He has several awards/fellowships, like ISCA Young Scientists Award, INSA Visiting Fellowship, UNESCO Fellowship, XVI IUBMB Fellowship, Jawaharlal Nehru Visiting Fellowship, Post-Doc Fellowship, Govt of Japan, INSA International Exchange Fellowship and Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellowship to his credit. His research interest lies in computer-aided designing and development of antiviral molecules against HIV, HPV and JEV and developing fluorescent oligonucleotides for use in the field of molecular biology and diagnostics. He has about a dozen anti-HIV and half-adozen anti-JEV compounds under patent processing. He is on editorial board of several international journals and referee to more than a dozen journals.