Nationality Indian Education Ph.D. Discipline Biology | Occupation Scientist/Academic Thesis year 1987 | |
Born March 6, 1957 (age 60) ( 1957-03-06 ) Website mrdg.iisc.ernet.in/sandhyav/index.htm Alma mater Indian Institute of Science Institution Indian Institute of Science | ||
Sandhya Srikant Visweswariah is a scientist and academic at the Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore, India. She is currently the Chairperson of the Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics and the Co-chair of the Centre for Biosystems Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science. She additionally holds the position of Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Bergen, Norway. Her research involves the investigation of the mechanism of signal transduction via cyclic nucleotides, phosphodiesterases and novel cyclases in bacteria. Most recently, she was awarded a Bill and Melinda Gates Grand Challenges Explorations Grant for her proposal entitled "A Small Animal Model of ETEC-Mediated Diarrhea".
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Education
Visweswariah completed her Bachelor of Science in 1977 at Osmania University, Hyderabad, majoring in Botany, Chemistry and Zoology. She then obtained a Master of Science degree in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1980. She proceeded to enrol at the PhD programme at the Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science and was awarded her doctorate in 1987.
Career
Visweswariah started her career as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Astra Research Centre, Bangalore in 1987. After a year at the Astra Research Centre, she was promoted to a Scientist position at the same organization, where she stayed on until 1993. In 1993, she was appointed as Assistant Professor at the Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science, where she has held a position since, being promoted to Associate Professor in 1995 and then to Professor in 2005. She is currently the Chairperson of the Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and Co-chair of the Centre for Biosystems Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science. Over the course of 23 years as Faculty at the Indian Institute of Science, Visweswariah has mentored more than 25 PhD students.
Membership in Professional Bodies and Editorial Boards
Visweswariah is a fellow of the Indian National Science Academy and the Indian Academy of Sciences. She is a life member of the Society of Biological Chemists (India), Indian Society of Cell Biology (1995–present) and the Society of Research in Reproduction, India (1994–present). Additionally, she is a member of Guha Research Council, India (1997–present), the Alliance for Cell Signalling (1997–present), the TB Structural Genomics Consortium, the American Society of Biochemists and Molecular Biologists (ASBMB), and the American Society of Microbiologists (ASM).
She serves as Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Receptors and Signal Transduction, Tuberculosis, Physiology Reports, FEMS Microbiological Letters and PeerJ and an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Cellular Endocrinology.
Awards and Fellowships
Publications
Visweswariah has 95 publications in peer-reviewed journals and 5 book chapters to her credit, with a total citation count of over 1600 and an h-index of 25. The full list of publications from the Visweswariah lab can be found on Pubmed and ResearchGate.