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Dr. Titas Sengupta has been named a recipient of the 2026 Simons Foundation “Fellows to Faculty” award

Dr. Titas Sengupta, an IISER Kolkata BS-MS alumna from the Department of Biological Sciences (Class of 2014).

Dr. Sengupta has been named a recipient of the 2026 Simons Foundation “Fellows to Faculty” award. You can read more about this honor here: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2026/07/31/announcing-the-recipients-of-the-2026-fellows-to-faculty-awards/

Her career trajectory and previous accomplishments are detailed here: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/people/titas-sengupta/

She has achieved remarkable success and is currently on the path to establishing an independent research position.

Dr. Sourav Banerjee has recently joined the Division of Medical Research, Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences at SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRMIST), Chennai, as an Assistant Professor

Dr. Sourav Banerjee has recently joined the Division of Medical Research, Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences at SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRMIST), Chennai, as an Assistant Professor. He will continue working with a diverse range of human infective protozoan parasites and will be building a research program on ‘Molecular Parasitology’ here.

Prof. Amirul I. Mallick, Department of Biological Sciences, IISER Kolkata, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB).

Prof. Amirul I. Mallick, Department of Biological Sciences, IISER Kolkata, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB).