 1935 for promotion of scientific knowledge in the country. One of their ...

IISER Pune faculty member Dr R Vaidhyanathan's work has been granted a US patent for the preparation of a covalent organic framework (COF) that can serve as an electrocatalyst to split water. Hydrogen and oxygen, the constitutent molecules of water, thus released, have vital industrial applicatio...

Self assembly of proteins into superstructures is of interest considering its implications in variety of applications such as gene delivery, vaccine design and diagnostics. Genetic engineering involving computational methods and rational design strategies have been employed to design protein superst...

Three winners of the prestigious Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF) have chosen to pursue their PhD at IISER Pune. Deccan Herald reported. July 22, 2019 ...

Prof. Satish Ogale and his collaborators' work on generation of electricity using mustard seeds was recently reported in Loksatta and Indian Express. July 13, 2019 ...

Loksatta reported that IISERs have been ranked twenty fourth in the world in a normalised ranking of top research institutions in the world published by Nature Index. July 11, 2019. ...

Three IISER Pune students are among those selected for the Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF). The list of selected students has been announced recently and is available at this link. The PMRF scheme is aimed at attracting the talent pool of the country to PhD programmes of Indian Institu...

IISER Pune along with NCL was one of the venues for the Grand Finale of Smart India Hackathon 2019 - Hardware Edition. Times of India1 , 2 reported on the inauguration of the event. July 9, 2019 ...

[caption id="attachment_1643" align="alignright" width="2001"] Graphic by Rafeeque Mavoor[/caption] On any given day you get to work, park your vehicle, meet a colleague, surprise an old friend or taste vada pav for the first time. Only some of these experiences will become memories that will las...

A team of IISER Pune students has won a grant of Rs. 10 lakh from DBT for designing and developing a bio-sensor based tool to detect presence of lead in river water. This project will be a part of the international Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) competition held each year. Indian Express an...

Prof. Jayant Udgaonkar, (Director, IISER Pune) was interviewed on quality of scientific research and education in India and ways of improving it by Hindustan Times. June 21, 2019 ...

Through an industry-academia partnership, IISER Pune would be setting up a Centre of Excellence in Flow Cytometry with support from BD Life Sciences-Biosciences, a segment of Becton, Dickinson and Company. The news was reported by BioSpectrum India and Express Healthcare. June 10, 2019 ...

Dr. Thomas Pucadyil runs the Reconstitution Biology lab in IISER Pune. His research is based on a novel approach to address questions in membrane biology that he pioneered during his postdoctoral work. His techniques have found great success, as evidenced by the many accolades he has received, the m...

Pune Mirror reported on Dr. Anand Krishnan and his team's project for understanding roosting patterns and diversity of bats, with an objective to create safe zones for conservation of these creatures. May 20, 2019. ...

CoESME at IISER Pune, through its Science Activity Centre had organised a Pre-workshop for State Teachers' Science Congress in association with Marathi Vidnyan Parishad. Hindustan Times reported. May 14, 2019. ...

Economic Times reported on a new species of snake-head fish discovered in Kerala. Dr. Neelesh Dahanukar was a member of the team involved in this discovery. May 11, 2019. ...

IISER Pune is part of a consortium involved in an ambitious new project called MANAV-Human Atlas launched by Department of Biotechnology (DBT) for mapping the human body using macro- and micro-level information about organs, tissues, cells, etc. Economic Times Tech, Indian Express 1 & Indian Expres...

The Manav Human Atlas project, a collaboration between IISER Pune, Persistent Systems, and the National Centre for Cell Science, was launched on May 10, 2019 by the DBT Secretary Dr. Renu Swarup. Funded by the Department of Biotechnology, this project aims to construct a comprehensive map of the...

Typically, the number of individuals in a population is a good estimate of whether or not bacteria can evolve under certain conditions. Larger populations carry more biological variation and adapt faster to new environments. This primarily happens as at least some of the population may cope with the...

Prof. Shyam Rai has been selected to receive the Professor Naha Memorial Medal for 2019 by the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi. The Medal was established in 1996 from an endowment by the family members of Professor Naha to commemorate the memory of late Professor Kshitindramohan...