Achievements and Awards

RCB has won several distinctions in the short span of just over a decade of existence. RCB was awarded the status of an Institution of National Importance by the Parliament of India in 2016. The faculty members and scientists of the Centre have won some of the highest national research awards, including the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Biological Sciences, the National Bioscience Award, the India Alliance Wellcome Trust-DBT Intermediate and Early Career Fellowship Awards, the Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award, the Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship, the Ramanujan Fellowship, the INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship, the J C Bose National Fellowship etc. Several RCB faculty members are elected fellows of the prestigious Indian science academies; the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) and the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), and Indian Academy of Sciences (Bangalore). RCB's students have secured positions in the best institutions globally. Postdoctoral fellows trained at RCB have gone on to secure prestigious positions in academia, science management, and industry.