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Tulika Prasad


Tulika Prasad

Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

Biography

 Dr. Tulika Prasad is Assistant Professor in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India and teaches Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine at Special Centre for Nano Sciences. She is one of the founder faculty members of AIRF-JNU, a State of Art Research Laboratory. She works on Nanomedicine, Infectious Disease Biology and Multi Drug Resistance (MDR) especially in Candida albicans (a fungal pathogen) and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Tuberculosis causing bacteria). She has a research group of 6 PhD students and two postdoctoral fellows.

       She did graduation in Biological Sciences from Presidency College, Calcutta, India, Masters from Calcutta University and carried out Ph.D. at School of Life Sciences, JNU, New Delhi working on identification of novel drug targets and functional significance of membrane lipids in MDR and morphogenesis in pathogenic yeast, C. albicans. She received Postdoctoral Fellowships from DBT and CSIR and worked at Special Centre for Molecular Medicine, JNU to successfully demonstrate iron as a novel modulator of drug resistance and morphogenesis. She received NIH Visiting Fellowship at Liver Diseases Branch, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA for the year 2008-09.

          Dr. Tulika has published around 40 original papers and book chapters in reputed peer-reviewed international journals and books. Her work has been awarded at several national and international conferences. She is recipient of Several Young Scientists Awards and received Ranbaxy Young Science Scholar Award for 2008 in the field of Medical Sciences by Ranbaxy Science Foundation and Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award, 2008 by Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India. She received Best Hall Presentation Award in Young Scientist Conclave at India International Science Festival (IISF)-2016 by Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India for her work “Combating Multi Drug Resistance in Candida: a nano-based approach”.

Abstract

Abstract : Nanomedicine for infectious diseases