Rakesh Singh, a senior postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Akash Gunjan, Ph.D., has been awarded the prestigious Ramanujan Fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India.

According to Gunjan, assistant professor in Biomedical Sciences, Singh’s fellowship carries a salary support equivalent to $1,500 per month and a travel allowance of $10,000 per year for five years. Singh can use it to supplement his independent research on the role of ubiquitin ligases in genome stability at any institute or university in India.

“These fellowships are extremely competitive,” Gunjan said, “and only about 35 are awarded each year. To be considered one of the top 35 young minds in the area of science and technology among the current Indian population of 1.2 billion people is indeed a remarkable feat, and Rakesh deserves our heartiest congratulations!”