Snehasikta Swarnakar

Snehasikta Swarnakar, born in 1963[1] in the Indian state of West Bengal, secured a PhD in 1993 from Jadavpur University for her thesis, Studies on a sialic acid-binding lectin from albumin gland of apple snail Pila globosa,[2] working on junior and senior research fellowships from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research[3] and moved to the US for her post-doctoral work which she completed at the University of California, Davis and Marine Biological Laboratory during 1994–97.

[10][11] She has also delivered invited or plenary speeches at science conferences[12][13] and has mentored several scholars in their post-graduate and doctoral studies.

[14] Swarnakar is member of the governing body of the ANB Memorial Foundation, a trust in memory of Amar Nath Bhaduri, the noted chemical biologist[15] she was the secretary of the organizing committee of the 2nd International Meet on Advanced Studies on Cell Signaling Network (CeSiN 2014) held in Kolkata.

[16] She is the treasurer of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology[17] and sits in the council of the Chemical Biology Society.

[19] She was elected as a fellow by the National Academy of Sciences, India in 2012[20] and was one of the team members of Anirban Bandyopadhyay who won the Palo Alto Longevity Prize in 2013.