Awards
In 2002, he was named a Frederick E. Terman Fellow as well as an MIT Technology Review TR100. The following year, he was awarded the Henry and Camile Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar award. In 2004, he received a Technovator award in the Biotech/Med/Healthcare category by Global Indus Technovators, a MIT-based group, for their recognition of his work at "the cutting-edge of technology that may be harnessed for far-reaching applications." In 2006, Pande was also awarded the 2006 Irving Sigal Young Investigator Award from the Protein Society "for his unique approach to employing advances in algorithms that make optimal use of distributed computing, which places his efforts at the cutting edge of simulations. The results have stimulated a re-examination of the meaning of both ensemble and single-molecule measurements, making Dr. Pande's efforts pioneering contributions to simulation methodology." Two years later, he was named a Netxplorateur of 2008 for "seeking to analyze and understand protein folding (assembly), a little understood process that is fundamental to virtually all of biology." He was also given the Thomas Kuhn Paradigm Shift Award and became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2008. Dr. Pande also received the 2012 Michael and Kate Bárány Award for "developing field-defining and field-changing computational methods to produce leading theoretical models for protein and RNA folding." He's one of only two people to win both the Protein Society Young Investigator Award and the Biophysical Society Young Investigator award.
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