Dr. Ganesamoorthy, a student of the Department of Chemistry who did  his doctoral work under Prof. M. S. Balakrishna, has been selected for the  first "2009 Eli Lilly Asia Outstanding Thesis Award" (Second Prize),  by the Discovery Chemistry Research and Technologies Division  at Eli Lilly & Company, Indianapolis, USA. He is presently a  postdoctoral fellow at the University of Calgary.