Sunil Kumar Manna (27 August 1968) is an Indian immunologist and the head of the immunology lab of the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics.
Sunil Kumar Manna, born on 27 August 1968, pursued his post-graduate education at the University of Calcutta and after earning an MSc, he did his doctoral research at the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology which secured him a PhD from Jadavpur University.
[1] His post-doctoral work was at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center under the guidance of Bharat Aggarwal[2] and on his return to India, he was reportedly offered a faculty position at the Presidency University which he declined to take up a position at the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics,[3] where he serves as the head of the Lab of Immunology.
[1] His research focus is in the field of immunology and he is known to have carried out work on Cytokine mediated immunoregulation as well as apoptosis in cancer.
[7] In 2012, a Japanese scientist accused Manna of plagiarism with regard to some of the images used by him in one of his articles published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.