Forthcoming Events

XLIV Annual meeting of Indian Academy of Neurosciences (IAN-2026) will be organized during October 6-9, 2026 at The BRIC- National Brain Research Centre (BRIC-NBRC), Manesar-Gurgaon, India.

Tulsabai Somani Educational Trust Award

The award is given for the best paper presented in the oral session at the annual conference of Indian Academy of Neurosciences. The award includes INR 1,500/- (Rupees One thousand five hundred only), memento and certificate.

Eligibility: The candidate / nominee should essentially be a member of Indian Academy of Neurosciences and below 40 years of age at the time of conference.

Nomination for Young Scientist Oral Presentation Awards- IAN 2026

Awardees

2025	Kruttika Phalanikar, BRIC-inStem, Bangalore, India Putative risk variants in chromatin genes impacted in bipolar disorder
2024	Palkin Arora, DRDO, New Delhi
2023	Gunjan Sharma, Department of Physiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi Reviving Mobility: Investigating the Therapeutic Potential of Intermittent Theta Burst Stimulation (iTBS) in Spinal Cord Injured Rats
2022	Aliya Mufti, Department of Physiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India Cortical Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation a Promising Biomarker and therapeutic modality to induce Synaptic Plasticity in Cerebral Palsy Children with Single and Paired Pulses Paradigm
2022	Aliya Mufti, Department of Physiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India Cortical Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation a Promising Biomarker and therapeutic modality to induce Synaptic Plasticity in Cerebral Palsy Children with Single and Paired Pulses Paradigm
2021	Bhanu Prakash Tewari, Department of Neuroscience, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA Perineuronal nets regulate homeostatic functions of Astrocytes.
2020	Yogita K Adlakha, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, NCR Biotech, Science Cluster, 3rd Milestone, Faridabad - Gurgaon Expressway, Faridabad - 121 001; Haryana, India MiRNA-135 regulates human neural stem cell fate: Adopting induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) derived 2D neural stem cells (NSCs) to study neural development.
2019	Rahul Gaurav, Brain and Spine Institute - ICM, Center for NeuroImaging Research - CENIR, Paris, France Changes In Neuromelanin-Sensitive MRI Signal In Parkinsons Disease: A Longitudinal Study Of Progression Marker.
2018	Mainak Sengupta, Department of Genetics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata An effort to characterize genomic variations modifying the clinical discourse of Wilson's Disease, a Mendelian disorder with complex traits.
2017	Ankita Pandey, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow Induced autophagy protects neural stem cell derived lineage against toxic insult by ameliorating apoptosis and mitochondrial dysfunctions
2016	Mayank Gautam, Department of Anatomy, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi Characterization of antinociceptive effect following activation of the spinal cannabinoid type 1 receptor in rats
2015	Mahar Fatima, Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, Neurovirology Section, National Brain Research Centre, NH-8, Nainwal Road, Manesar - 122 051, Haryana, India TRIM32 Mediates HIV-1 Tat Induced Quiescence of Human Neural Precursor Cells through disruption in miRNA regulation
2014	Anu Mary Varghese, Department of Neurophysiology, National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences, Bengaluru - 560 029, India Chitortiosidase, aputative biomarker of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis intercedes neurodegeneration in spinal motor neurons via neuro-inflammation
2013	Ritabrata Banerjee, Anup K. Ghosh, Balaram Ghosh, Amal C. Mondal Raja Peary Mohan College, (Affiliated University of Calcutta), Uttarpara, Jadavpur, Kolkata Role of neurotrophins in pathophysiology of suicide
2012	Pranay Srivastava, R.S. Yadav, R.K. Shukla, L.P. Chandravanshi, Y. Dhuriya, L.K.S Chauhan, A.B. Pant, V.K. Khanna Developmental Toxicology Division, CSIR – Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow - 226 001 Protective efficacy of curcumin in arsenic induced mitochondrial dysfunctions, apoptosis and memory impairment in rats
2011	K. Mahati, V Bhgya, T Christofer, TR Raju and BS Shankaranarayana Rao Department of Neurophysiology, National institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bengaluru - 560 029 Escitalopram and Environmental Enrichment Act Synergistically to Restore Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity, Enhanced Anxiety and Cognitive Deficits in an Endogenous Animal Model of Depression
2010	Sonali Kataria, Pavan Kumar, Mukesh Varshney, Pushpa Dhar, Raj D. Mehra All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi - 110 029 Estrogen Exerts Neuroprotective Effects by Regulation of p-CREB, bcl2 and bax in the Subiculum of Female Rats
2009	V. Bhagya, BN Srikumar, TR Raju and BSS Rao Department of Neurophysiology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore - 560 029 Chronic Reboxetine treatment restores hippocampal long term potentiation, monoamine levels and spatial memory in depressed rats
2008	Richa Tiwari, Vivek Sharma, Nitin Koul and Ellora Sen National Brain Research Centre, Manesar, Haryana - 122 050 Inducing GBM cell death through lipid RAFT intervention
2007	Subhrangshu Guhathakurta, A.S. Singh, S. Sinha, A. Chatterjee, S. Ahmad and R. Usha Manovikas Biomedical Research and Diagnostic Centre, Kolkata Serotonin receptor 2A gene (HTR2A) polymorphisms: A genetic correlation with autism in the Indian population
2006	Merlin Margaret, Kavindra Nath, Nuzhat Husain, Mukesh Tripathi, Pauliah Mohan, Sunil Kumar, Yogendra Kumar Gupta, Rakesh Kumar Gupta Department of Radiology and Anaesthesiology, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow Macrosphere induced permanent MCAO rat stroke model – study on A 1.5 T magnetic resonance clinical scanner and its histopathological correlation
December 2005	K. Ramkumar, B.S.S. Rao and T.R. Raju Department of Neurophysiology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore Environmental enrichment ameliorates stress induced spatial learning impairment, dendritic atrophy and cholinergic dysfunction in the hippocampus
January 2005	B. N. Srikumar, T.R. Raju and B.S.S. Rao Department of Neurophysiology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore Amelioration of chronic stress induced learning and memory deficit by dopaminergic and cholinergic agonists
2004	K. Nutan Department of Neurophysiology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore
2003	NFS
2002	P. Prakash Babu, A.K. Kota, P. Malekar, S. Singh and P. P. Babu Department of Animal Sciences, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad - 500 046 The pathology of fatal murine cerebral malaria in mice brain is a necrosis-apoptosis morphological continuum
2001	Vinay K Khanna, M. Husain, P.K. Dalal, A.K. Agrawal, M. Dikshit, D. Nag, R.C. Srimal and P.K. Seth Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, Lucknow – 226 001 Useful of platelet 5-HT2A receptors, intracellular calcium and membrane fluidity assay in monitoring of depression

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