Award for being consistently meritorious in high school. 1990, St. Gabriel’s High School, Warangal, India
Top rank (99 percentile - 192 rank) in EAMCET - statewide engineering common entrance test, AP, India, 1996, AP State Entrance Board, for entrance to premier engineering colleges
Obtained a high score (1320/1600) in quantitative and analytical sections in paper version GRE, 1998, Educational Testing Service ETS, USA
Merit-based tuition scholarship for masters in biomedical engineering, WPI, USA, 2001
Mentor-based fellowship, American Diabetes Association, USA, 2002
Merit-based doctoral fellowship at Penn State University, National Institutes of Health NIH, USA, 2002.
COSAT summer fellowship, Neutrogena, Johnson and Johnson Inc, USA, 2003
Teaching with technology certificate, the graduate school of the Pennsylvania State University, USA, 2008
Graduate school teaching certificate, the graduate school of the Pennsylvania State University, 2008
Global Centers of Excellence GCOE Fellowship, Osaka University, Japan, 2010
Goethe University Clinic Foundation Award, Goethe University Medical School, Germany, 2011
Chair, Gordon Research Seminars (GRS), Barriers of the CNS, Gordon Research Conferences (GRC), USA, 2012
Editorial board member for the Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism (JCBFM), 2014
Shortlisted for Excellence Cluster Cardio-Pulmonary Science Young Faculty, Max Planck Institute for Heart & Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany, 2015
Sphingonet Young Investigator Award, Sphingonet Consortium, Leducq Foundation, USA, 2016
Senior author paper selected for cover page with commentary, Journal of Neurochemistry, USA, 2018
The Mildred-Scheel-Nachwuchszentrum young faculty nomination, The Mildred - Scheel- Nachwuchszentrum, Frankfurt, Germany, 2019
Chosen as PI for SFB DFG consortium grant application, Center for Personalized Translational Epilepsy Research (CEPTER), Frankfurt, Germany 2022