Anuradha Lohia

Anuradha Lohia
Residence
Nationality Indian
Alma mater Calcutta University
Scientific career
Institutions Bose Institute, Presidency University

Anuradha Lohia (née Fatehpuria) is an Indian molecular parasitologist who works in infectious disease. [1][2] She is currently the Vice Chancellor of the Presidency University.[3][4][5][6] She was earlier the Chairperson of Department of Biochemistry in the Bose Institute in Kolkata. She was Chairperson of an Indo-British Wellcome Trust/ DBT India Alliance, an organization to promote medical research in India.[7]

Education and career

She was a student of Modern High School for Girls in Calcutta. She did a B.Sc. in Physiology from Presidency College in Calcutta University and M.Sc. in Physiology from University College of Science, Technology & Agriculture and later did her doctorate in Vibrio cholerae from the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology.[8] She was visiting scientist in various universities in the World. She did her Postdoctoral research in New York University Medical Centre. She was elected a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences. She was also awarded the Stree Shakti award and the UNESCO Molecular and Cell Biology network grant.

At Bose Institute, Prof. Lohia worked on assisted midwifery in the cell division of Entamoeba histolytica, Snf proteins and on the genome-wide sequencing of the Entamoeba genome, for which she has a contribution to a Nature paper of the same name.

References

  1. ↑ "Anuradha Lohia Vice Chancellor". Presidency University, Kolkata. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
  2. ↑ "Anuradha Lohia". Bose Institute. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
  3. ↑ "Lohia selected as Presidency VC". The Telegraph (Calcutta). 27 April 2014. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
  4. ↑ "Presidency University VC Anuradha Lohia under gherao since last evening". The Economic Times. 22 August 2015. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
  5. ↑ "Presidency University stalemate: Students vacate V-C Anuradha Lohia's chambers, panel set up to hear them out". Indian Express. 26 August 2015. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
  6. ↑ "Happy to feature on Presidency University's vice chancellor probable list: Lohia". Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey. Times of India. 25 April 2014. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
  7. ↑ "Ten women, ten questions: Anuradha Lohia". indiabioscience.org. 17 July 2015. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
  8. ↑ "Anuradha Lohia,". StreeShakti. Retrieved 13 July 2016.

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