recognition Awarded a Punjab University gold medal for first position in Diploma in Gandhian Philosophy. Awarded a Biotechnology Career Fellowship in 1986 by the Rockefeller Foundation to work at the Max-Planck Institute in Cologne. In 2004 he was awarded Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship which he could not avail due to his administrative responsibilities. Elected member of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, India, Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy. Member Governing body of CSIR. Member editorial board of Journal of Biosciences and Current Science. Member of various Project Advisory Committees in DST and DBT from 1986 onwards. Member of RAC of CIMAP and IHBT In 2007 he was awarded ‘Officier Des Palmes Academiques‘ for contributions to Research and Education by the Government of Republic of France. Lifetime Achievement Award by Mahindra Samriddhi Foundation in 2018 References External links Vice Chancellor page Delhi University http://ictpi08.in/uploads/downloads/DeepakPental.pdf Rutgers University alumni 1951 births Living people Vice-Chancellors of the University of Delhi Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy Fellows of The National Academy of Sciences, India Fellows of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences 20th-century Indian biologists Indian geneticists