Sangita Mukhopadhyay

Born on the New Year's Day of 1966 at Khargapur in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh,[1] Sangita Mukhopadhyay completed her MSc with a gold medal and did her doctoral studies at the Regional Medical Research Center, Bhubaneswar which fetched her a Phd from Utkal University in 1998 for her thesis on immunoregulation in filariasis.

[2] Subsequently, she did the post-doctoral work at the National Institute of Immunology and, later, in U.S.A. at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

[3] On her return to India, she joined the Central Drug Research Institute in 1999 and after a short stint, moved to the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD).

[5] Mukhopadhyay's research focus is on the molecular study of the immune responses signaling networks caused by the pathogens.

[9] Mukhopadhyay is a member of the Task Force on Infectious Disease Biology of the Department of Biotechnology of India[10] and is a life member of the Indian Immunology Society,[11] the Molecular Immunology Forum, India and the Indian Science Congress Association.