The Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) was established in November 2002 to contribute the fascinating and emerging area of biological sciences. It has both undergraduate (B.Tech.) and postgraduate (M.Tech. and Ph.D.) academic programmes. The Department is unique in North-Eastern India, imparting quality education and providing an excellent research environment through its ongoing programmes. It imparts training for students to make them competent, motivated engineers and scientists.
Prof. Biman B. Mandal, "S. Ramachandran-National Bioscience Award for Career development 2020-21 by Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India", [2021]
Prof Biman B. Mandal , "BM BIRLA SCIENCE PRIZE in BIOLOGY for the year 2018", [2020]
Prof. Biman B. Mandal, "Swarnajayanti Fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology, India for the year 2019-2020 in the "Life Science" subject", [2020]
Sachin Kumar, " ICMR Award for research in virology in India", [2020]
Dr. Ajay Kunnumakkara, "Appointed as visiting scientist AIST, Japan, 2019", [2019]
Kamal Shokeen, "Deepika Phukan Oncology Research Grant” Award of BBCI for project entitled "Recombinant Newcastle Disease Virus based Breast Cancer Therapy: A Novel Oncolytic Viral Approach", [2021]
Debika Dutta, "Travel grant by American peptide society to attend the American peptide symposium 2019 at Monterey, California. ", [2019]
Phurpa Dema Thungon, "Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellowship (OVDF) from SERB (DST)-UAlberta Partnership scheme to carry out her thesis work at University of Alberta, Canada for a period of one year (May 2019-April 2020)", [2019]
Sanjay M, "1st position and received a cash prize of Rs 25000 for his model “Optisense- a smartphone based malaria detection platform” in the Redstart-All India Startup Challenge, Research Conclave 2019, organized by IIT Guwahati", [2019]
Ishani Chakrabartty, "1st prize in Oral presentation during Indo-Japan Bilateral Symposium for Future Perspectives of Bioresource Utilization in North East India (IJBS’17)held at IIT Guwahati from 1st-4thFebruary 2018 for her paper titled “Alpinia nigra: The unexplored ore of Zingiberaceae for future therapeutics”. (Springer award included 200 Euros)", [2018]
