National Bioscience Award for Career Development


The National Bio-science Award for Career Development or N-BIOS Prize is an Indian science award for recognizing excellence and promoting research in bio-sciences disciplines. It was instituted in 1999 by the Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India and is for encouraging Indian bio-scientists of less than 45 years of age. The award is given annually for unique contributions made towards the development of state of art in basic and applied areas of biological sciences through demonstrated activity in the form of publication in reputed journals and or patents. The award recognizes research and development work carried out in India during the last 5 years of the career. The award carries a citation, a plaque, a cash prize of and a research support grant of, distributed annually in equal installments for three years. The award is one of the highest Indian biology awards, next to the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize given by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India.

N-BIOS Award recipients

List of awardees

Recipients (1999–2009)

YearRecipientInstitution
1999Umesh VarshneyIndian Institute of Science
1999Kanury Venkata Subba RaoInternational Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
1999Dinakar Mashnu SalunkeNational Institute of Immunology
1999Birendra Nath MallickJawaharlal Nehru University
1999Akhilesh Kumar TyagiUniversity of Delhi
2000P. Pardha SaradhiJamia Millia Islamia
2000P. Ananda KumarIndian Agricultural Research Institute
2000K. P. MohanakumarIndian Institute of Chemical Biology
2000Madhu DikshitCentral Drug Research Institute
2000Anand Kumar BachhawatInstitute of Microbial Technology
2000Amitabha MukhopadhyayNational Institute of Immunology
2001Nagendra Kumar SinghIndian Agricultural Research Institute
2001Ram RajasekharanCentral Food Technological Research Institute
2001P. N. RangarajanIndian Institute of Science
2001Pradip K. ChakrabortiInstitute of Microbial Technology
2001Akhil Chandra BanerjeaNational Institute of Immunology
2001Vinod BhakuniCentral Drug Research Institute
2002M. Radhakrishna Pillai Regional Cancer Centre, Thiruvananthapuram
2002Mohammad Islam KhanNational Chemical Laboratory
2002Rakesh Kumar JainInstitute of Microbial Technology
2002Anil GroverUniversity of Delhi
2002Santanu BhattacharyaIndian Institute of Science
2002Joyoti BasuBose Institute
2002Rakesh AggarwalSanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences
2003Usha VijayaraghavanIndian Institute of Science
2003Trilochan MohapatraIndian Agricultural Research Institute
2003Sudhanshu VratiNational Institute of Immunology
2003Soniya NityanandSanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences
2003Ramesh Venkata SontiCentre for Cellular and Molecular Biology
2003Gopal Chandra KunduNational Centre for Cell Science
2003Chinmoy Sankar DeyNational Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research
2004Jyoti Prakash TamangSikkim Government College, Gangtok
2004Banwari LalThe Energy and Resources Institute
2004K. SekarIndian Institute of Science
2004Narayanaswamy SrinivasanIndian Institute of Science
2004Tapas Kumar KunduJawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
2004Amita AggarwalSanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences
2004Geeta Kashyap VemugantiL. V. Prasad Eye Institute
2005Rajendra Prasad RoyNational Institute of Immunology
2005Sudip ChattopadhyayNational Institute of Plant Genome Research
2005Gajendra Pal Singh RaghavaInstitute of Microbial Technology
2005Apurva SarinTata Institute of Fundamental Research
2005Dulal PandaIndian Institute of Technology, Mumbai
2005Saumitra DasIndian Institute of Science
2006G. Pradeep KumarRajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology
2006Ajay Kumar ParidaMS Swaminathan Research Foundation
2006Pramod P. WangikarIndian Institute of Technology, Mumbai
2006G. Taru SharmaIndian Veterinary Research Institute
2006Javed N. AgrewalaInstitute of Microbial Technology
2006Kumaravel SomasundaramIndian Institute of Science
2006Sanjeev GalandeNational Centre for Cell Science
2007T. R. SharmaIndian Agricultural Research Institute
2007Snehasikta SwarnakarIndian Institute of Chemical Biology
2007Srinivasan RamachandranInstitute of Genomics and Integrative Biology
2007R. SowdhaminiNational Centre for Biological Sciences
2007Ranjan SenCentre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics
2007Owais MohammadAligarh Muslim University
2007G. Dhinakar RajMadras Veterinary College
2007Bhaskar SahaNational Centre for Cell Science
2007Amit Prakash SharmaInternational Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
2008Rajan SankaranarayananCentre for Cellular and Molecular Biology
2008Utpal Shashikant TatuIndian Institute of Science
2008Nihar Ranjan JanaNational Brain Research Centre
2008R. SankararamakrishnanIndian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
2008Anuranjan AnandJawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
2008Samit Kumar NandiWest Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences
2008S. GaneshIndian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
2008Nagasuma ChandraIndian Institute of Science
2008Sangita MukhopadhyayCentre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics.
2008Pushkar SharmaNational Institute of Immunology
2009Rajesh Sudhir GokhaleInstitute of Genomics and Integrative Biology
2009Mohan R. WaniNational Centre for Cell Science
2009Garikapati Narahari SastryIndian Institute of Chemical Technology
2009Ashok M. RaichurIndian Institute of Science
2009Balaji PrakashIndian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
2009K. Narayanaswamy BalajiIndian Institute of Science
2009Debasisa MohantyNational Institute of Immunology
2009Sunil Kumar MannaCentre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics
2009C. KesavadasSree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology

Recipients (2009–2019)

YearRecipientInstitution
2010Shantanu ChowdhuryInstitute of Genomics and Integrative Biology
2010Balasubramanian GopalIndian Institute of Science
2010R. AshalathaSree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology
2010Vinay K. NandicooriNational Institute of Immunology
2010Suman Kumar DharJawaharlal Nehru University
2010Ravishankar RamachandranCentral Drug Research Institute
2010P. KartheUniversity of Madras
2010Dipshikha ChakravorttyIndian Institute of Science
2010Debasis ChattopadhyayNational Institute of Plant Genome Research
2010Anirban BasuNational Brain Research Center
2011Sagar SenguptaNational Institute of Immunology
2011Niyaz AhmedUniversity of Hyderabad
2011Santasabuj DasNational Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases
2011Ashish AroraCentral Drug Research Institute
2011Maneesha S. InamdarJawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
2011Asif MohmmedInternational Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
2011Shantanu SenguptaInstitute of Genomics and Integrative Biology
2011Sujata SharmaAll India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi
2011Dibyendu SarkarInstitute of Microbial Technology
2011M. M. ParidaDefence Research and Development Establishment
2012Vidita VaidyaTata Institute of Fundamental Research
2012Sathees Chukkurumbal RaghavanIndian Institute of Science
2012Asad Ullah KhanAligarh Muslim University
2012Munia GanguliInstitute of Genomics and Integrative Biology
2012S. Venkata MohanIndian Institute of Chemical Technology
2012Durai SundarIndian Institute of Technology, Delhi
2012Subrata AdakIndian Institute of Chemical Biology
2012Aditya Bhushan PantIndian Institute of Toxicology Research
2012Naval Kishore VikramAll India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi
2012Kaustuv SanyalJawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
2013Govindan RajamohanInstitute of Microbial Technology
2013A. K. MukherjeeTezpur University
2013Alok Krishna SinhaNational Botanical Research Institute
2014Manoj PrasadNational Institute of Plant Genome Research
2014Bikramjit BasuIndian Institute of Science
2014Debasis DashInstitute of Genomics and Integrative Biology
2014Ashish SuriAll Indian Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi
2014Deepak Thankappan NairRegional Centre for Biotechnology
2014Ramandeep Singh Translational Health Science and Technology Institute
2014Fayaz A. MalikIndian Institute of Integrative Medicine
2014Patrick D'SilvaIndian Institute of Science
2014Deepak GaurJawaharlal Nehru University
2014Kausik ChattopadhyayIndian Institute of Science Education and Research
2015Sanjeev DasNational Institute of Immunology
2015Ganesh NagarajuIndian Institute of Science
2015Suvendra Nath BhattacharyyaIndian Institute of Chemical Biology
2015H. V. ThulasiramNational Chemical Laboratory
2015Pawan GuptaInstitute of Microbial Technology
2015Souvik MaitiInstitute of Genomics and Integrative Biology
2015Pravindra KumarIndian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
2015Anurag AgrawalInstitute of Genomics and Integrative Biology
2015Girdhar Kumar PandeyUniversity of Delhi
2015Sanjib SenapatiIndian Institute of Technology, Madras
2016Mukesh JainJawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
2016Samir K. MajiIndian Institute of Technology, Mumbai
2016Anindita UkilCalcutta University, Kolkata
2016Arnab MukhopadhyayNational Institute of Immunology, New Delhi
2016Rohit SrivastavaIndian Institute of Technology, Bombay
2016Pinaki Talukdarndian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune
2016Rajnish Kumar ChaturvediCSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow
2016Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram
2017 & 2018Manas Kumar SantraNational Centre for Cell Science
2017 & 2018Dipyaman GangulyIndian Institute of Chemical Biology
2017 & 2018Subhadeep ChatterjeeCentre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics
2017 & 2018Soumen BasakNational Institute of Immunology
2017 & 2018Manoj MajeeNational Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi
2017 & 2018Arun Kumar ShuklaIndian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
2017 & 2018Amit SinghIndian Institute of Science
2017 & 2018Maddika Subba ReddyCentre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics
2017 & 2018Beena Ramakrishnan PillaiInstitute of Genomics and Integrative Biology
2017 & 2018Ashwani KumarInstitute of Microbial Technology
2017 & 2018Mohammad Zahid AshrafJamia Millia Islamia
2017 & 2018Ranjith PadinhateeriIndian Institute of Technology, Mumbai
2017 & 2018Rayala Suresh KumarIndian Institute of Technology, Madras
2017 & 2018Prabhu B. PatilInstitute of Microbial Technology
2017 & 2018Pritam DebTezpur University