Snehasikta Swarnakar was born on 1963 and is an Indian chemical biologist and the senior principal scientist at the Division of Cancer Biology and Inflammatory Disorder of the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology.
10 Facts About Snehasikta Swarnakar
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Snehasikta Swarnakar started her career in 1997 as a research scientist at the Stony Brook University where she worked until 2001 and on her return to India, she joined the Division of Cancer Biology and Inflammatory Disorder of the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology where she holds the position of a senior principal scientist.
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Snehasikta Swarnakar is a visiting professor at the Department of Environmental Science of the University of Calcutta.
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Snehasikta Swarnakar's research is focused on cancer biology and she is known to have conducted basic and translational research on various types of cancers such as lung, brain, oral, breast, pancreatic, blood and cervical cancers.
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Snehasikta Swarnakar's studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 103 of them.
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Snehasikta Swarnakar has delivered invited or plenary speeches at science conferences and has mentored several scholars in their post-graduate and doctoral studies.
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Snehasikta Swarnakar is the treasurer of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology and sits in the council of the Chemical Biology Society.
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Snehasikta Swarnakar is a life member of the Indian Science Congress Association, the Biotech Research Society, India, the Society for Free Radical Research, the International Society for Computational Biology and the Society of Biological Chemists, India.
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Snehasikta Swarnakar was elected as a fellow by the National Academy of Sciences, India in 2012 and was one of the team members of Anirban Bandyopadhyay who won the Palo Alto Longevity Prize in 2013.
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Snehasikta Swarnakar is an elected fellow of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology.