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Recognition/Fellowships/Awards/Grants
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2020 Associate Editor, Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine/ Genetics
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2019 Member, Board of Studies, Immunology, University of Calicut, Kerala, Indi
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2017 Ramalingaswami Fellowship Grant from the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, 2017
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2017 Manuscript, Indulekha Pillai et al, Cardiac Fibroblasts Adopt Osteogenic Fates and Can Be Targeted to Attenuate Pathological Heart Calcification, Cell Stem Cell,2017,20.2,2017 p218–232.e5,selected as Science Magazine Editor’s choice (Science 16 December 2016. Vol 354 issue 6318)
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2017 Indulekha Pillai et al, paper published in Cell Stem Cell (Indulekha Pillai et al.,2017,20.2,2017 p218–232.e5) selected as Cover story of Cell Stem Cell February 2017 issue.
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2013 Moderator/Discussant, American Heart Association Annual meeting, Dallas, 2013
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2011 Dr.MR Das Career Award with gold medal, from Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, India for noted professional achievements as a graduate student.
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2009 Marie Curie funding from European Union to attend and present our findings in 6th International Stem cell school, Denmark.
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2009 Travel grant, Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India, to present our findings in Annual meeting of Society for Neuroscience, Chicago.
2007 Senior Research Fellowship from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India
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2005 Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India
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2004 National Eligibility Test for Lectureship, by University Grants Commission, Govt. of India
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2004 First rank and Gold medal in MSc Biotechnology from University of Kerala, India
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2004 Certificate of Merit, Dept. of Biotechnology, University of Kerala, India for being an outstanding Masters’ student.