Manju Bansal

Manju Bansal
Born	December 1, 1950 Dehradun
Residence	India
Nationality	Indian
Institutions	Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology; IISc, Bangalore
Alma mater	Osmania University, Hyderabad
Known for	Molecular Biophysics, Structural and Computational Biology

Manju Bansal (born. December 1, 1950) specializes in the field of Molecular biophysics and is currently a professor of theoretical Biophysics group in Molecular Biophysicsunit of in the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. She is the founder director of the Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology at Bangalore.

Education

Dr Bansal did her schooling from Hyderabad and Dehradun. She developed 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.

Fellowships

Dr 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.

Awards & Honours

Dr 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), Allahabad, since 1998.