Sunita Saxena's Biography

Sunita Saxena, Ex-Director & Consultant, National Institute of Pathology-ICMR

Dr. Sunita Saxena is Ex-Director & Consultant of National Institute of Pathology, one of the premier institute of Indian Council Of Medical Research in INDIA. A pathologist by training, she has evolved beyond diagnostic pathology to using trans disciplinary approaches in understanding important cancers in India. She is one of the few molecular pathologists in country with keen interest in Oncopathology and Molecular oncology. She has been trained at International Agency for Research in Cancer, Lyon, France for various genetic and molecular biology based technologies. Her current research interest is identification of genetic risk factors, prognostic and predictive biomarkers and novel drug targets for Breast cancer and Tobacco associated cancers in North east region using genome-wide approaches.
Dr sunita Saxena is recipient of Yamigawa-Yoshida fellowship of UICC, Novartis Oration and Dr. P.N.Wahi awards of ICMR and K.C.Basu Mullick award for best research work from Indian Association of Pathologists and Microbiologists. She is also Fellow of National Academy of Medical Sciences and Indian College of Pathologists.