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Manju Bansal (born. 1 December 1950) has specialized in the field of Molecular biophysics . Currently, she is a professor in theoretical Biophysics group for Molecular Biophysics unit in the Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore . She is the founder director of the Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology at Bangalore. ^{[1] [2]}

Education [ edit ]

Bansal did her schooling from Hyderabad and Dehradun . She developed a great interest in Science and later went ahead to earn her BSc and MSc from Osmania University , Hyderabad . In 1972 she joined the Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore for her doctoral degree. She got an opportunity to work under the guidance of biophysicist G. N. Ramachandran , on the theoretical modeling of the triple helical structure of the fibrous protein collagen. She received her PhD in 1977. Thereafter, she continued working at IISc as a post-doctoral fellow on left handed and other unusual structures of DNA till 1981. She then went to Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory , Heidelberg , for a year and worked on the structure of filamentous phages. ^[2]

Fellowships [ edit ]

Bansal has been awarded an EMBL Visiting Fellowship and AvH Fellowship, Germany and Senior Fulbright Fellowship, USA. She has been a Visiting Professor at Rutgers University, USA, and Visiting Consultant at NIH, Bethesda, USA. ^{[2] [3]}

Awards and honours [ edit ]

Bansal was awarded the INSA Medal for Young Scientists in 1979. she is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore and National Academy of Sciences (India), Prayagraj, since 1998. ^[2]

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