Vidita Vaidya

Vidita Vaidya
Residence Mumbai, India
Nationality Indian
Alma mater St. Xavier's College, Mumbai
Yale University
Awards

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, 2015 National Bioscience Award for Career Development, 2012

Fellow, Indian National Science Academy
Scientific career
Fields Neuroscience with a focus on studying the neurocircuitry of emotion
Institutions Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
Doctoral advisor Professor Ronald Duman at Yale University

Vidita Vaidya is an Indian neuroscientist and Professor at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. She was a former Senior Research Fellow of the Wellcome Trust and a former associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences. Her primary areas of research are neuroscience and molecular psychiatry.[1]

Education

Vidita received her undergraduate degree from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai in Life Sciences and Biochemistry. She obtained her doctoral degree in Neuroscience at Yale University in. Her postdoctoral work was done at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and at the University of Oxford in UK, which she completed in March, 2000.[1][2]

Career

She joined the Department of Biological Sciences, TIFR at the age of 29, in March, 2000, as a Principal Investigator.[3] She has been a Wellcome Trust Overseas Senior Research Fellow and an Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences from 2000-2005.[4] Vidita studies the neurocircuits that regulate emotion and how these mechanisms are influenced by life experiences. She also investigates how changes in brain circuits form the basis of psychiatric disorders like depression and how early life experiences contribute to persistent alterations in behaviour. She was awarded the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 2015 in the medical sciences category[5] and is a fellow at the Indian National Science Academy.

Vidita's research has also been centered around the role of serotonin in shaping neurocircuits of emotion during critical periods of postnatal development and on the mechanism of action of fast acting antidepressant treatments.[6] Her lab work is conducted on lab rats and mice. Vidita's particular field of interest lies in understanding how individuals develop vulnerability or resilience to stress-associated psychopathology.[3]

Her site at TIFR hosts a complete list of her publications.[7] Vidita has also been featured in Lilavathi's Daughters,[8] a compilation of biographical essays on Indian women scientists, and on "The Life in Science" blog.[9]

Achievements

Her work has garnered the 2015 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for Medical Sciences. She is also a recipient of the National Bioscience Award for Career Development in 2012.[10]

References

  1. 1 2 "TIFR - Principal Investigator". Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  2. ↑ "Vidita A Vaidya - Info". www.researchgate.net. Retrieved 2017-02-04.
  3. 1 2 TLoS (2016-05-30). "Vidita Vaidya Gets Into Your Head". The Life of Science. Retrieved 2017-02-04.
  4. ↑ "Former Associates". Indian Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
  5. ↑ "List of recipients" (PDF). Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (SSB) for Science and Technology 2015. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  6. ↑ junoontheatre (2015-04-26). "The Social Brain: Discoveries and Shared Delights with Prof. Vidita Vaidya". Retrieved 2017-02-04.
  7. ↑ "Publications". Tifr.res.in. Retrieved 2014-03-24.
  8. ↑ "Women in Science IAS - Vidita" (PDF). Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  9. ↑ "Vidita Vaidya gets into your head". The Life of Science. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
  10. ↑ "Awardees of N-BIOS for the year 2012" (PDF). AWARDEES OF NATIONAL BIOSCIENCE AWARDS FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT. Department of Biotechnology, India. Retrieved 30 October 2015.



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