Shekhar C. Mande is Structural and Computational Biologist. He was the Director General of the

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (IAST: ''vaigyanik tathā audyogik anusandhāna pariṣada''), abbreviated as CSIR, was established by the Government of India in September 1942 as an autonomous body that has emerged as the l ...

(CSIR), India, and the Secretary of the

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(DSIR),

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. Prior to this, he was the Director of

National Centre for Cell Science The National Centre for Cell Science is a National Level, Biotechnology, Tissue Engineering and Tissue Banking research center located on the campus of University of Pune in Pune, India. The institute formerly known as National Facility for Anima ...

, Pune. He was awarded in 2005 the

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is a science award in India given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, Applied science, applied or Fundamenta ...

, the highest science award in

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, in the Biological sciences category.

Early life and education

Mande completed his M.Sc. in

Physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

from

University of Nagpur Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University (RTMNU), formerly Nagpur University, is a public state university located in Nagpur, Maharashtra. It is one of India's oldest universities, as well as the second oldest in Maharashtra. It is named a ...

in 1984. In 1991, he earned his

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Molecular Biophysics Molecular biophysics is a rapidly evolving interdisciplinary area of research that combines concepts in physics, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and biology. It seeks to understand biomolecular systems and explain biological function in terms ...

, from the

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is a public, deemed, research university for higher education and research in science, engineering, design, and management. It is located in Bengaluru, in the Indian state of Karnataka. The institute was ...

. Following his PhD, he joined Wim G. J. Hol as

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Rijksuniversiteit Groningen The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; nl, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, abbreviated as RUG) is a public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen in the Netherlands. Founded in 1614, the university is th ...

in the

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Career

Mande began his career at Dec 1995 at the Institute of Microbial Technology in Chandigarh. In September 2001, he moved to

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Hyderabad Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and the ''de jure'' capital of Andhra Pradesh. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part ...

as a senior staff scientist. Between September 2011 and September 2018 He served as director at

Pune Pune (; ; also known as Poona, (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name from 1818 until 1978) is one of the most important industrial and educational hubs of India, with an estimated population of 7.4 million ...

. He has served on many national and international committees including the scientific advisory committee of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Trieste, Italy; Management Council of the

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) is a public deemed research university located in Mumbai, India that is dedicated to basic research in mathematics and the sciences. It is a Deemed University and works under the umbrella of the D ...

(TIFR), Mumbai, Member of the Council of

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, Bangalore; member of the Management Councils of the

Solapur University Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Holkar Solapur University is a state university located in Solapur, Maharashtra, India. Formerly it was postgraduate centre of Shivaji University. Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Holkar Solapur University was established on 1 Augu ...

and the

Savitribai Phule Pune University Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU), formerly the University of Poona, is a collegiate public state university located in the city of Pune, India. It was established in 1949, and is spread over a campus in the neighbourhood of Ganeshk ...

; member of the Governing Body of the Indo-French Centre for Promotion of Advanced Research (CEFIPRA), etc. Currently he chairs the Governing Board of the National Council of Science Museums. He is also the National President of Vijnana Bharati, a large voluntary science movement in India with Swadeshi spirit. Prior to moving to Delhi in October 2018 to handle

portfolios, Mande served on many advisory committees in Government Departments. Until December 2019, he served as the chair the National Committee for the

International Union of Crystallography The International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) is an organisation devoted to the international promotion and coordination of the science of crystallography. The IUCr is a member of the International Council for Science (ICSU). Objectives ...

for the

Indian National Science Academy The Indian National Science Academy (INSA) is a national academy in New Delhi for Indian scientists in all branches of science and technology. In August 2019, Dr. Chandrima Shaha was appointed as the president of Indian National Science Academ ...

, New Delhi.

Research highlights

*Structural Biologist and

X-ray Crystallographer X-ray crystallography is the experimental science determining the atomic and molecular structure of a crystal, in which the crystalline structure causes a beam of incident X-rays to diffract into many specific directions. By measuring the angles ...

*Structural characterization of

Mycobacterium tuberculosis ''Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (M. tb) is a species of pathogenic bacteria in the family Mycobacteriaceae and the causative agent of tuberculosis. First discovered in 1882 by Robert Koch, ''M. tuberculosis'' has an unusual, waxy coating on its c ...

proteins *Computational analysis of genome-wide protein:protein interactions.

Prizes and honours

*B M Birla Young Scientist Award (1999) *

Wellcome Trust The Wellcome Trust is a charitable foundation focused on health research based in London, in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1936 with legacies from the pharmaceutical magnate Henry Wellcome (founder of one of the predecessors of Glaxo ...

International Senior Fellow, 2003–08 *

(2005) *Fellow, Indian National Science Academy New Delhi, Elected 2010 *Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad, India, Elected 2003 *Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, Elected 2003 *BC Guha Memorial Lecture of the Indian National Science Academy, 2017 *BK Bachhawat Memorial Lecture of the National Academy of Science, India, 2017 *Bharat Asmita Award of MIT-World Peace University, Pune (2019) *HK Firodia Vijnan Bhushan Award (2020) *Aryabhatta Medal of the Indian National Science Academy, 2021

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mande, Shekhar C. Living people 1962 births 20th-century Indian biologists Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences Indian crystallographers Indian Institute of Science alumni Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University alumni University of Groningen alumni University of Washington staff Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Biological Science