Chitra Mandal
Infectious Disease and Immunology Division
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Chitra Mandal obtained her BSc degree with Chemistry honours from Bankura Christian College and MSc in Organic Chemistry from Burdwan University, West Bengal. She obtained PhD (1978) in Bio-Organic Chemistry from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India and moved to the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA for her post-doctoral work in the field of Molecular Immunology on antibody diversity. Returning to India in Dec1981, she joined the CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB) Kolkata as an Immunologist and has spent her entire professional career here. Currently, she is a Senior Scientist (H) and heading the Division of Cancer Biology and Inflammatory Diseases.
Research Interest
Glycobiology, Immunology