Chitra Mandal
Chitra Mandal | |
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Born | 1951 |
Nationality | Indian |
Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania IISC Bangalore |
Awards | JC Bose National Fellowship |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | CSIR Indian Institute of Chemical Research |
Chitra Mandal is a chemical biologist in the field of biomolecules and their applications in health and diseases. Later she worked on cancer therapeutics. She served as the acting Director of CSIR - Indian Institute of Chemical biology in Kolkata, India.[citation needed] during 2014–2015.
Education and career
Mandal completed her PhD early on in her career from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in the area of bio-organic chemistry.[citation needed] She went on to do post doctoral research at University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Returning to India, she joined and serve CSIR-IICB as a senior scientist. Later she went on to head the Innovation Complex in Kolkata, and then its Director from 2010 to 2015. Her research area is mainly the glycosylation of biomolecules and their potential application in disease management, cancer and tumor immunology.[1] The lab is also investigating low cost healthcare solutions using medicinal plants indigenous to India, for example, the identification of a non-toxic herbal molecule in cancer cell treatments.
References
- ^ "Welcome to CSIR - Indian Institute of Chemical Biology". iicb.res.in. Archived from the original on 5 June 2017. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
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