March 2024: Special Jury Award for our work on Natamycin -CPP Conjugate against fungal keratitis -presented by our collaborator Dr Sushmita Shah at LVPEI-AIOS EyeInvent Hackathon, Hyderabad, India

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February 2023: Archana Chugh listed powerful woman in intellectual property India for the second time by World Intellectual Property Forum at WIPF 2023, Bengaluru, India

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March, 2022: Archana Chugh and Prasanjeet Kaur featured in UNESCO flagship publication ' A Braided River: The Universe of Indian Women in Science' launched on March 07, 2022 at UNESCO House, New Delhi. 

The published book/report and other associated videos can be downloaded from the following UNSECO link:

https://en.unesco.org/news/unesco-showcases-universe-indian-women-science-0

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March, 2022: Archana Chugh listed among the 75 Indian Women in the book- She Is: 75 Women in STEAM. 

Honouring 75 women in STEAM in India as part of #AzadiKaAmritMahotsav, The announcement made by Principal Scientific Adviser to GOI Prof. K. VijayRaghavan & His Excellency British High Commissioner Mr Alex Ellis (March 3, 2022).

 

February, 2022: Congratulations to Aditi Arora for winning presentation award for - Novel Ocular targeting Cell Penetrating Peptide for site specific drug delivery. In: 23rd INDO US Flow Cytometry Online Worksop, Jan 27 - Feb 1.

 

October, 2021: Congratulations to Sujithra Shankar for winning Best Paper Award   for - Novel Corneal Targeting Cell Penetrating Peptide for Management of Corneal Diseases and Disorders In: 27th Annual Meeting of the Indian Eye Research Group (IERG or ARVO, India Chapter), Oct 7-10, 2021.

 

July, 2021 : Press Release of  work on developing novel antifungal strategy against fungal keratitis

 

 

https://home.iitd.ac.in/show.php?id=25&in_sections=Press

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Video:

(English): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9QfFt5AqGM

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(Hindi): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IIXkbfiOzE

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May, 2021: Archana Chugh  listed among the Powerful Women in IP India 2021 by WIPF.

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March, 2019: Congratulations to Sujithra Shankar for winning Best Paper Presentation Award for - Novel Ocular targeting Cell Penetrating Peptide for site specific drug delivery. In: 20th INDO US Flow Cytometry Symposium and Workshop on "Applications of Flow Cytometry in Biotechnology", IIT Guwahati, March 13-16, 2019.

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September, 2019: Congratulations to Pankuri Narula for the publication of  a short article  in the online magazine "The Cancer Researcher" by EACR.

 

September, 2019: Congratulations to Pankhuri Narula for CSIR foreign travel grant and travel bursary from EACR to attend worldwide cancer research meeting at University of Cambridge, UK.

 

August, 2019: Congratulations to Pankhuri Narula for DBT-CTEP travel grant to attend worldwide cancer research meeting at University of Cambridge, UK.

 

February, 2019: Congratulations to Vivek Kumar for the award of Carl Storm International Diversity Fellowship from GRC for oral presentation on Antimicrobial peptides at Lucca, Italy.

 

October, 2018: Congratulations to Pankhuri Narula for the award of Best Oral Presentation in 11th Annual Conference and workshop on Flow Cytometry organized by The Cytometry Society India at AIIMS, New Delhi.

 

October, 2018: Work titled 'Clinical efficacy of novel antifungal in an experimental animal model of Fusarium spp keratitis' was awarded the Best Paper award by the Maharashtra Ophthalmological Society at its 38th Annual Conference.

 

August, 2018: Congratulations to MS(R) student Saiguru S. for the award of DAAD Fellowship.

 

June, 2018: Article published in science magazine Research Matters - "What makes some varieties of rice resistant to  drought?" based on work of Anupama Anupama.

 

February, 2018: Article published in science magazine Research Matters - "Spider venom-A novel weapon against bacteria" based on work of Deepthi P. Budagavi.

 

December, 2014: Best Paper Award to Shah SG, Chugh A and Jain A: Cell penetrating peptides as efficient nanocarriers for antifungal drug molecule, natamycin, for the management of fungal keratitis. In: Keracon 2014, Annual Conference of the Cornea Society of India, Mahabalipuram, Chennai,India.

 

October, 2014: Dr. MC Luthra Gold Medal for Best free paper awarded to Shah SG, Chugh A and Jain A. Cell penetrating peptides as efficient nanocarriers for antifungal drug molecule, natamycin, for the management of fungal keratitis. In: Uttara Eyecon, Annual Conference of the Uttarakhand State Ophthalmological Society, Mussoorie, India.

 

2010: Work on Synthetic Biology ( Saukshmya T and Chugh A, 2010, J Com Biotech 16(2):135–158) cited in French Parliament OSTA study on Synthetic Biology.