DBS PhD student Ms. Aparna Varma working with Dr. Amirul Islam Mallick has received the “Best Oral presentation Award-VIROCON 2023″ for her work titled “Neutralisation of SARS-CoV-2 Spike-pseudotyped lentivirus by polyclonal antibody raised against RBD variants” in VIROCON-2023, held at ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu (1st to 3rd December – 2023).