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Young Researcher Award
                      During 2020-21, the Trust invited online applications   Dr. R. Mahalakshmi has a long-standing track record
                      from leading scientific research institutions within   of accomplishments in scientific pursuits and has
                      the country and also advertised the Award in a   established a high quality externally funded
                      leading Indian scientific journal and newspapers in   independent research programme at IISER Bhopal
                      four zones.  A total of 40 projects were received. The   in the areas of membrane biology and protein
                      members of the Indian Scientific Advisory   structure. She proposes to leverage these strengths
                      Committee (ISAC), comprising Dr. Surekha. M.   towards a potentially new class of treatment for
                      Zingde, Prof. Susheel Durani, Dr. Tester Ashavaid, Dr.   tuberculosis, with a clear research plan that is both
                      Anurag Agrawal and Dr. Shobhona Sharma     feasible and ambitious.
                      shortlisted 3 applicants for an interview and finally
                      recommended Dr. Radhakrishnan Mahalakshmi of   Institutional Research Grants for Acute Leukemia
                      the Indian Institute of Science Education and   The focus for the year 2020-21 was to consider
                      Research, Bhopal for the Young Researcher Award –   Institutional Research Grant support for ACUTE
                      2020 for her project entitled “Functional tagging of   LEUKEMIA. Of the 12 proposals received, 3 multi-year
                      a Mycobacterial chaperone towards          projects were approved.
                      next-generation antibiotics”.



                       Name                     Institute Name                    Project Title
                       Dr. Nikhil Patkar        ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre,     Metagenomics (mNGS) for the rapid identification of pathogenic organisms
                                                Mumbai.                           causing sepsis in adult patients of acute leukemia (AL) including those
                                                                                  undergoing bone marrow transplantation (BMT).

                       Dr. Vivek S Radhakrishnan   Tata Medical Center, Kolkata   Integrating comprehensive immune characterization to multi-modal genomics
                                                                                  and microbiome strategy in acute myeloid leukemia to better inform disease
                                                                                  management.

                       Dr. Arun Kumar Trivedi   CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute.   Deciphering FLT3-ITD elicited signaling pathways in AML cell growth and block in
                                                Lucknow                           differentiation: Hunt for therapeutic targets and inhibitors for mutant FLT3
                                                                                  proteins.





































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