New Delhi: Prof Debarka Sengupta from the Department of Computational Biology at the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi ( IIIT-Delhi ), has been awarded the Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar : Vigyan Yuva-Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar 2025 in Biological Sciences.

The award, one of India's highest national honours in science and technology, is presented by the president of India to recognise exceptional contributions in research, innovation and technological advancement.

Prof Sengupta was selected for his pioneering work in large-scale analysis of tissue heterogeneity and the discovery of rare cell populations using single-cell transcriptomics, an official statement of IIIT-D said on Tuesday.

His integration of genomics with artificial intelligence (AI) models has advanc

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