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Place of Birth: Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
About Shekhar C. Mande
- Shekhar C.
- Mande is a Structural and Computational Biologist.
- He did his M.Sc.
- in Physics from University of Nagpur.
- He holds Doctor of philosophy in Molecular Biophysics, from the Indian Institute of Science.
- Following his PhD, he joined Prof.
- Wim G.
- J.
- Hol as Post Doctoral Fellow at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in the Netherlands.
- Since 2001, he was senior staff scientist at Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics.
- Between September 2011 and September 2018 He served as director at National Centre for Cell Science in Pune, India.
- Currently he serves as the Director General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)-cum- Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Govt of India. He was awarded in 2005 the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, in the Biological sciences category.
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