AWARDS of Dr Dipankar Das

1. Merit award for Best Paper in the session-FP1 in OSA, Guwahati, Assam, India 2004.

2. Scientific Paper Award (First K R Dutta Award) for 2004 in Ophthalmological Society of Assam meet, Guwahati, Assam, India November 6th – 7th: 2004 “CMV Retinitis: First case report in North East India”.

3. Paper in Uvea and Glaucoma Section at the 37th OSA meet at Nagaon, Assam, India 2005 for the free paper ‘Atypical Ocular Toxoplasmosis’.

4. Co-author in a poster-Optic nerve head drusen in OSA Shillong, India 27-28 Oct, 2006.This was adjusted as Best Poster in the Conference.

5.” Best citizens of India award -2006” by the International Publishing House, New Delhi, INDIA.

6. Co – author/ Principal author of Best Poster in OSA-2008, Dibrugarh, Assam, India -An atypical case of Acute Posterior Multifocal Placcoid Pigment Epitheliopathy (APMPPE) – A case report.

7. Co-author of FP 9 “Ophthalmic Telepathology: Concept and Practice” in Miscellaneous section in (hall J) on 23.1.2010 in AIOS-2010,Kolkata, India. This was adjusted as the Best Paper in that session. Presenting Author: Dr J. Biswas, Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, India.

8. Co-author of best case presentations at “Eye Opener, module 2: Ophthalmic Pathology-PG Education Module organized by CFS, Hyderabad on 28.7.2013. Topic of cases: i. “Masquerade Syndrome: Red flag in leukemia follow-up ii. New rosette in retinoblastoma.

9. Co-author of Best Paper in OSA meet Dibrugarh, 17th and 18th October, 2014 titled "Profile of parasitic uveitis in a tertiary institute of northeast India" Presenting and chief author: Dr Varsha Ramachandra.

10; Received travel fellowship (ICMR) for attending Asia ARVO at Hyderabad, 2009

11. Received travel grant from Doheny Eye Institute, LA, USA to attend ARVO-2011 at Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

12.Received scholarship / sponsorship from USI, India for attending the11 th IOIS meeting at Goa, INDIA

13. Best Poster Award in 14th Annual meeting of Uveitis Society of India meets at Indian Habitat Centre, New-Delhi 22nd-23rd November 2014 on “Parasitic Uveitis“.

14. Received Rs. 5000 as a consolation prize in the National Level Photographic Competition 2014 organized by North Eastern Council, Govt. of India. Category: “Panoramic view of the natural beauty of Northeastern states”.

15. Best free paper award in IX th Ocular Trauma Society of India meet held at Guwahati, INDIA on 31st October and 1st November, 2015. Topic: “Pathological significance of ophthalmic foreign bodies”.

16. Co-author of Best Poster in the 48th OSA-Guwahati-2015; Topic “IgG4 related intraocular lesion masquerading as ciliary body tumour (presenting and chief author- Dr Divya Pandey)

17. Award of achievement for the best anterior segment photography at “ A day with Prof. Amod Gupta” organized by Department of Uvea & Intraocular Inflammation, Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, India on 16.07.2016

18. Nomination for India’s 5000 Best MSME award-2017.

16. Awarded the Best Paper in the “OCULAR PATHOLOGY” at 76th AIOC meet -Coimbatore-2018: (FP 134): Idiopathic orbital inflammation of orbit and ocular adnexa: Histopathological analysis on 15.2.2019

19. Awarded 3rd prize in AIOS photography competition in ‘Fundus Photography Theme’ on World Sight Day on 11.10.2018

20. Awarded “Best of IJO Publications” on 14.2.2020/ 5:30-7:00PM, Hall B at C Dot GNH Convention centre for the paper/ photo essay: Intraocular lens biofilms supported by scanning electron microscopy imaging -Dr Dipankar Das,et al. Indian J Ophthalmol 2019; 67: 1708-9

21.Awarded Runners up and cash prize of Rs 10,000 from ARC-AIOS 2021: “Think under the apple tree”- for innovation: Fluorescein dye as a novel cost effective approach for staining the raw specimens in ophthalmic pathology [Cheque IDBI Bank “ 394987” dated 22.07.2021]

22. BIRAC SITARE-GYTI Award for the innovation to inventors Dr. Surjendu Maity, Shubrdip Ghosh, Tamanna Bhuyan, Dr. Dipankar Das, Prof. Dipankar Bandyopadhyay for Point-of-Care-Testing Devices for Beta 2 microglobin from Human Tear Biomarkers in Diabetes/Diabetic retinopathy

23. Awarded 3rd Prize for innovation: Whats new of Fluorescein stain in ophthalmic pathology? in AIOS INNOVATORS’ Forum (Virtual) meeting on 7.11.2021.