Prof. Debarka Sengupta from the Department of Computational Biology at IIIT-Delhi has been honoured with the Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar: Vigyan Yuva–Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar 2025 in Biological Sciences.
The award, among India’s top science and technology honours, is presented by the President of India to recognise outstanding achievements in research and innovation.
Prof. Sengupta received the award for his groundbreaking research on large-scale tissue analysis and the discovery of rare cell types using single-cell transcriptomics. According to IIIT-Delhi, his work highlights how data, biology, and artificial intelligence can together transform the way diseases are treated.