Sandhya Srikant Visweswariah

Prof.
Sandhya Srikant Visweswariah
Born (1957-03-06) March 6, 1957
Nationality Indian
Occupation Scientist/Academic
Academic background
Education Ph.D.
Alma mater Indian Institute of Science
Thesis  (1987)
Academic work
Discipline Biology
Sub-discipline Biochemistry, Cell Biology
Institutions Indian Institute of Science
Main interests Research on signal transduction mediated by cyclic nucleotides
Website http://mrdg.iisc.ernet.in/sandhyav/index.htm

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[1] and the Co-chair of the Centre for Biosystems Science and Engineering,[2] Indian Institute of Science. She additionally holds the position of Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry,[3] University of Bergen,[4] Norway. Her research involves the investigation of the mechanism of signal transduction via cyclic nucleotides, phosphodiesterases and novel cyclases in bacteria.[5] Most recently, she was awarded a Bill and Melinda Gates Grand Challenges Explorations Grant[6] for her proposal entitled "A Small Animal Model of ETEC-Mediated Diarrhea".[7]

Education

Visweswariah completed her Bachelor of Science in 1977 at Osmania University,[8] 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,[9] Indian Institute of Science and was awarded her doctorate in 1987.[10]

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,[11] 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,[11] Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and Co-chair of the Centre for Biosystems Science and Engineering,[2] 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.[12]

Membership in Professional Bodies and Editorial Boards

Visweswariah is a fellow of the Indian National Science Academy[13] and the Indian Academy of Sciences.[14] She is a life member of the Society of Biological Chemists (India),[15][16] Indian Society of Cell Biology[17] (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[18] (1997–present), the TB Structural Genomics Consortium, the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology[19] (ASBMB), and the American Society for Microbiology[20] (ASM).

She serves as Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Receptors and Signal Transduction, Tuberculosis,[21] Physiology Reports,[22] FEMS Microbiological Letters[23] and PeerJ and an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Cellular Endocrinology.[24]

Awards and Fellowships

  • Gold Medal in Botany, B.Sc. 1978.
  • Indian National Science Academy Medal for Young Scientists, 1988.[25]
  • Awarded a Short-Term Associateship by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India[26] for 3-month visit to University of Missouri at Columbia, United States, 1998.
  • Recipient of Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Short Term Fellowship (2002) to visit University of California, Berkeley in the laboratory of Prof. John Kuriyan.[27][28]
  • Awarded the Central Drug Research Institute[29] Award for Excellence in Drug Research, 2005.[30]
  • Recipient of YT Thathachari Award 2009.[31]
  • Recipient of a Royal Society International Joint Project with Dr. Roger Buxton, National Institute for Medical Research, UK,[32] London, 2008-2011.
  • Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellowship,[33] 2011-2012,[34] spent at the lab of Dr. Sabine Ehrt,[35] Weill Cornell Medical College,[36] New York City, United States.
  • AstraZeneca Research Chair Professor, Indian Institute of Science, August 2012 – 2015.
  • JC Bose Fellow,[37] 2013–present.
  • Recipient of a Bill and Melinda Gates Grand Challenges Explorations Grant,[6] 2014.[7]

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[38] and ResearchGate.[39]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.mrdg.iisc.ernet.in/
  2. 1 2 "bsse · iisc". www.be.iisc.ernet.in.
  3. ↑ "Faculty of Medicine".
  4. ↑ "University of Bergen". University of Bergen.
  5. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-22. Retrieved 2016-07-16.
  6. 1 2 "About Grand Challenges - Grand Challenges". gcgh.grandchallenges.org.
  7. 1 2 "A Small Animal Model of ETEC-Mediated Diarrhea - Grand Challenges". gcgh.grandchallenges.org.
  8. ↑ "Osmania University". www.osmania.ac.in.
  9. ↑ "Department of Biochemistry". biochem.iisc.ernet.in.
  10. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-10-26. Retrieved 2017-11-08.
  11. 1 2 "Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics at IISc". www.mrdg.iisc.ernet.in.
  12. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-08-17. Retrieved 2016-07-16.
  13. ↑
  14. ↑ "Fellowship - Indian Academy of Sciences". www.ias.ac.in.
  15. ↑ http://www.iisc.ernet.in/sbci/
  16. ↑ "List of Life Members" (PDF). iisc.ernet.in.
  17. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-08-16. Retrieved 2016-07-16.
  18. ↑ "Test Page for the Nginx HTTP Server on Fedora". afcs.lbl.gov.
  19. ↑ "ASBMB". www.asbmb.org.
  20. ↑ http://www.asm.org/
  21. ↑ "Tuberculosis". www.journals.elsevier.com.
  22. ↑ "Physiological Reports - Wiley Online Library". physreports.physiology.org.
  23. ↑ "FEMS Microbiology Letters - Oxford Academic". OUP Academic.
  24. ↑ "Cellular Endocrinology".
  25. ↑
  26. ↑ http://dbt.nic.in
  27. ↑ "Kuriyan Lab". jkweb.berkeley.edu.
  28. ↑ "Annual report" (PDF). hfsp.org. 2002.
  29. ↑ http://www.cdriindia.org/home.asp
  30. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-02-16. Retrieved 2016-07-16.
  31. ↑ "IISc., TIFR scientists receive Thathachari Award". 4 April 2010 – via www.thehindu.com.
  32. ↑ "MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London". 9 July 2011.
  33. ↑ "Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Program". www.usief.org.in.
  34. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-12-16. Retrieved 2016-07-16.
  35. ↑ "Ehrt, Sabine". vivo.med.cornell.edu.
  36. ↑ "Weill Cornell Medicine". weill.cornell.edu.
  37. ↑ "Intensification of Research in High Priority Area (IRHPA): Science and Engineering Research Board, Established through an Act of Parliament: SERB Act 2008, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India". www.serb.gov.in.
  38. ↑ pubmeddev. "sandhya s visweswariah - PubMed - NCBI". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.
  39. ↑ "Sandhya Visweswariah - PhD - Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru - IISC - Department of Molecular Reproduction Development and Genetics". www.researchgate.net.
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