(Lipid Metabolism Laboratory)
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)