Manika Pal Bhadra's Biography

Manika Pal Bhadra, Principal Scientist, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology

Dr. Manika Pal Bhadra is an eminent and one of the well reputed scientists in India. She is presently working as a principal scientist and Head of the division Centre for Chemical Biology at CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad. She was awarded Ph. D in the area of Adv. Cytology and Mol. Genetics from Calcutta University, India and Post Doctorial studies at University of Missouri, Columbia. She has 96 research publications in international Journals like Cell, Science, Molecular Cell, Gene, Nature Genetics, Nanotechnology etc. in the areas of RNAi & Epigenetic, Nanotechnology and Drug discovery. She is currently handling various in-house and international projects which include i) Role Of RNAi on heterochromatin silencing and its assembly in Drosophila. ii) Screening and development of novel drug targets that act as histone deacetylases inhibitors iii) Development and biological evaluation of nanoparticles for targeted delivery of siRNA to cells. iv) Screening of biological evaluation of small molecule modifiers of micro RNA. She is recipient of several prestigious awards like Nasi Reliance-2012, Wellcome Trust Fellow-2005, IICT Best Women Scientist-2012, IICT Roll of Honour-2007 and Young Scientist Award-1991 to her credit.