Mr. Shivam, PhD scholar working with Dr. Samrat Chatterjee has received a certificate of appreciation and a cash prize of INR 10,000 from DST- Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating Research (AWSAR)-2021, for his story “Cancer: The Enigmatic Grandmaster." His story was amongst the top 100 popular science stories in the PhD category of DST-AWSAR.