{{more citations needed|date=April 2021}} {{Infobox film award | name = National Bio-science Award for Career Development | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | subheader = National award for contributions to science | awarded_for = | sponsor = [[Department of Biotechnology]] | firstawarded = 1999 | lastawarded = 2015 | reward = {{ubl|Citation Plaque|{{INR}}200,000<br>Research grant of {{INR}}1500,000{{Refn|group=note|Research grant is paid in three equal yearly installments}}}} | website = | previous = | next = }} The '''National Bio-science Award for Career Development''' or '''N-BIOS Prize''' is an Indian science award for recognizing excellence and promoting research in bio-sciences disciplines.<ref name="National Bioscience Awards for Career Development">{{cite web | url=http://www.dbtindia.nic.in/funding-mechanism-2/awards/#1 | title=National Bioscience Awards for Career Development | publisher=Department of Biotechnology, Government of India | date=2016 | access-date=October 18, 2016 | archive-date=July 13, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160713044538/http://www.dbtindia.nic.in/funding-mechanism-2/awards/#1 | url-status=dead }}</ref> It was instituted in 1999 by the [[Department of Biotechnology]] of the Government of India and is for encouraging Indian bio-scientists of less than 45 years of age.<ref name="National Bioscience Award: Entries invited">{{cite web | url=http://english.mathrubhumi.com/education/news/news-updates/national-bioscience-award-entries-invited-english-news-1.699387 | title=National Bioscience Award: Entries invited | publisher=Mathrubhumi | date=November 27, 2015 | access-date=October 18, 2016}}</ref> The award is given annually for unique contributions made towards the development of state of art in basic and applied areas of biological sciences through demonstrated activity in the form of publication in reputed journals and or patents.<ref name="Young Scientist Awards for Hyderabad Varsity">{{cite web | url=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/young-scientist-awards-for-hyderabad-varsity/236857-60-121.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309220310/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/young-scientist-awards-for-hyderabad-varsity/236857-60-121.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=2012-03-09 | title=Young Scientist Awards for Hyderabad Varsity | date=2016 | access-date=17 March 2012 | last=[[IBN Live]]}}</ref> The award recognizes research and development work carried out in India during the last 5 years of the career. The award carries a citation, a plaque, a cash prize of {{INR|200,000}} and a research support grant of {{INR|1500,000}}, distributed annually in equal installments for three years.<ref name="NOMINATIONS FOR NATIONAL BIOSCIENCE AWARD FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT: 2016">{{Cite web |url=http://www.dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/AdvtBIOSCIENCE01122016.pdf |title=NOMINATIONS FOR NATIONAL BIOSCIENCE AWARD FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT: 2016 |date=2016 |website=Department of Biotechnology |access-date=2017-11-06 |archive-date=2018-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180304191352/http://www.dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/AdvtBIOSCIENCE01122016.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Bioscience Award conferred on seven scientists">{{cite web | url=http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/13/stories/2007031307421200.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070315222254/http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/13/stories/2007031307421200.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=2007-03-15 | title=Bioscience Award conferred on seven scientists | date=2016 | access-date=20 March 2012 | work=[[The Hindu]] | last=[[The Hindu]]}}</ref> The award is one of the highest Indian biology awards, next to the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] given by the [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] of India.<ref name="Prestigious bioscience award for IICT scientist">{{cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Prestigious-bioscience-award-for-IICT-scientist/articleshow/18997151.cms | title=Prestigious bioscience award for IICT scientist | publisher=Times of India | date=March 16, 2013 | access-date=October 16, 2016}}</ref>
== N-BIOS Award recipients == List of awardees<ref name="Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development">{{cite web | url=http://dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/list_of_bioscience_awardees.pdf | title=Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development | publisher=Department of Biotechnology | date=2016 | access-date=October 17, 2016 | archive-date=March 4, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180304191331/http://dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/list_of_bioscience_awardees.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="N-BIOS awardees 2014">{{cite web | url=http://www.dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/NationalBioScienceAwardCareerDevelopment2014.pdf | title=N-BIOS awardees 2014 | publisher=Department of Biotechnology | date=2016 | access-date=October 18, 2016 | archive-date=May 11, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511084025/http://www.dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/NationalBioScienceAwardCareerDevelopment2014.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="N-BIOS awardees 2015">{{cite web | url=http://www.dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/bioscience-award.pdf | title=N-BIOS awardees 2015 | publisher=Department of Biotechnology | date=2016 | access-date=October 18, 2016 | archive-date=May 22, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210522124148/http://www.dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/bioscience-award.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Not awarded in 2016, awards for 2017 and 2018 declared together}}<ref name="Awardees for the year 2017 and 2018">{{Cite web |url=http://www.dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/list-of-selected-awardees-for-NBA-2017amp-2018.pdf |title=Awardees for the year 2017 and 2018 |date=2018-12-26 |website=Department of Biotechnology |access-date=2018-12-26 |archive-date=2018-12-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181226232523/http://www.dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/list-of-selected-awardees-for-NBA-2017amp-2018.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
=== Recipients (1999–2009) === {{multiple image|direction=vertical | width = 120 | image1 = Dinakar M. Salunke.jpg | caption1 = [[Dinakar Mashnu Salunke]] | image2 = Raghava2.png | caption2 = [[Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava]] | image3 = Photo nksingh.jpg | caption3 = [[Nagendra Kumar Singh]] | image4 = Santanu Bhattacharya - Kolkata 2015-12-23 7484.JPG | caption4 = [[Santanu Bhattacharya]] }} {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="width:75%" ! scope="col" style="width:10%" | Year ! scope="col" style="width:25%" | Recipient ! scope="col" style="width:40%" | Institution |- |1999||[[Umesh Varshney]]||[[Indian Institute of Science]] |- |1999||[[Kanury Venkata Subba Rao]]||[[International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology]] |- |1999||[[Dinakar Mashnu Salunke]]||[[National Institute of Immunology, India|National Institute of Immunology]] |- |1999||[[Birendra Nath Mallick]]||[[Jawaharlal Nehru University]] |- |1999||[[Akhilesh Kumar Tyagi]]||[[University of Delhi]] |- |2000||[[P. Pardha Saradhi]]||[[Jamia Millia Islamia]] |- |2000||[[P. Ananda Kumar]]||[[Indian Agricultural Research Institute]] |- |2000||[[K. P. Mohanakumar]]||[[Indian Institute of Chemical Biology]] |- |2000||[[Madhu Dikshit]]||[[Central Drug Research Institute]] |- |2000||[[Anand Kumar Bachhawat]]||[[Institute of Microbial Technology]] |- |2000||[[Amitabha Mukhopadhyay]]||National Institute of Immunology |- |2001||[[Nagendra Kumar Singh]]||Indian Agricultural Research Institute |- |2001||[[Ram Rajasekharan]]||[[Central Food Technological Research Institute]] |- |2001||[[P. N. Rangarajan]]||Indian Institute of Science |- |2001||[[Pradip K. Chakraborti]]||Institute of Microbial Technology |- |2001||[[Akhil Chandra Banerjea]]||National Institute of Immunology |- |2001||[[Vinod Bhakuni]]||Central Drug Research Institute |- |2002||[[M. Radhakrishna Pillai (scientist)]]||[[Regional Cancer Centre, Thiruvananthapuram]] |- |2002||[[Mohammad Islam Khan]]||[[National Chemical Laboratory]] |- |2002||[[Rakesh Kumar Jain]]||Institute of Microbial Technology |- |2002||[[Anil Grover]]||University of Delhi |- |2002||[[Santanu Bhattacharya]]||Indian Institute of Science |- |2002||[[Joyoti Basu]]||[[Bose Institute]] |- |2002||[[Rakesh Aggarwal (gastroenterologist)|Rakesh Aggarwal]]||[[Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences]] |- |2003||[[Usha Vijayaraghavan]]||Indian Institute of Science |- |2003||[[Trilochan Mohapatra]]||Indian Agricultural Research Institute |- |2003||[[Sudhanshu Vrati]]||National Institute of Immunology |- |2003||[[Soniya Nityanand]]||Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences |- |2003||[[Ramesh Venkata Sonti]]||[[Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology]] |- |2003||[[Gopal Kundu|Gopal Chandra Kundu]]||[[National Centre for Cell Science]] |- |2003||[[Chinmoy Sankar Dey]]||[[National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research]] |- |2004||[[Jyoti Prakash Tamang]]||Sikkim Government College, Gangtok |- |2004||[[Banwari Lal (biotechnologist)|Banwari Lal]]||[[The Energy and Resources Institute]] |- |2004||[[K. Sekar]]||Indian Institute of Science |- |2004||[[Narayanaswamy Srinivasan]]||Indian Institute of Science |- |2004||[[Tapas Kumar Kundu]]||[[Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research]] |- |2004||[[Amita Aggarwal]]||Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences |- |2004||[[Geeta Kashyap Vemuganti]]||[[L. V. Prasad Eye Institute]] |- |2005||[[Rajendra Prasad Roy]]||National Institute of Immunology |- |2005||[[Sudip Chattopadhyay]]||National Institute of Plant Genome Research |- |2005||[[Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava]]||Institute of Microbial Technology |- |2005||[[Apurva Sarin]]||[[Tata Institute of Fundamental Research]] |- |2005||[[Dulal Panda]]||[[Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai]] |- |2005||[[Saumitra Das]]||Indian Institute of Science |- |2006||[[G. Pradeep Kumar]]||[[Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology]] |- |2006||[[Ajay Kumar Parida]]||MS Swaminathan Research Foundation |- |2006||[[Pramod P. Wangikar]]||Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai |- |2006||[[G. Taru Sharma]]||[[Indian Veterinary Research Institute]] |- |2006||[[Javed Agrewala|Javed N. Agrewala]]||Institute of Microbial Technology |- |2006||[[Kumaravel Somasundaram]]||Indian Institute of Science |- |2006||[[Sanjeev Galande]]||National Centre for Cell Science |- |2007||[[T. R. Sharma]]||Indian Agricultural Research Institute |- |2007||[[Snehasikta Swarnakar]]||Indian Institute of Chemical Biology |- |2007||[[Srinivasan Ramachandran]]||[[Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology]] |- |2007||[[R. Sowdhamini]]||[[National Centre for Biological Sciences]] |- |2007||[[Ranjan Sen]]||[[Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics]] |- |2007||[[Owais Mohammad]]||[[Aligarh Muslim University]] |- |2007||[[G. Dhinakar Raj]]||[[Madras Veterinary College]] |- |2007||[[Bhaskar Saha]]||National Centre for Cell Science |- |2007||[[Amit Prakash Sharma]]||International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology |- |2008||[[Rajan Sankaranarayanan]]||Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology |- |2008||[[Utpal S. Tatu|Utpal Shashikant Tatu]]||Indian Institute of Science |- |2008||[[Nihar Ranjan Jana]]||[[National Brain Research Centre]] |- |2008||[[R. Sankararamakrishnan]]||[[Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur]] |- |2008||[[Anuranjan Anand]]||Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research |- |2008||[[Samit Kumar Nandi]]||[[West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences]] |- |2008||[[S. Ganesh]]||Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur |- |2008||[[Nagasuma Chandra]]||Indian Institute of Science |- |2008||[[Sangita Mukhopadhyay]]||Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics. |- |2008||[[Pushkar Sharma (medical researcher)|Pushkar Sharma]]||National Institute of Immunology |- |2009||[[Rajesh Sudhir Gokhale]]||Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology |- |2009||[[Mohan R. Wani]]||National Centre for Cell Science |- |2009||[[Garikapati Narahari Sastry]]||Indian Institute of Chemical Technology |- |2009||[[Ashok M. Raichur]]||Indian Institute of Science |- |2009||[[Balaji Prakash]]||Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur |- |2009||[[K. Narayanaswamy Balaji]]||Indian Institute of Science |- |2009||[[Debasisa Mohanty]]||National Institute of Immunology |- |2009||[[Sunil Kumar Manna]]||Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics |- |2009||[[C. Kesavadas]]||[[Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology]] |}
=== Recipients (2009–2019) === {{multiple image|direction=vertical | width = 120 | image1 = Ahmed5.jpg | caption1 = [[Niyaz Ahmed]] | image2 = Vidita Vaidya.jpg | caption2 = [[Vidita Vaidya]] | image3 = Inamdar photo small.jpg | caption3 = [[Maneesha S. Inamdar]] | image4 = Sujata Sharma.jpg | caption4 = [[Sujata Sharma]] | image5 = Kaustuv Sanyal.jpg | caption5 = [[Kaustuv Sanyal]] | image6 = Dr Sanjeev Das.jpg | caption6 = [[Sanjeev Das]] }} {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="width:75%" ! scope="col" style="width:10%" | Year ! scope="col" style="width:25%" | Recipient ! scope="col" style="width:40%" | Institution |- |2010||[[Shantanu Chowdhury]]||Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology |- |2010||[[Balasubramanian Gopal]]||Indian Institute of Science |- |2010||[[R. Ashalatha]]||Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology |- |2010||[[Vinay K. Nandicoori]]||National Institute of Immunology |- |2010||[[Suman Kumar Dhar]]||Jawaharlal Nehru University |- |2010||[[Ravishankar Ramachandran]]||Central Drug Research Institute |- |2010||[[P. Karthe]]||[[University of Madras]] |- |2010||[[Dipshikha Chakravortty]]||Indian Institute of Science |- |2010||[[Debasis Chattopadhyay]]||National Institute of Plant Genome Research |- |2010||[[Anirban Basu]]||National Brain Research Center |- |2011||[[Sagar Sengupta]]||National Institute of Immunology |- |2011||[[Niyaz Ahmed]]||[[University of Hyderabad]] |- |2011||[[Santasabuj Das]]||[[National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases]] |- |2011||[[Ashish Arora]]||Central Drug Research Institute |- |2011||[[Maneesha S. Inamdar]]||Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research |- |2011||[[Asif Mohmmed]]||International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology |- |2011||[[Shantanu Sengupta]]||Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology |- |2011||[[Sujata Sharma]]||[[All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi]] |- |2011||[[Dibyendu Sarkar]]||Institute of Microbial Technology |- |2011||[[Manmohan Parida|M. M. Parida]]||[[Defence Research and Development Establishment]] |- |2012||[[Vidita Vaidya]]||Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |- |2012||[[Sathees Chukkurumbal Raghavan]]||Indian Institute of Science |- |2012||[[Asad Ullah Khan]]||Aligarh Muslim University |- |2012||[[Munia Ganguli]]||Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology |- |2012||[[S. Venkata Mohan]]||[[Indian Institute of Chemical Technology]] |- |2012||[[Durai Sundar]]||[[Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi]] |- |2012||[[Subrata Adak]]||Indian Institute of Chemical Biology |- |2012||[[Aditya Bhushan Pant]]||[[Indian Institute of Toxicology Research]] |- |2012||[[Naval Kishore Vikram]]||All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi |- |2012||[[Kaustuv Sanyal]]||Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research |- |2013||[[Govindan Rajamohan]]||Institute of Microbial Technology |- |2013||[[A. K. Mukherjee]]||[[Tezpur University]] |- |2013||[[Alok Krishna Sinha]]||[[National Botanical Research Institute]] |- |2014||[[Manoj Prasad]]||National Institute of Plant Genome Research |- |2014||[[Bikramjit Basu]]||Indian Institute of Science |- |2014||[[Debasis Dash]]||Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology |- |2014||[[Ashish Suri]]||All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi |- |2014||[[Deepak T. Nair|Deepak Thankappan Nair]]||[[Regional Centre for Biotechnology]] |- |2014||[[Ramandeep Singh (medical scientist)]]||[[Translational Health Science and Technology Institute]] |- |2014||[[Fayaz A. Malik]]||Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine |- |2014||[[Patrick D'Silva]]||Indian Institute of Science |- |2014||[[Deepak Gaur]]||Jawaharlal Nehru University |- |2014||[[Kausik Chattopadhyay]]||[[Indian Institute of Science Education and Research]] |- |2015||[[Sanjeev Das]]||National Institute of Immunology |- |2015||[[Ganesh Nagaraju]]||Indian Institute of Science |- |2015||[[Suvendra Nath Bhattacharyya]]||Indian Institute of Chemical Biology |- |2015||[[H. V. Thulasiram]]||National Chemical Laboratory |- |2015||[[Pawan Gupta]]||Institute of Microbial Technology |- |2015||[[Souvik Maiti]]||Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology |- |2015||[[Pravindra Kumar]]||[[Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee]] |- |2015||[[Anurag Agrawal (medical scientist)|Anurag Agrawal]]||Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology |- |2015||[[Girdhar Kumar Pandey]]||University of Delhi |- |2015||[[Sanjib Senapati]]||Indian Institute of Technology, Madras |- |2016 |Mukesh Jain |Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi |- |2016 |Samir K. Maji |Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai |- |2016 |Anindita Ukil |Calcutta University, Kolkata |- |2016 |Arnab Mukhopadhyay |National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi |- |2016 |[[Rohit Srivastava (scientist)|Rohit Srivastava]] |Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay |- |2016 |Pinaki Talukdar |Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune |- |2016 |Rajnish Kumar Chaturvedi |CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow |- |2016 |Jackson James |[[Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology|Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram]] |- |2017 & 2018 ||[[Manas Kumar Santra]]||[[National Centre for Cell Science]] |- |2017 & 2018 ||[[Dipyaman Ganguly]]||[[Indian Institute of Chemical Biology]] |- |2017 & 2018 ||[[Subhadeep Chatterjee]]||[[Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics]] |- |2017 & 2018 ||[[Soumen Basak]]||[[National Institute of Immunology, India|National Institute of Immunology]] |- |2017 & 2018 ||[[Manoj Majee]]||National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi |- |2017 & 2018 ||[[Arun Kumar Shukla]]||Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur |- |2017 & 2018 ||[[Amit Singh (scientist)|Amit Singh]]||Indian Institute of Science |- |2017 & 2018 ||[[Maddika Subba Reddy]]||Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics |- |2017 & 2018 ||[[Beena Pillai|Beena Ramakrishnan Pillai]]||[[Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology]] |- |2017 & 2018 ||[[Ashwani Kumar (scientist)|Ashwani Kumar]]||[[Institute of Microbial Technology]] |- |2017 & 2018 ||[[Mohammad Zahid Ashraf]]||[[Jamia Millia Islamia]] |- |2017 & 2018 ||[[Ranjith Padinhateeri]]||Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai |- |2017 & 2018 ||[[Suresh Kumar Rayala|Rayala Suresh Kumar]]||Indian Institute of Technology, Madras |- |2017 & 2018 ||[[Prabhu B. Patil]]||Institute of Microbial Technology |- |2017 & 2018 ||[[Pritam Deb]]||[[Tezpur University]] |- |2020-21 ||[[Amit Awasthi ]]||[[Translational Health Science and Technology Institute]] |- |2020-21 ||[[Bushra Ateeq]]||[[Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur]] |}
==See also==
* [[List of biology awards]]
== References == {{reflist}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://dbtindia.gov.in/sites/default/files/NBACDAwardeesfrom1999-2016.pdf|title=N-BIOS Awardees 2016, Department of Biotechnology|website=dbtindia.gov.in/#}}</ref>
== External links == * {{cite web | url=http://www.tezu.ernet.in/news/National-Bioscience-Award.pdf | title=National Bioscience Award – AK Mukherjee | publisher=Tezpur University | date=2016 | access-date=October 18, 2016}}
{{N-BIOS Laureates 1999–2009}} {{N-BIOS Laureates 2010–2019|2016=Mukesh Jain, Samir K. Maji, Anindita Ukil, Arnab Mukhopadhyay, Rohit Srivastava, Pinaki Talukdar, Rajnish Kumar Chaturvedi, Jackson James}}2016 <references group="note" />
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