Awards and Honours
For his achievements, he received many awards, including the Griffith Memorial Prize of the University of Calcutta, the Minto Medal by the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (1921) and the Sir William Jones Medal by the Asiatic Society of Bengal.
He was awarded the title of Rai Bahadur and awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal, 1st Class by the Governor General Lord Lytton (1924), In 1934, he was conferred a Knighthood by the British Government (1934)
Brahmachari was a nominee for the Nobel Prize in 1929 in the category of physiology and medicine. He was president of the 23rd session of the Indian Science Congress in Indore (1936). He was the President of the Indian Chemical Society, Calcutta (1936). He was honored with the fellowships of the Royal Society of Medicine, London and the National Institute of Sciences of India as well as the President of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for two years (1928–29). He was also the Vice-Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Indian Museum.
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation renamed Loudon Street as Dr. U.N. Brahmachari Street.
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