Sujata Sharma

Sujata Sharma
Born (1970-06-18) 18 June 1970 (age 54)
India
Alma mater
Known forLactoferrin, Acinetobacter baumannii, Lactoperoxidase, Peptidoglycan recognition protein
Awards
  • 2021 TWAS Regional Awards in Public Understanding and Popularization of Science
  • 2020 Kalpana Chawla Excellence Award
  • 2011 N-BIOS Prize
  • 2006 BRSI Woman Scientist Award
  • 2007 DBT National Woman Bioscientist Award
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions

Sujata Sharma is an Indian structural biologist, biophysicist, writer and a professor at the Department of Biophysics of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi.[1] She is known for her studies in the fields of protein structure, drug design and drug resistance of bacteria.[2] Her studies have been documented by way of a number of articles[note 1] and ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 167 of them.[1] She is also the author of the books, "Warriors in White", an autobiographical account of some COVID-19 Warriors at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi and other leading hospitals of India, including Prof Randeep Guleria, using a combination of modern medicine, astronomy and Vedic astrology,[3] "The Secret of the Red Crystals", an autobiographical account of her days in AIIMS Delhi.[4] and "A Dragonfly's purpose", which is an autobiographical account of her recovery from an autoimmune disease, Guillain Barre Syndrome.[5] The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded her the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for her contributions to biosciences, in 2011.[6] She is also a recipient of the Woman Scientist Award of the Biotech Research Society of India[7] and the National Young Woman Bioscientist Award of the Department of Biotechnology which she received in 2006 and 2007 respectively.[8] In 2020, she was awarded the Kalpana Chawla Excellence award,[9] for her contributions in science. This award is instituted in the memory of the first Indian woman astronaut, Kalpana Chawla to go on space missions.

  1. ^ a b "On ResearchGate". 29 January 2018. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Sujata Sharma on AIIMS". AIIMS New Delhi. 30 January 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  3. ^ Sharma, Sujata (11 January 2021). Warriors in White. Notion Press. ISBN 978-1-637455-11-1.
  4. ^ Sujata Sharma (16 October 2017). The Secret of the Red Crystals. Notion Press. pp. 11–. ISBN 978-1-947988-83-5.
  5. ^ Sujata Sharma (12 September 2019). A Dragonfly's Purpose. Notion Press. p. 206. ISBN 978-1-64650-765-8.
  6. ^ "Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development" (PDF). Department of Biotechnology. 2016. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  7. ^ "Woman Scientist Award". Biotech Research Society of India. 30 January 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  8. ^ "National Young Woman Bioscientist Award" (PDF). Department of Biotechnology. 30 January 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  9. ^ "Kalpana Chawla Excellence Award 2020". Tribune India. Retrieved 6 February 2020.


Cite error: There are <ref group=note> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=note}} template (see the help page).