Gold Medal for excellence in Biological Sciences & Technology for the year 2010, instituted by the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) in the memory of Prof G N Ramachandran, was bestowed upon Dr. Dinakar M Salunke in a function held on Sept 26, 2011 in New Delhi. Dr Salunke has been awarded this medal for his outstanding contributions in understanding of the generation of antibody diversity and for elucidating diverse facets of molecular mimicry in the context of humoral immune response.