Students do participates in various technical and non-technical events at National and International levels other than Nirma University and have won many Prizes and Certificates.
List of students achievements:
Ms Priya Patel, PhD student of Dr Nasreen Munshi, Institute of Science, Nirma University received the Best Presentation Award for the Rapid Oral Presentation and a poster session titled “Production of [P(3HB-co-3HV)] by Ochrobactrum ciceri strain AWIS01 as a by-product during oily sludge bioremediation” at the International Conference on Innovations in Biotechnology for Sustainability (IBS-2024) held at JNU, New Delhi. The award was given by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in the form of a certificate and a cash prize of Rs. 2000.
Ms Kavya Shah, a PhD student registered with Dr Amee Nair, Institute of Science, Nirma University secured Travel Support Award to participate and present her poster titled “GPx1 Modulation by Redoxi-miRs in the Brain during Altered Glycemic Conditions” at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Society for Free Radical Research-India (SFRR-India), held as part of the SFRR International Conference 2024 during November 6–9, 2024 at the DAE Convention Centre, BARC, Mumbai.
Ms Priya Sharma, PhD student of Prof Sarat Dalai, Director, Institute of Science, Nirma University received the award for the Best Oral Presentation for her work titled Potential of Chimeric of IL-15 and combination therapy with recombinant human IL-12 in tumour regression and combination therapy at the 9th International Conference on Tumor Microenvironment and Cellular Stress: Signaling, Metabolism, Imaging and Therapeutic Targets” held during September 17-22, 2024 at Kalamata, Greece.
Ms Niharika Ghoghari, PhD student under Dr Ravi Kant received the CSIR-SRF Direct 2023, Application no.: 113-487-2362/2k23/1 for continuing her PhD Project Titled ‘Role of Global regulator hfq in succinate mediated catabolite repression of mineral phosphate solubilization in Acinetobacter sp. SK2. (letter dated 15 April 2024)’
Mr Keyur D. Shah, a Semester II student of MSc Biochemistry, Institute of Science, Nirma University is one of the proud recipients of the Science Academies’ Summer Research Fellowship – 2024, which is offered by IASC-INSA-NASI. He will be working under the guidance of Dr. Ritu Trivedi, Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR-CDRI, Lucknow for his research work.
Ms Nidhi Thakkar PhD student registered with Dr. Vijay Kothari, secured first prize for oral presentation (Emerging Scientist) at the “National conference on Antimicrobial Resistance Trends, Environmental Microbiology, and Industrial Solutions (ARTEMIS)” held from March 21-22, 2024 at the Institute of Advanced Research, Gandhinagar.
Mr Jimit Panchal, a student of MSc Biotechnology, Sem -II participated in the Photography contest organised on February 3rd 2024 by Institute of Design, Nirma University. Jimit’s photograph won the Special Jury Award. He received certificate of recognition and cash prize.
Mr Nikunj Umedbhai Tandel, working under guidance of Prof Sarat Dalai, received the Merck Registration fee waiver to attend and present the poster at EMBL coference: BioMalPar XVII: Biology and Pathology of the Malaria Parasites held from May 25-27, 2021.
Miss Chamaneria Akshita Akshay Kavita, PhD student working under guidance of Dr Shalini Rajkumar won the “AMI best Poster Award” at 61st Annual International Conference of the Association of Microbiologist of India and Indian Network for soil contamination research held during 3-5th February, 2021 and ‘Research Excellence Award’ at International Conference of Biotechnology for sustainable Agriculture, Environment and Health. The XVII Annual convention of the Biotech Research Society, India during 4-8th April, 2021.
Priya Patel, PhD student from Institute of Science, Nirma university working under the guidance of Dr. Nasreen Munshi won the ‘Best Poster Presentation’ award at National Conference on “Plastic in the Environment: Current Status and rethinking the future of Plastics” organized by Gujarat Institute of Desert Ecology, Bhuj, India on 7th March, 2020.
The Student Travel Bursary from IMMUNOCON organizing committee to attend the 46th annual conference of the Indian Immunolgy Society (IIS): IMMUNOCON 2019 organized by Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) in Reproduction Health (ICMR-NIRRH) Mumbai from 14th to 16th November 2019 was received by Mr Nikunj Umedbhai Tandel, PhD scholar under guidance of Prof. Sarat Dalai.
Priya Patel, PhD student from Institute of Science, Nirma university working under the guidance of Dr. Nasreen Munshi won the ‘Best Poster Presentation’ award at International Conference on Microbiome Research held during 19-22nd November, 2018 at Pune organized by NEMR, the YSS lab and NCCS.
The FIMSA (Federation of Immunological Society of Asia- Ocenia) travel Bursary to attend IUIS-IIS-FIMSA course on “Basic and Advance Translational Immunology” held at Rajasthan university of Health Science, Jaipur, India from October 12-16. 2019 was awarded to Mr Nikunj Umedbhai Tandel.
Mr Hrimkar Buch and Mr Boman Doctor, students of MSc Biochemistry, participated in PG level Paper presentations for Biochemistry and won first and second prizes, respectively in Science Excellence-2018 at Gujarat University organized by its Botany Department on 20th September, 2018.
Ms Bhagya Iyer, PhD student from Institute of Science, Nirma University working under the guidance of Prof. Shalini Rajkumar, won the “Best Oral Presentation” award in Biotechnology 2018; an International conference on “From Evidence to Excellence and risk Management In Technology & Science” organized by Asfew Conference String, New Delhi held during 18-20th March, 2018.
Ms Madhavi Joshi, PhD student working under the guidance of Dr Amee Nair, received 2nd prize in oral presentation in a National seminar on “Advances in Biotechnology and Biomedical Research” organized by School of Life Sciences, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, held on 17th March, 2018.
Ms Ekta Joshi, PhD student from Institute of Science, Nirma University working under the guidance of Prof. Shalini Rajkumar, received the Best Poster Award at “XXXII GUJARAT SCIENCE CONGRESS – 2018,
Ms Krishna Bharwad, PhD student working under the guidance of Prof. Shalini Rajkumar, received the Best Poster Award at “National Student Conclave 2018” organized by Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, during 18-19th January, 2018.
Ms Madhvi Joshi, PhD scholar working under the guidance of Dr Amee Nair has been awarded ‘Best Poster Award’ at National seminar on Recent advances in Drug discovery organized by institute of Pharmacy, Nirma University, Ahmedabad during March 24th 2017.
Ms Dhriti P. Shah, PhD scholar working under guidance of Dr Amee Nair was awarded IBS award for the ‘Best original paper presentation’ on medical Biotechnology during national symposium on current research in Biotechnology and Annual meet of the Society of Biotechnology (India) 2017 organized by JSS, College of Pharmacy, Ooty and Jagadguru Sri Shivarathreeshwara university, Mysore and Society for Biotechnologist (India) during 15th-16th September 2017.
Ms Vishakha Bhurani, a PhD student of Institute of Science, received Third Prize for Best Paper Presentation in One day National Seminar on “Immunological Advances in Health Management: Current Scenario & Future Perspectives” held on 4th March, 2017 organized by School of Life Sciences, Central University of Gujarat (CUG), Gandhinagar.
Ms Krishna Bharwad, a PhD student at Institute of Science, received the Best Poster Award at “XXXI Gujarat Science Congress 2017” jointly organized by Gujarat Science Academy, Gujarat Energy Research and Management Institute, Pandit Dindayal Petroleum University, Institute of Seismological Research during 4-5th February, 2017 at Gandhinagar,
Mr Ankit Naik, fourth semester student of MSc Biotechnology, was awarded First prize for his Poster presentation in PG/PhD Award category in 2nd National Conference organized by Institute of Pharmacy, Nirma University on “Emerging Trends in Drug Discovery, Developement And Molecular Targets for Cancer Research” during 24-25th January, 2017.
Mr Manoj Patidar, PhD scholar working under guidance of Prof Sarat Dalai, presented a poster at National conference “Malaria Parasite Biology: Drug Designing & Vaccine Development”, organized by Institute of Science, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, 9-10th September, 2016 and won second prize.
Mr Hardik Patel, PhD scholar working under guidance of Prof Sarat Dalai, presented a paper in IMMUNOLOGY held during 13-17th May, 2016 in AAI Annual Meeting, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA.
Ms Darshana Sureshbhai Brahmbhatt, MSc Biotechnology student working under Dr Sonal Bakshi, is selected for Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarship program of Memorial University, Canada. The scholarship sponsors the study, travel, and stay during two years.
Mr Dhavan Sharma, MSc Biotechnology student was awarded Second prize for his oral presentation in Young Scientist Award category in 6th International Translational Cancer Research Conference-2016, which was organized by The International Society of Translational Cancer Research (ISTCR) and The Gujarat Cancer Research Institute (GCRI) at Ahmedabad, Gujarat during 4-7th February, 2016.
Ms Madhavi Joshi, PhD scholar working under guidance of Dr Amee Nair, won Third prize for the Best Poster Presentation in National Conference On Malaria Parasite Biology: Drug Designing & Vaccine Development” organized by and held at Institute of Science, Nirma University, Ahmedabad during 9-10th September, 2015.
Ms Madhvi Joshi, PhD scholar working under the guidance of Dr Amee Nair has been awarded ‘Lalitha and Ravindra Nath International Travel Award’ to participate and present a poster in XXXIII Annual conference of the Indian Academy of Neuroscience (IAN) titled Neuroscience research from mechanism to application organized by department of Biochemistry, Punjab University, Chandigarh, India.
PhD scholar, Mr Nikunj Umedbhai Tandel received the free registration to attend and present the poster at Keystone Symposia’s eSymposia on “Malaria in the Era of COVID-19 EK47” held from March 16-17, 202.
