Veena Tandon is an Indian parasitologist, academic and a NASI senior scientist at Biotech Park, Lucknow.
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Veena Tandon is a former professor of zoology at the North Eastern Hill University and serves as the chief instigator for the North-East India Helminth Parasite Information Database.
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Veena Tandon is known for her researches on worm infections afflicting the animals of food value and is the author of two books and several articles on parasitology.
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Veena Tandon was born on 7 September 1949 in Kashipur in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.
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Veena Tandon started her career as an assistant professor at Himachal Pradesh University but moved to the Department of Zoology of the North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, as an assistant professor where she served till her superannuation as a professor.
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Veena Tandon is the principal investigator of the DIT - North-East Parasite Information Analysis Centre which is involved in the preparation of a North-East India Helminth Parasite Information Database.
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Veena Tandon's researches have been documented by way of over 340 articles, many of them published in international peer reviewed journals.
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Veena Tandon is a co-author of the Northeast India Helminth Parasite Information Database : Knowledge Base for Helminth Parasites, a database on the parasite biodiversity of the region, and has served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Government of India as well as the Task Force on Biotechnology of the Department of Science and Technology.
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Veena Tandon is married to Pramod Tandon, an educationist and a former vice chancellor of the North Eastern Hill University.
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The couple has a son, Prateek Veena Tandon, who is a computer engineer and an author.
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Veena Tandon has delivered key note addresses in many science conferences and award orations such as Prof.