Chitra Mandal
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. during 2014-2015.
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Nationality | Indian |
Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania IISC Bangalore |
Awards | JC Bose National Fellowship |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | CSIR Indian Institute of Chemical Research |
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. 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 2010-2015. 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.