Fellowships, Awards, Honors, & Prizes:

Review Editor Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology	2022
Review Editor Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences	2022
DBT-Wellcome Trust India Alliance Intermediate Fellowship	2021
International Travel Award from EMBO, for presenting research findings at EMBO Workshop “Lipid function in health and disease” in Dresden, Germany	2019
Selected as UGC - Faculty Recharge Programme fellow (IVth Cycle) in Biological Sciences (not availed)	2017
European Commission, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Individual Fellowships (IF) Call: HORIZON 2020-MSCA-IF-2016 [Reintegration panel]	2017
Fellows Award for Research Excellence (FARE) National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, USA	2016
Advanced Postdoc Mobility (APM) renewal fellowship, Swiss National Science Foundation, SNSF, Bern, Switzerland	2015
Best poster award, Gordon Research Conference (GRC), Molecular and Cellular Biology of Lipids Waterville Valley, NH, USA Poster title: A conserved family of proteins facilitates nascent lipid droplet budding from the ER	2015
Advanced Postdoc Mobility (APM) fellowship, Swiss National Science Foundation, SNSF, Bern, Switzerland	2013
Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and National Eligibility Test (NET) for consideration of Lectureship in Life Sciences in India conducted jointly by CSIR-UGC (Council of Scientific & Industrial Research-University Grants Commission), Government of India, New Delhi, India	2005

Grants Awarded::
AIIMS Intramural Grant
Principal Investigator (PI)
Project title: Investigate the role of fat storage-inducing transmembrane (FITM2) protein in organizing ER subdomains for lipid droplet biogenesis
(Grant Nr: A-1012)
Award: INR 10 lakhs (2024 – 2026)

Indo-DBT and SNSF Joint Research project
Principal Investigator (PI)
Project title: Deciphering the functions of the conserved fat storage-inducing transmembrane (FITM2) protein in lipodystrophy and insulin resistance through systems approaches
(Grant Nr: IC-12044(11)/6/2021-ICD-DBT)
Award: INR 250 lakhs (2021 – 2025)

DBT-Wellcome Trust India Alliance Intermediate Fellowship
Principal Investigator (PI)
Project title: Molecular Mechanisms of Lipid Droplet Biogenesis
(Grant Nr: IA/I/20/2/505191)
Award: INR 359 lakhs (2021 – 2026)

AIIMS Intramural Grant
Principal Investigator (PI)
Project title: Investigate the role of seipin protein in ectopic lipid droplet formation
(Grant Nr: A-863)
Award: INR 10 lakhs (2021 – 2023)

European Commission, HORIZON 2020, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Principal Investigator (PI)
Project title: Identification and characterization of sites of lipid droplet biogenesis in the ER
(Grant Nr: 747536)
Award: EURO 187,420. (2018 – 2020)

Swiss National Science Foundation, SNSF, Bern, Switzerland
Principal Investigator (PI)
Advanced Postdoc Mobility Fellowship
Project title: Investigating the role of FIT proteins in lipid droplet formation
(Grant Nr: P300P3_158454)
Award: USD 63,600 (2015 – 2016)

Swiss National Science Foundation, SNSF, Bern, Switzerland
Principal Investigator (PI)
Advanced Postdoc Mobility Fellowship
Project title: Investigating the early stages of lipid droplet biogenesis
(Grant Nr: PA00P3_145358)
Award: USD 125,200. (2013 – 2015)