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Shekhar C Mande

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Residence
  
India

Nationality
  
Indian


Name
  
Shekhar Mande

Fields
  
Biology


Born
  
5 April 1962 (age 62) Nagpur, India (
1962-04-05
)

Institutions
  
National Centre for Cell Science

Alma mater
  
Indian Institute of Science, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Education
  
Indian Institute of Science

Interview with dr shekhar c mande


Shekhar C. Mande is a Structural and Computational Biologist. He did his M.Sc. in Physics from University of Nagpur. He holds Doctor of philosophy in Molecular Biophysics, from the Indian Institute of Science. Following his PhD, he joined Prof. Wim G. J. Hol as Post Doctoral Fellow at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in the Netherlands. Since 2001, he was senior staff scientist at Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics. Currently, he serves as director at National Centre for Cell Science in Pune, India.

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He was awarded in 2005 the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, in the Biological sciences category.

Prizes and honours

  • B M Birla Young Scientist Award, 1999
  • Wellcome Trust International Senior Fellow, since 2003
  • Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for 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

    • Research highlights

  • Structural Biologist and X-ray Crystallographer
  • Structural characterization of M. tuberculosis proteins
  • Computational analysis of genome-wide protein:protein interactions.

    • References

    Shekhar C. Mande Wikipedia
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