National Award for Excellence in Academic Clinical Research
ISCR’s 5th National Award for Excellence in Academic Clinical Research 2025
5th National Award for Excellence in Academic Clinical Research 2025

MID CAREER CATEGORY

Dr. Amol N Patil
Additional Professor, Department of Pharmacology, PGIMER, Chandigarh
MBBS, MD, and DNB in Pharmacology

Prize winning Research Project

Research interests - Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacogenetics, Clinical trials, Animal Pharmacology
Experience - Dr Amol has 15 + years of experience in teaching pharmacology, 
Achievements   He is recipient of -
  • KVPY fellowship from IISc Bangalore, 
  • Early career research award from Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.
  • Consecutive three year awards from PGIMER, Chandigarh for best clinical research in Faculty category

5th National Award for Excellence in Academic Clinical Research 2025

EARLY CAREER CATEGORY

Dr. Anusha Natarajan
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology,
Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India

Prize winning Research Project

  • Dr. Anusha N. is an accomplished Assistant Professor at JIPMER, specialising in pharmacology and clinical research.
  • She holds an MBBS and an MD in Pharmacology from the Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, where she secured the University Gold Medal for her academic excellence.
  • Awarded the Perunthalaivar Kamarajar Scholarship during her MBBS program
  • Winner of multiple awards at national and international conferences for her research and presentations
  • Author of 26 publications in indexed journals, contributing significantly to pharmacology and healthcare research
  • Her Research areas of interest include Rational and Safe Use of Medicines, Drug Utilisation Studies.

Dr. Basavaraj Poojar
Faculty in Pharmacology, Kasturba Medical College Mangalore, Manipal Academy of Higher Education,
Karnataka, Manipal, 576104, India

Prize winning Research Project

  • Holds a PhD in Clinical Pharmacology from Manipal Academy of Higher Education
  • Has 8+ years of experience in research and academia
  • Member of the WHO Global Research Agenda on Knowledge Translation (KT) Delphi Committee
  • Member of the Afromed Scientific and Ethics Review Board, Zambia.
  • Awarded:
    • 4 National travel grants from various agencies and 1 International travel grant
    • 3 international conference registration grants
    • Received a research grant as Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)
  • Academic contributions include:
    • 24 publications in peer-reviewed journals and 2 book chapters

ISCR’s 4th National Award for Excellence in Academic Clinical Research 2024
4th National Award for Excellence in Academic Clinical Research 2024

MID CAREER CATEGORY

Dr. Venkatraman Radhakrishnan
Professor and Head of the Department of Medical and Pediatric Oncology
Cancer Institute (W.I.A), Adyar, Chennai

Prize winning Research Project

MULTI-CENTER, PHASE 3, RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL, COMPARING DAUNORUBICIN AND ARAC (DA) VERSUS ARAC, DAUNORUBICIN, AND ETOPOSIDE (ADE) INDUCTION
CHEMOTHERAPY IN PEDIATRIC ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA (INPOG-AML-01-14).

4th National Award for Excellence in Academic Clinical Research 2024

Early Career category

Dr Ishita Gupta
Assistant Director cum Research Scientist,
Centre for Chronic Disease Control, New Delhi, India

Prize winning Research Project

Epidemiological pattern of COVID-19 and its association with periodontal health in an urban Indian cohort.

ISCR’s 3rd National Award for Excellence in Academic Clinical Research 2022
3rd National Award for Excellence in Academic Clinical Research 2022
The third edition of the awards had close to 60 applications from over 25 Medical and Research Institutions, representing all regions across India. This year a third category of awards was added for Senior researchers who had completed more than 20 years since their specialty degree. The winners were invited to present their research work at the 15th Annual ISCR Conference (Virtual) on 5th March 2022. .

SENIOR CAREER CATEGORY

Dr. Prabhakaran Dorairaj
MD, DM (Cardiology), MSc
Vice President (Research and Policy) and Director,
Centre for Control of Chronic Conditions,
Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), Gurugram

Prize winning Research Project

Effects of a Yoga Based Cardiac Rehabilitation Program (YOGA- CARE) on Cardiovascular Health - A Clinical Trial (India) and a Mechanistic Study (UK)

3rd National Award for Excellence in Academic Clinical Research 2022

MID CAREER CATEGORY

Dr. Deepti Suri
Professor of Paediatric Allergy and Immunology,
Post-graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research
(PGIMER), Chandigarh

Prize winning Research Project

To study the nuclear role of WASp Protein in non- erythroid blood cell compartments of patients with Wiscott Aldrich Syndrome

Dr. Manjul Tripathi
Associate Professor, Dept. of Neurosurgery, Gamma Knife
Radiosurgery, Post-graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh

Prize winning Research Project

Safety and Efficacy of Stereotactic Radiosurgery in the Management of Hypothalamic Hamartoma.

3rd National Award for Excellence in Academic Clinical Research 2022

EARLY CAREER CATEGORY

Dr. Ankur Kumar Jindal
Assistant Professor of Paediatric Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology,
Post-graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research
(PGIMER), Chandigarh

Prize winning Research Project

Assessment of T cell abnormalities in patients and carrier females of X-linked agammaglobulinemia (XLA): a flow cytometry and next generation sequencing based study from India

Dr. Mohammad Shafi Kuchay
Consultant, Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes,
Medanta The Medicity, Gurugram

Prize winning Research Project

Effect of dulaglutide on liver fat in patients with type 2 diabetes and NAFLD: randomized controlled trial (D-LIFT Trial)

Dr. Nipun Verma
Associate Professor, Department of Hepatology,
Post-graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research
(PGIMER), Chandigarh

Prize winning Research Project

APASL-ACLF research consortium-artificial intelligence (AARC-AI) model precisely predicts outcomes in acute-on-chronic liver failure patients.

Winners of the 2nd National Awards for Excellence in Academic Clinical Research 2021
ISCR through the Academic Consortium for Clinical Research in India (ACCRI) initiative had for the first time instituted the National Awards for Excellence in Academic Clinical Research in 2020, which elicited a very good response with 23 applications. After a rigorous evaluation process, 4 academic researchers in total (two in each career category) were confirmed as winners and received the awards at the 13th Annual ISCR Conference in January 2020 at Mumbai.

MID CAREER CATEGORY

Dr. Bhavuk Garg
Additional Professor, Dept. of Orthopaedics
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) New Delhi

Prize winning Research Study

Role of 3D printing in complex spinal deformity correction

Dr. Prashant Kumar
Faculty Scientist
Institute of Bioinformatics, Bengaluru

Prize winning Research Study

Patient derived circulating tumour cell cluster phenotype allows monitoring response to treatment and predicts survival

Winners of the 2nd National Awards for Excellence in Academic Clinical Research 2021
The second edition of the awards saw an increase in participation with 35 applicants competing for the awards with 4 winners in two career categories. The winners were invited to present their research work and received the awards at the 14th Annual ISCR Conference (Virtual) in March 2021.

EARLY CAREER CATEGORY

Dr. Kavita Singh
Research Scientist and Epidemiologist
Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) Gurugram, Haryana

Prize winning Research Study

Collaborative care in secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease in India

Dr. Tuhina Banerjee
Professor, Microbiology
Institute of Medical Sciences Banaras Hindu University Varanasi

Prize winning Research Study

Mutations at novel sites in pmrA/B and IpxA/D Genes and Reduced Fitness in Colistin-Resistant Acinotobacter Baumanii from a Tertiary Care Hospital, India

Winners of the 1st National Awards for Excellence in Academic Clinical Research 2020

MID CAREER CATEGORY

Dr. Arpana A. Iyengar
Professor, Department of Paediatric Nephrology
St John’s National Academy of Health Sciences Bengaluru

Prize winning Research Study

Determining the optimal dose of Cholecalciferol supplementation in Children with Chronic kidney disease – A multi-centre randomised controlled trial

Dr. George M. Varghese
Professor and Head, Department of Infectious Diseases
Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu

Prize winning Research Study

Performance of Molecular and Serologic Tests for the Diagnosis of Scrub Typhus

Winners of the 1st National Awards for Excellence in Academic Clinical Research 2020

EARLY CAREER CATEGORY

Dr. Kedar Mehta
Assistant Professor, Community Medicine
GMERS Medical College & Hospital, Vadodara

Prize winning Research Study

Effect of “Mobile phone reminders and electronic tracking tool” (M-TRACK) on pre-treatment Loss to Follow up (LFU) among PLHIV under programme settings: An interventional study from Gujarat, India

Dr. Krithiga Shridhar
Epidemiologist
Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), Gurugram

Prize winning Research Study

Computer-Aided Diagnostic Tool for Early Detection of Oral Precancer and Cancer: Digital Image Analysis using Supervised Machine Learning Model

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