Awarded CEDA fellowship to carry out training in Gut immune responses in amoebiasis at University of Mac Gill, Mac Donald College, Canada (1981)

Best oral presentation award at the 3rd Asian conference on diarrheal diseases, Bangkok, Thailand (1985).

Awarded NIH Fogetty fellowship to carry out the Post-doctoral research at University of Pennsylvania, USA (1986-1988).

Awarded CONACYT International Visiting Professorship for the year 1994 –95 to work at CINVESTAV Mexico.

Knoll Gastroenterology Oration Award for the Year 1998.

Recipient of UNESCO-IUMS-MIRCENS-SGM Award for the year 2000-2001 to work at the Laboratory of Dr. Rodney Adam, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.