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
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. during 2014–2015.
Education and career
Mandal completed her PhD early on in her career from
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
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, in the area of
bio-organic chemistry. She went on to do post doctoral research at
University of Pennsylvania
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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
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.
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
External links
Cancer Biology & Inflammatory Disorder Division
* https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/csir-indian-institute-of-chemical-biology-scientist-has-28-papers-with-manipulated-duplicated-images/article27697386.ece
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Bengali chemists
Indian women biochemists
Indian Institute of Science alumni