The Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award

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The Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award (IYBA), initiated in 2005, is a career-oriented prize to identify and nurture outstanding young scientists with innovative ideas and desire of pursuing research in biotechnology. The prize is for those below 35 years of age. This includes scientists without regular employment.

Qualification

The applicant must have a PhD in any branch of Life Sciences, Computational Sciences (applied to Biotechnology, Medicine or Biological Sciences), Veterinary Sciences, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Agricultural Sciences. Master degree holders in Medicine or Dentistry (MD/MS/MDS or IMC designated equivalent) and Engineering/Technology (M.Tech or AICTE designated equivalent) are also eligible to apply.

Experience

Cumulative publication of 6 as first or corresponding author or two granted Indian patents or one granted International patent.

To Apply

For more details on application procedure, click here.

Duration

The duration of the project will normally be for a period of three years subject to satisfactory progress. In cases where very significant and exciting results have been obtained that require further elucidation, the committee of experts can recommend the duration of the project to be extended by two more years and thus a maximum period of five years.

Money

The award shall cover both non-recurring and recurring financial grants for performing and executing the innovative research plan proposed by the awardee. This includes equipment, computational and communication facilities, consumables, contingencies and travel will be covered as required for the research project. In addition a fellowship of Rs. 75,000/- per month will be admissible for awardees who do not have regular employment or are not drawing any other fellowship. If during the course of the project, the awardee finds a regular employment or receives any other fellowship, the awardee should immediately inform the fact to the DBT and the monthly payment of fellowship from the subsequent month onward will be discontinued. In this situation the awardees will receive Rs. 1.00 lakh cash award per annum similar to the awardees those are in regular employment. Awardees having a regular employment will receive a cash award of Rs. 1.00 lakh every year during the course of the project in addition to the equipment and other recurring grants except the fellowship amount.

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