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•   "Hearty congratulations and best wishes to our past student Ms. Pankhuri Sinha for her selection for the prestigious EuReCa International fellowship (2021) for PhD at Curie Institute, Paris" (being a part of a group of 11 students selected worldwide).


•   "Congratulations to Dr. Neelu Nawani, Mr. Kiran Lokhande, Ms. Sayali Doiphode for winning a prize of Rs. 25000/- in the Drug Discovery Hackathon 2020"
  Objectives: Identification of drug candidates that are effective against coronavirus SARS-CoV-2- by employing a hackathon for in-silico drug discovery, followed up by chemical synthesis and biological testing.
  Summary: Drug Discovery Hackathon 2020 (DDH2020) is a joint initiative of AICTE, CSIR, Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell and supported by Office of Principal Scientific Advisor, Govt. of India, NIC and MyGov. Apex committee of DDH comprises of Prof. Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India; Prof. Anil Sahasrabudhe, Chairman, AICTE; Dr. Shekhar Mande, Director General, CSIR and Dr. Abhay Jere, Chief Innovation Officer, Ministry of Education Innovation Cell. Only 10 entries were selected at a national level amongst thousands of entries.


•   Project Fellow Position on Dpu Research Project: “Develop Clia Based Diagnostic Assay for Enhanced Detection of Covid-19”


•   'We are proud to announce that Dr. D. Y. Patil Biotechnology & Bioinformatics Institute has been awarded with "National Excellence Award 2020" organized by National Educational Excellence Awards And Conference 2020 and recognized as "Top Biotechnology & Bioinformatics Institute of the Year 2020 under the category - Quality Education and Innovative Teaching Approach". The Award was accepted by Dr. P. D. Patil, the Honorable Chancellor DPU, Dr. Smita Jadhav, Trustee, DPU and Professor J. K. Pal, Director, Dr. D. Y. Patil Biotechnology & Bioinformatics Institute. The Institute is also selected to receive another award under the category “50 Most Promising Educational Institutes of India 2020”'


•   Project Fellow position on DPU research project: “ Influence of chemical contaminants in natural water bodies on the emergence of antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli ”


•   "Hearty Congratulations to our past student of M. Tech Biotechnology "Dr. Siddhant Bhoir" who recently defended his Ph.D. thesis on the topic "Validation of human tousled-like kinase 1B as a molecular target for anticancer therapy" under the guidance of Prof. Sivapriya Kirubakaran at the Department of Biological Engineering, IIT Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India"


•   Extramural project on "Segregation and management of laboratory wastes for resource recovery and value addition" by Dr. Viniti Vaidya (PI) and Prof. Neelu Nawani (Co-PI) has been sanctioned by DST-TDT. Congratulations to both the Faculties.


•   "Junior Research Fellow (JRF) position on DST-TDT research project: “Segregation and management of laboratory wastes for resource recovery and value addition” More Details


•   "Dr. D. Y. Patil Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Institute/DYPBBI family is proud to congratulate our alumni Mr. Faraz Zaidi (B. Tech. Biotechnology, 2004-2008 batch) for his achievements in designing and testing a new corona virus vaccine, for the pandemic- COVID-19, at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, US." Dr. D. Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune, is glad to greet him on this wonderful achievement and recognition of his merits.


•   "Hearty congratulations to Ms. Pankhuri Sinha (B.Tech. Biotechnology batch 2015-2019) for the award of Khorana Fellowship 2020"


•   Welcome to Alumni 2020


•   Congratulations to Mr. Kiran Bharat Lokhande for the award of Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) from Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR ), New Delhi.


•   Congratulations to Prof. J. K. Pal for his nomination as a Life member of the prestigious Maharashtra Association for the Cultivation of Science (Agharkar Research Institute), Pune


•   "Congratulations to Ms. Neeta Wagle, Ms. Priti Yewale, Prof. Neelu Nawani for selection of their innovation "A Multipurpose Low Cost Biological Air Purifier" for the "Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award 2018, GYTI 2018". The award will be received at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 19th March 2018 at the hands of Dr. R. A. Mashelkar and DBT Secretary and Chairman, BIRAC"


•   Institute has received the prestigious DST-FIST award for Development of Infrastructure and equipment for teaching and Research.


•   Director, DYPBBI has been invited to the Noble Lecture series -2018 organised by DBT, New Delhi, Government of India.The Delhi meeting with a number of Noble Lauretes will be held in Rashtrapati Bhavan to be Presided over by the Hon. President of India.


•   Congratulations to Mr. Siddhant Bhoir, M.Tech (Int) Biotechnology( Batch 2008) for selecting "Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship for 2018-2019” at the Louisiana State University, US.