Dr. Kavita Reddy and Ph.D. students were awarded the best poster award for the poster on "Identification of a novel single nucleotide splice variant in the IFNGR2 gene in a family with primary immunodeficiency disease" at the 3rd International Conference on Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases (ICPID) held at Chennai, February 21-23, 2015.

Tejaswini Subbannayya was awarded the best poster award for the poster on "Macrophage migration inhibitory factor - A therapeutic target in gallbladder cancer"at the 13th Human Proteome Organization World Congress held at Madrid, Spain from October 5-8, 2014.

Two Ph.D. students from IOB have received awards for their presentation at at the 4th Asian Conference on Environmental Mutagens (ACEM) held in IICB, Kolkata, India from December 10-12, 2014.

Tejaswini Subbannayya was awarded the best poster award for the poster on "Macrophage migration inhibitory factor - A therapeutic target in gallbladder cancer".

Jayshree Advani was awarded the best poster award for the poster on "Role of miRNAs in promoting lung cancer in response to cigarette smoke".

Two Ph.D. students from IOB have received awards for their presentation at Amrita BioQuest International Conference on Biotechnology for innovative applications held in Amrita University, Kerala, India.

Tejaswini Subbannayya was awarded first prize in Delegate Talks under the Bioanalytical Techniques category on "Proteomic profiling of gallbladder cancer secretome – a source for circulatory biomarker discovery".

Dr. Krishna R. Murthy's talk on "Proteomic analysis of human vitreous humor" was awarded second prize in Ten Talks category.

Institute of Bioinformatics was actively involved in organizing and participating in the second Elsevier's 'CodeForScience' (CSF) event that was successfully concluded on July 29th, 2012 by an Awards ceremony held at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. BabyLakshmi Muthusamy, Harsha Gowda and Joji Kurian Thomas won second prize in the concept formulation and development rounds at the event. This was featured in an article in Times of India.

An article that appeared in The Hindu covered a new collaboration planned between Madurai Kamaraj University and the Institute of Bioinformatics. MKU is going to sign an MoU with IOB for exploring training and research collaboration in the field of bioinformatics, genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics between the two leading institutions.

Proteomic Progress : Cell Press has recently highlighted research achievements of IOB in its 'Chemistry and Biology Innovations' section. The article narrates the transformation of IOB from a small research centre dedicated to biological databases into a multifaceted research institute well equipped to carry out Proteogenomic analyses of large number of organisms which are relevant to global as well as Indian perspectives.

at IOB has received a Wellcome Trust-DBT Early Career Fellowship which is intended for the most promising young researchers in India.

Dr. Akhilesh pandey was featured in Hopkins Medicine magazine as one of the visionary proteomics researchers working towards mapping the entire human proteome. The article also provides a glimpse of his journey and quest towards establishing a world class research center in India.

IOB successfully hosted a two days Indo-Canandian collaborative workshop on "Integrative and Computa- tional Biology" on December 16 and 17.  Dr. Brenda Andrews, Director, Donelly Center  for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto led four member delegation from Canada in this workshop.