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Dulal Panda

Dulal Panda (born 28 January 1964) is an Indian cell biologist and the chair professor at the department of biosciences and bioengineering of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Presently, he is the Director of NIPER, SAS Nagar (Mohali). Known for his studies on microtubule dynamics and FtsZ assembly dynamics, Panda is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, India. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences in 2005.[1]

Dulal Panda
Born (1964-01-28) 28 January 1964 (age 60)
India
NationalityIndian
Alma mater
Known forStudies on microtubule dynamics and FtsZ assembly dynamics
Awards
  • 2001 FIC FIRCA Award
  • 2005 N-BIOS Prize
  • 2007 SBC P. S. Sharma Memorial Award
  • 2007 IITB S. C. Bhattacharya Award
  • 2010 CDRI Drug Research Excellence Award
  • 2010 DAE-SRC Outstanding Research Investigator Award
  • 2012 CSIR G. N. Ramachandran Gold Medal
Scientific career
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Biography

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Born on 28 January 1964,[2] Dulal Panda did his doctoral studies at Bose Institute to earn a PhD in biochemistry in 1994[3] and subsequently, did his post-doctoral work at the University of California, Santa Barbara during 1998–2000 as a research associate.[4] On his return to India, he joined the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 2000 as an assistant professor at the School of Bioscience and Bioengineering and has been serving the institute since then.[5] During this period, he became an associate professor in 2003 and a professor in 2007,[6] and serves as a chair professor at the School of Bioscience and Bioengineering. In between, he was also associated with the scientific programs in life sciences of the Department of Science and Technology during 2003–04.[7]

Panda resides in Powai, a neighborhood of Mumbai, in Maharashtra.[8]

Legacy

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Microtubule structure

Panda's cell biological research covered the fields of eukaryotic and prokaryotic cell division, dynamics of microtubules and FtsZ, chemotherapeutic treatment protocols, development of FtsZ-targeted antibacterial drugs as well as biomolecular spectroscopy.[5] His work on the dynamics of microtubules is known to have assisted in the development of anti-cancer and anti-fungal drugs and the research on FtsZ assembly has contributed to widening the understanding of their polymerization dynamics.[4] He holds one patent for the development of an antibacterial drug[3] and has four other patent applications pending approval.[9] His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles[10][note 1] and the online article repository of the Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 50 of them.[11] Besides, he has contributed chapters to books published by others.[12][13] He serves as the associate editor of BioMed Central of Springer Nature[14] and was a member of the national committee of the 1st International Conference on Nutraceuticals and Chronic Diseases held in Kochi, Kerala in September 2016.[15]

Awards and honors

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Dulal Panda received the Fogarty International Research Collaboration Award (FIRCA) of the John E. Fogarty International Center in 2001[3] and the Swarnajayathi Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology in 2004.[16] The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2005.[1] He was chosen for the P. S. Sharma Memorial Award of the Society of Biological Chemists in 2007, the same year as he was selected as a member of Guha Research Conference.[5] He received the S. C. Bhattacharya Award of IIT Bombay in 2009[17] and in 2010, he received two awards, the CDRI Award for Excellence in Drug Research of the Central Drug Research Institute[18] and the Outstanding Research Investigator Award of the Science Research Council of the Department of Atomic Energy.[16] The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research honored him with the G. N. Ramachandran Gold Medal in 2012.[19]

Panda, who holds a TATA Innovation Fellowship of the Department of Biotechnology,[6] was elected as a fellow by the National Academy of Sciences, India in 2005.[20] He received the elected fellowship of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 2008.[21]

Selected bibliography

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Chapters

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  • Leslie Wilson; John J. Correia (Eds.); Bhabhatarak Bhattacharya, Sonia Kapoor Dulal Panda (chapter authors) (3 July 2010). "Fluorescence Spectroscopic Methods to Analyze Drug-tubulin Interactions". Microtubules, in vitro. Academic Press. pp. 9–. ISBN 978-0-08-088858-3.
  • Claudio O. Gualerzi; Letizia Brandi; Attilio Fabbretti, Cynthia L. Pon (5 September 2013). Antibiotics: Targets, Mechanisms and Resistance. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 22–. ISBN 978-3-527-65970-8.

General articles

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Scientific articles

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See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Please see Selected bibliography section

References

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  1. ^ a b "Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development" (PDF). Department of Biotechnology. 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  2. ^ "Fellow profile-Dulal Panda". Indian Academy of Sciences. 19 December 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  3. ^ a b c "Dulal Panda on NISER" (PDF). National Institute of Science Education and Research. 19 December 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  4. ^ a b "Dulal Panda, Ph.D. profile in India Cancer Research Database". www.incredb.org. 19 December 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  5. ^ a b c "Panda, D - Faculty profile". www.bio.iitb.ac.in. 19 December 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  6. ^ a b "Prof. Dulal Panda on IITB Bio". www.bio.iitb.ac.in. 19 December 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  7. ^ "1997-05 - Department Of Science & Technology". dst.gov.in. 19 December 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  8. ^ "NASI fellows". National Academy of Sciences, India. 12 November 2017. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  9. ^ "Dulal Panda Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications - Justia Patents Search". patents.justia.com. 19 December 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  10. ^ "On ResearchGate". 17 December 2017. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  11. ^ "Browse by Fellow". Indian Academy of Sciences. 17 December 2017. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  12. ^ Leslie Wilson; John J. Correia (Eds.); Bhabhatarak Bhattacharya, Sonia Kapoor Dulal Panda (chapter authors) (3 July 2010). "Fluorescence Spectroscopic Methods to Analyze Drug-tubulin Interactions". Microtubules, in vitro. Academic Press. pp. 9–. ISBN 978-0-08-088858-3.
  13. ^ Claudio O. Gualerzi; Letizia Brandi; Attilio Fabbretti, Cynthia L. Pon (5 September 2013). Antibiotics: Targets, Mechanisms and Resistance. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 22–. ISBN 978-3-527-65970-8.
  14. ^ "Dulal Panda, Associate Editor, Editorial Board at Biomed Central Ltd. - Relationship Science". Relationship Science. 19 December 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  15. ^ Sahirudeen, Amanat (19 December 2017). "INCD 2017 - Committee Members". www.isncd.com. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  16. ^ a b "Awards & Fellows in Professional Bodies". IIT Bombay. 19 December 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  17. ^ "Awards at IITB". www.ircc.iitb.ac.in. 19 December 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  18. ^ "CDRI Award for Excellence in Drug Research" (PDF). Central Drug Research Institute. 19 December 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  19. ^ "G. N. Ramachandran Gold Medal". Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 19 December 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  20. ^ "NASI Year Book 2015" (PDF). National Academy of Sciences, India. 17 December 2017. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  21. ^ "Fellowship - Indian Academy of Sciences". www.ias.ac.in. 17 December 2017. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
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