37th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry (CRSI-NSC-37) and CRSI-ACS Lecture Series

July 2–4, 2026

IACS KOLKATA

Celebrating 150 Years of IACS

CRSI Award Winners

Gold Medal
S.R Gadre, Pune University

Silver Medals
Daya Shankar Pandey, BHU
Sankar P. Rath, IIT Kanpur

CRSI Medal (NRI)
Murthy S. Gudipati, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

C.N.R. Rao National Prize
Alakesh Bisai, IISER Kolkata

Charusita Chakraborty Memorial Award Lecture
Durba Sengupta, NCL Pune

A.V. Rama Rao Prize for Women
Bimlesh Lochab, Shiv Nadar University
S. Velmathi, NIT Trichy

Bronze Medals
Ajay Venugopal, IISER Trivandrum
Pankaj Chauhan, IIT Jammu
Aloke Das, IISER Pune
Rajarshi Samanta, IIT Kharagpur
Arunabha Thakur, Jadavpur University
Ramendra Sundar Dey, INST Mohali
Chandi Charan Malakar, NIT Manipur
Rupam Dinda, NIT Rourkela
Debapratim Das, IIT Guwahati
Sabuj Kundu, IIT Kanpur
Sathish M, CEECRI, Karaikudi

CRSI-ACS Lecture Series

Erick Carreira
Editor in Chief, JACS
ETH Zürich
Sébastien Lecommandoux
Editor in Chief, Biomacromolecules
University of Bordeaux, France
Jayanta Haldar
Editor in Chief, ACS Infectious Diseases
JNCASR India
Mary Chan-Park
Associate Editor, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
NTU, Singapore
Durga Prasad Hari
IISc, Bangalore

Special Lecture

Nikoletta B. Báthori
President SACI

Other Symposium Speakers

Harapriya Rath, IACS Kolkata
Pranab Sarkar, Visva-Bharati
Samit Guha, Jadavpur University
Mijanur Rahaman Molla, Calcutta University
Nanda Dulal Paul, BESU
Swati De, Kalyani University
Bhaskar Biswas, University of North Bengal