Khorana Program for Scholars Awards: 2020
The Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India, Indo-U.S. Science and Technology
Forum (IUSSTF) and WINStep Forward (WSF) are pleased to announce the list* of candidates
selected for the prestigious Khorana Program for Scholars 2020.
Sr. Name Parent Institution
No
1 Akanksha Bhat Indian Institute of Science
Education and Research
(IISER), Thiruvananthapuram
2 Chandana Surya Suma Dr. Y.S.R. Horticultural
Tirumalaraju University, Andhra Pradesh
3 Chinmay Satish Haridas Shri Vasantrao Naik
Government Medical College,
Yavatmal
4 Dhwani Kalpeshkumar National Institute of
Rana Pharmaceutical Education
and Research Ahmedabad
5 Disha Kashyap University of Delhi, Delhi
6 Faisal Jamal Aligarh Muslim University,
Uttar Pradesh
7 Gaurav Seth Indian Institute of Technology
Banaras Hindu University,
Varanasi
8 Harsh Thakur Regional Centre for
Biotechnology, Faridabad
9 Harshith Nagaraj Indian Institute of Science,
Bengaluru
10 Kartik Majila Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi
11 Mahak Bhargava National Institute of
Technology Rourkela, Orissa
12 Mitali Kishor Patil Centre for Human Genetics,
Bengaluru
13 Neelima P V University of Mumbai-DAE
Centre for Excellence in Basic
Sciences, Mumbai
14 Ojaswi Biswas KIIT University, Bhubaneswar
15 Pankhuri Sinha Indian Institute of
Technology, Gandhi Nagar
16 Prashant Govindarajan Indian Institute of
Technology, Madras
17 Pulkit Deshmukh Indian Institute of
Technology, Kanpur
U.S. Host Institution
The University of Texas at
Austin, TX
Washington State
University, Pullman, WA
Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA
St. John's University, New
York, NY
Yale University, West Haven,
CT
Purdue University, West
Lafayette, IN
University of California, Los
Angeles, CA
Yale University, New Haven,
CT
University of Wisconsin-
Madison, Madison, WI
University of Wisconsin-
Madison, Madison, WI
Indiana University,
Indianapolis, IN
Stanford University,
Stanford, CA
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, MA
Yale University, West Haven,
CT
University of Chicago,
Chicago, IL
Yale University, New Haven,
CT
Cornell University, Ithaca,
NY
Sr. Name Parent Institution U.S. Host Institution
No
18 Rajat Ajay Thakur VIT University, Vellore University of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, PA

19 Roshan Pathitharayil Indian Institute of Stanford University,

Mathews Technology, Palakkad Stanford, CA
20 Rushikesh Balkrishna Birla Institute of Technology Harvard Medical School,
Zawar and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan Boston, MA
21 Sachin G Swamy Yuvaraja's College University of California,
(Autonomous), University of Berkeley, CA
Mysore, Mysore
22 Saksham Gupta Delhi Technological Yale University School of
University, New Delhi Medicine, New Haven, CT
23 Sanchit Sood Indian Institute of Georgetown University,
Technology, Kharagpur Washington, D.C

24 Saranya V A.C. College of Technology Massachusetts Institute of

Campus, Anna University, Technology, Cambridge, MA
Chennai
25 Sarthak Satpathy University of Hyderabad, Stanford University Medical
Telangana Center, Stanford, CA

26 Sayan Mondal Madurai Kamaraj University, University of Michigan

Madurai Medical School, Ann Arbor,
MI

27 Shafnaz M Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Georgetown University,

Biotechnology, Washington, DC
Thiruvananthapuram
28 Shakir Md Madurai Kamaraj University, Yale School of Medicine,
Madurai West Haven, CT

29 Shivani Rajoriya Jawaharlal Nehru University, The Ohio State University,

New Delhi Columbus, OH
30 Shweta Mishra Amity University, Noida University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, IL
31 Sree Kavya Penneru University of Hyderabad, University of Tennessee,
Telangana Knoxville, TN
32 Swetha Nagarajan SASTRA University, Rice University, Houston, TX
Thanjavur
33 Tabitha Grace Royal Birla Institute of Technology University of California, San
and Science, Hyderabad Diego, CA
34 Tanya Jaiswal Heritage Institute of Yale School of Medicine,
Technology, Kolkata West Haven, CT
35 Tanya Subash Christian Medical College, Northwestern University,
Vellore Evanston, IL

*Note: An updated and final list would be announced by end-March 2020.