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Patents
Patent for development of serovar specific monoclonal antibody to Chlamydia trachomatis (File no. 792/Del/2003 and is in the process of going to the industry).
Patent filed for development of primary cervical epithelial cell line from cervical lavage (File no. 44/Del/2010).
Patent filed for development of dot-blot assay for prognosis of sequelae to Chlamydia trachomatis infection in women using chlamydial heat shock protein 60 (File no. 186/Del/2008).
Awarded US Patent No. 6,855,522 for "Species-specific PCR assay for detection of Leishmania donovani in clinical samples of kala-azar and post kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis".
US patent no. 20060240046 for "Live attenuated Leishmania vaccines".
Patent filed for a culture system for the growth of stem cells (File No. 2086/DEL / 2009).
 
Award/ Honours/ Fellowship
Dr. Sunita Saxena received K.C. Basu Mullik Award for 2008 by Indian Association of Pathologists and Microbiologists at Chennai for Best Research Work “Study of molecular functional pathways associated with esophageal cancer in North East India.
Dr. Poonam Salotra received Basanti Devi Amir Chand Award for the year 2006 conferred by Indian Council of Medical Research in July 2007.
Dr. Poonam Salotra received Prof. BK Aikat Oration Award for the year 2004 conferred by Indian Council of Medical Research awarded in July 2007.
Dr. Poonam Salotra elected Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, in the year 2008.
Dr. Poonam Salotra invited by WHO as member of Expert Committee for Leishmaniasis control, TDR- WHO in 2009.
Paper entitled “Ultrastructural studies in mice tail model of psoriasis” by Dr. AK Jain was conferred best oral paper in Biological Science Category at National Conference on Electron Microscopy and XXX Annual Meeting of Electron Microscope Society of India, Bundelkhand University, Jhansi in January 17-20, 2009.
Ms. Abha Soni SRF and Ph.D. student won Best Poster Award in “XXXIII Annual Conference of the ISHG and International Symposium on Genetics Revisited: The Genomics and Proteomics Advantage” held in Visakhapatnam from 11th to 13th Feb. 2008. Poster Title: What Androgen Receptor CAG repeats polymorphism and p53 mutations/polymorphisms have to do with prostate cancer risk and progression?

Author(s): A. Soni, A. Bansal, N.K. Mohanty, S. Saxena.
Ms. Mishi, SRF and Ph.D. student won Best Poster award on “Assessment of breast cancer risk: Genotype polymorphism in estrogen synthesizing and metabolizing genes and their contribution in breast cancer susceptibility” at 27th Annual Convention of Indian Association for Cancer Research - Networking Research to Applications & International Symposium on Frontiers in Functional Genomics at Ahmedabad from 6th – 9th February 2008.
Mr. Paresh Sharma, PhD student and SRF received the Best Poster Presentation Award at the National Conference on Emerging Trends in Life Sciences Research held at BITS –Pilani in March 2009.
Mr. Rishen Gupta, PhD student and SRF received the Best Oral Presentation award at the National Conference on Emerging Trends in Life Sciences Research held at BITS –Pilani in March  2009.
Dr. Sunita Saxena, Director, IOP was awarded the Novartis Oration Award for research in the field of Cancer by  ICMR for the year 2006 on 18th Sept. 2009.
Dr. Aruna Mittal, Dy. Director (Sr. Grade) was awarded ICMR Lala Ram Chand Kandhari Award for research in the field of Chlamydia trachomatis  by ICMR for the year 2007 on 18th Sept. 2009.
Dr. Sunita Saxena, Director, IOP, elected Fellow of National Academy of Medical Sciences, India, 2010.