The Student Fellowship Program’ is designed to encourage trans-disciplinary research in AYUSH systems and aims to encourage students from different backgrounds to undertake master dissertation projects on subjects related to AYUSH. Every year ten fellowships are awarded to Master’s students from any discipline who are in the 2nd or 3rd Semester of their course. Selected students are given a consolidated fellowship of INR.28, 000/- and a certificate after successful completion of the approved research project. The selected fellows also get complementary registration for the workshops and conferences organized by AYUSH CoE during the academic year.

PROJECTS SELECTED FOR FELLOWSHIP DURING 2018-2019 (YEAR I)

PROJECTS SELECTED FOR FELLOWSHIP DURING 2019-20 (YEAR II)

Currently the Student Fellowship Program is in its third year and the following students have been selected for the Fellowship

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE PROGRAM

YEAR I (2018-19)

1. Sadiya Sheikh receive the first prize in the Dr V P Bhapkar Memorial State Level Project Competition under the Samarth Bharat Abhiyan for her project.
2. Vishadeep Mane was selected for the oral presentation titled ‘Reconnoitring the endophytic microbial community structure before and throughout the course of fermentation of in Asvagandharishta: An Ayurvedic preparation of Withania somnifera L. (Dunal)’ at the Annual Meeting 2019 of British Ecological Society in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

YEAR II (2019-20)

1. Aishwarya Medhekar presented the poster “Potential herb drug interaction among ayurvedic medicine used in Type 2 Diabetes” at the International Conference on AYUSH for Future Health Challenges conducted by AYUSH CoE, Savitribai Phule Pune University.
2. Kanchan Bajaj presented the poster “Exploration of the endophytic microbial community and microflora of Asvagandharishta with respect to fermentation and aging” at the International Conference on AYUSH for Future Health Challenges conducted by AYUSH CoE, Savitribai Phule Pune University.
3. Kiran Hendre presented a poster “Development and validation of nasal cycle assessment tool” at YANTRA 2020 at NIMHANS Bengaluru.
4. Manali Bagade presented the poster “Screening the effect of Plumbagin from Lal Chitrak on osteoblast cells” at the International Conference on AYUSH for Future Health Challenges conducted by AYUSH CoE, Savitribai Phule Pune University.
5. Pranav Shukla presented the poster “Efficient Information Retrieval and Knowledge Discovery for Ayurveda Texts” at the International Conference on AYUSH for Future Health Challenges conducted by AYUSH CoE, Savitribai Phule Pune University. He also attended the 6^th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium at IIT Kharagpur.
6. Snigdha Nadagouda presented the poster “Integrating Ayurveda with modern medicine to combat cancer: Combinatorial effect of in situ synthesized phytonanoparticles using Tinospora cordifolia extract on cancer cells and understanding extracellular matrix stiffness response to Ayurvedic medicine” at the International Conference on AYUSH for Future Health Challenges conducted by AYUSH CoE, Savitribai Phule Pune University.