Awards

SURGE-2025 Awardees

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Dr. Elizabeth and Dr. Verkey Cherian Award for Best Poster

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S. N.	Name of the Participant	Institute Name	Department	Mentor Name	Project Title
1	Mr. Sumit Kumar Gupta	NIT Silchar	Chemistry	Dr. Venkata Suresh Mothika	Fabrication of Blatter Radical Porous Polymer Thin Films: Synthesis and Structural Characterization
2	Mr. Chandan Kumar	IIT Kanpur	Chemistry	Dr. Gurunath Ramanathan	Biodegradation of nitroaromatic using Diaphorobacter sp. DS2 and its genomic variant Diaphorobacter sp. DS2-NT
3	Mr. Arijit Bhattacharyya	IIT Bombay	Chemistry	Dr. Pratik Sen	Mixed Macromolecular Crowding Effects on Protein Stability
4	Mr. Kushagra Tiwari	IIT Kanpur	Chemical Engineering	Dr. Akash Choudhary	Influence of electrolyte gradient orientation on colloid transport in dead-end pores

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Dr. Elizabeth and Dr. Verkey Cherian Award for Best Project

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S. N.	Name of the Participant	Institute Name	Department	Mentor Name	Project Title
1	Mr. Sumit Kumar Gupta	NIT Silchar	Chemistry	Dr. Venkata Suresh Mothika	Fabrication of Blatter Radical Porous Polymer Thin Films: Synthesis and Structural Characterization
2	Mr. Chandan Kumar	IIT Kanpur	Chemistry	Dr. Gurunath Ramanathan	Biodegradation of nitroaromatic using Diaphorobacter sp. DS2 and its genomic variant Diaphorobacter sp. DS2-NT
3	Mr. Arijit Bhattacharyya	IIT Bombay	Chemistry	Dr. Pratik Sen	Mixed Macromolecular Crowding Effects on Protein Stability
4	Mr. Kushagra Tiwari	IIT Kanpur	Chemical Engineering	Dr. Akash Choudhary	Influence of electrolyte gradient orientation on colloid transport in dead-end pores

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Best Project Award for Engineering

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S. N.	Name of the Participant	Institute Name	Department	Mentor Name	Project Title
1	Mr. Kushagra Tiwari	IIT Kanpur	Chemical Engineering	Dr. Akash Choudhary	Influence of electrolyte gradient orientation on colloid transport in dead-end pores

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Best Project Award for Sciences

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S. N.	Name of the Participant	Institute Name	Department	Mentor Name	Project Title
1	Mr. Sumit Kumar Gupta	NIT Silchar	Chemistry	Dr. Venkata Suresh Mothika	Fabrication of Blatter Radical Porous Polymer Thin Films: Synthesis and Structural Characterization
2	Mr. Chandan Kumar	IIT Kanpur	Chemistry	Dr. Gurunath Ramanathan	Biodegradation of nitroaromatic using Diaphorobacter sp. DS2 and its genomic variant Diaphorobacter sp. DS2-NT
3	Mr. Arijit Bhattacharyya	IIT Bombay	Chemistry	Dr. Pratik Sen	Mixed Macromolecular Crowding Effects on Protein Stability

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