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Sangita Mukhopadhyay
Born(1966-01-01)1 January 1966(age 58)
Khargapur,Madhya Pradesh,India
NationalityIndian
Alma mater
Known forStudies onimmunosuppression
Awards
  • 1993 Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund Award
  • 1996 IIS Apeeza Trust Award
  • 2003DSTYoung Scientist Award
  • 2003 Third World Women Scientist Grant Award
  • 2004ISCAYoung Women Bioscientist Award
  • 2007DBTNational Young Woman Bioscientist Award
  • 2008N-BIOS Prize
  • 2008 Woman Bioscientist Award
  • 2011ICMRBasanti Devi Amir Chand Prize
  • 2015ICMRChaturvedi Ghanshyam Das Jaigopal Meemorial Award
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions

Sangita Mukhopadhyay(born 1 January 1966) is an Indian molecular cell biologist, immunologist and the head of the molecular biology group at theCentre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics.Known for her studies onimmunosuppressionand infection biology, Mukhopadhyay is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies namely theIndian National Science Academy,theIndian Academy of Sciencesand theNational Academy of Sciences, India.TheDepartment of Biotechnologyof the Government of India awarded her theNational Bioscience Award for Career Development,one of the highest Indian science awards, for her contributions to biosciences in 2008.

Biography

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Utkal University - main gate

Born on theNew Year's Dayof 1966 atKhargapurin the Indian state ofMadhya Pradesh,[1]Sangita Mukhopadhyay completed her MSc with a gold medal and did her doctoral studies at theRegional Medical Research Center, Bhubaneswarwhich fetched her a Phd fromUtkal Universityin 1998 for her thesis onimmunoregulationinfilariasis.[2]Subsequently, she did the post-doctoral work at theNational Institute of Immunologyand, later, in U.S.A. at theUniversity of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.[3]On her return to India, she joined theCentral Drug Research Institutein 1999 and after a short stint, moved to theCentre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics(CDFD). She later became the head of the Molecular Biology Group at the Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology of the institute and holds the position of a Grade IV staff scientist. At her laboratory, she hosts many research scholars who are involved in the studies in the disciplines ofcell signalingandsignal transduction,immunity,macrophage biologyandtuberculosis.[4]

Mukhopadhyay resides atJamia Osmania,a suburb ofHyderabadinTelangana.[5]

Legacy

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CDC Tuberculosis (TB) Transmission and Pathogenesis Video

Mukhopadhyay's research focus is on the molecular study of theimmune responses signaling networkscaused by thepathogens.[6]During her post-doctoral days, she worked on the immunological studies ofmacrophage signaling pathways and regulation ofT cellfunctionsand elucidated how the macrophage effector-APC functions were affected by the enzyme,bruton's tyrosine kinase(Btk).[3]Later, concentrating on thepathogenesisoftuberculosis,she identified severalPE/PPE family proteins ofMycobacterium tuberculosis,the causative pathogen of tuberculosis, and described the roles of two such proteins; her findings have reportedly assisted in developing new diagnostic tools, drug targets and therapeutic protocols. Her studies have been documented by way of a number of articles[7][note 1]andResearchGate,an online repository of scientific articles has listed 45 of them.[8]Besides, she has also contributed chapters to books published by others.[9]

Mukhopadhyay is a member of the Task Force on Infectious Disease Biology of the Department of Biotechnology of India[10]and is a life member of the Indian Immunology Society,[11]the Molecular Immunology Forum, India and theIndian Science Congress Association.[12]She has undertaken several research projects for agencies such as the Department of Biotechnology of India, theIndian Council of Medical Research,theDepartment of Science and TechnologyandThe World Academy of Sciences.[6]She has also served as a reviewer for various journals includingBMC Hematology,aBioMed Centralpublication.[13]

Awards and honors

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Mukhopadhyay received the Jawahralal Nehru Memorial Fund Award in 1993 for academic excellence and the Apeeza Trust Award of the Indian Immunology Society in 1996.[3]She has received two Young Scientist Awards, the Best Best Young Scientist Award of the Indian Immunology Society in 1997 and the Young Scientist Award of theDepartment of Science and Technologyin 2003.[2]The next year, she received the 2004 Young Women Bioscientist of Promise Award of theIndian Science Congress Association.[3]TheDepartment of Biotechnology(DBT) of the Government of India awarded her the National Young Woman Bioscientist Award in 2007[14]and a year later, DBT honored her again with theNational Bioscience Award for Career Development,one of the highest Indian science awards in 2008.[15]She has received two awards from theIndian Council of Medical Research;the Basanti Devi Amir Chand Prize in 2011[16]and the Chaturvedi Ghanshyam Das Jaigopal Memorial Award in 2015.[17]

TheNational Academy of Sciences, Indiaelected her as a fellow in 2010[18]and she received the elected fellowship of theIndian Academy of Sciencesin 2013.[19]In 2016, theIndian National Science Academyalso elected her as a fellow.[20]She is also an elected fellow of theAmerican Society of Hematologyand theAmerican Association of Immunologistsand a former overseas associate of theDepartment of Biotechnology(2005).[3]The award orations delivered by her include the Kanishka Oration of theIndian Council of Medical Research.[21]She is also a recipient of the women scientist research grant ofThe World Academy of Scienceswhich she received in 2003.[3]

Selected bibliography

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  • Bhat, Khalid Hussain; Mukhopadhyay, Sangita (1 May 2015). "Macrophage takeover and the host–bacilli interplay during tuberculosis".Future Microbiology.10(5): 853–872.doi:10.2217/fmb.15.11.ISSN1746-0913.PMID26000654.
  • Mukhopadhyay, Sangita; Nair, Shiny; Ghosh, Sudip (1 March 2012)."Pathogenesis in tuberculosis: transcriptomic approaches to unraveling virulence mechanisms and finding new drug targets".FEMS Microbiology Reviews.36(2): 463–485.doi:10.1111/j.1574-6976.2011.00302.x.ISSN0168-6445.PMID22092372.
  • Mukhopadhyay, Sangita; Balaji, Kithiganahalli Narayanaswamy (2011). "The PE and PPE proteins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis".Tuberculosis.91(5): 441–447.doi:10.1016/j.tube.2011.04.004.PMID21527209.

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^Please seeSelected bibliographysection

References

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  1. ^"Fellow profile".Indian Academy of Sciences. 16 January 2018.Retrieved16 January2018.
  2. ^ab"Faculty profile".Centre for DNA Fingerprinting & Diagnostics.17 January 2018.Retrieved17 January2018.
  3. ^abcdef"Indian fellow".Indian National Science Academy. 12 January 2018.Retrieved12 January2018.Archived18 January 2018 at theWayback Machine
  4. ^"Sangita Group".www.cdfd.org.in.Retrieved18 January2018.
  5. ^"NASI fellows".National Academy of Sciences, India. 12 January 2018.Retrieved12 January2018.Archived26 July 2013 at theWayback Machine
  6. ^ab"Molecular Cell Biology -: Research".www.cdfd.org.in.18 January 2018.Retrieved18 January2018.
  7. ^"On Google Scholar".Google Scholar. 8 January 2018.Retrieved8 January2018.
  8. ^"On ResearchGate".9 January 2018.Retrieved9 January2018.
  9. ^M.N.V. Prasad; Paulo Jorge de Campos Favas; Subodh Kumar Maiti (10 January 2018).Bio-Geotechnologies for Mine Site Rehabilitation.Elsevier Science. pp. 12–.ISBN978-0-12-812987-6.
  10. ^"Task Force on Infectious Disease Biology"(PDF).Department of Biotechnology of India.2014.Retrieved18 January2018.
  11. ^"Life member - IIS".Indian Immunology Society.18 January 2018.Retrieved18 January2018.
  12. ^"Government of India,Indian Science Congress".www.sciencecongress.nic.in.18 January 2018.Retrieved18 January2018.
  13. ^Boodhun, Nawsheen (22 February 2016)."BMC Hematology reviewer acknowledgement 2015".BMC Hematology.16:5.doi:10.1186/s12878-016-0044-x.ISSN2052-1839.PMC4340858.
  14. ^"Women scientists zindabad!".The Hindu Business Line.30 May 2008.Retrieved18 January2018.
  15. ^"Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development"(PDF).Department of Biotechnology. 2016.Retrieved20 November2017.Archived4 March 2018 at theWayback Machine
  16. ^"Basanti Devi Amir Chand Prize"(PDF).Indian Council of Medical Research.18 January 2018.Retrieved18 January2018.Archived12 January 2017 at theWayback Machine
  17. ^"Chaturvedi Ghanshyam Das Jaigopal Memorial Award"(PDF).Indian Council of Medical Research.18 January 2018.Retrieved18 January2018.
  18. ^"NASI Year Book 2015"(PDF).National Academy of Sciences, India. 12 January 2018.Retrieved12 January2018.Archived6 August 2015 at theWayback Machine
  19. ^"Fellowship - Indian Academy of Sciences".www.ias.ac.in.16 January 2018.Retrieved16 January2018.
  20. ^"INSA Year Book 2016"(PDF).Indian National Science Academy. 26 December 2017.Retrieved26 December2017.
  21. ^"Ghulam Nabi Azad presents ICMR Awards to 51 scientists".India Medical Times.Retrieved18 January2018.
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