Academic Honours

• • Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore.
  • Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad.
  • Member, Govt. of India - Department of Biotechnology Task Force in Chronic Disease Biology.
  • Member, Governing Body - Translational Health Sciences & Technology Institute, (Govt. of India - Department of Biotechnology)
  • Member, Governing Body - National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (Government of India), Kolkatta.
  • Member, Research Council, National Institute of Interdisciplinary Sciences & Technology (CSIR-RRL), Thiruvananthapuram.
  • Member, Academic Committee and Technology Development Committee Sree Chitra Thirunal Institute of Medical Sciences & Technology, (Govt. of India), Thiruvananthapuram.
  • Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, National Centre for Cell Sciences (Govt. of India), Pune

Mentor For PhDs

• Fourteen PhDs produced – all in academic and scientific positions. Six ongoing PhD students

  Research Grants
  42 research grants completed (till December 2009)
  8 ongoing research grants.
  Principal Coordinator for 6 multi center programs
  

Research Honours

• 2003 - National Bioscience Career Award, Department of Biotechnology,Government of India..
• 2000 - Recipient of the Indian Council of Medical Research Sandoz Oration Award for Outstanding Cancer Research in the field of human papillomavirus research..
• 1991 - Recipient of the Indian Council of Medical Research Raja Ravi Sher Singh Award for outstanding Cancer Research by a young scientist in recognition for PhD work on "Development of an Immunological Staging System for cervical cancer"...

Previous Affiliation

• Professor of Molecular Medicine, Regional Cancer Centre, Thiruvananthapuram 695011(1991-2005).