Anuradha Lohia
3rd Vice-Chancellor of Presidency University
Assumed office
2 May 2014
ChancellorGovernor of West Bengal
GovernorM.K. Narayanan
Keshari Nath Tripathi
Jagdeep Dhankhar
Preceded byMalabika Sarkar
Personal details
NationalityIndian
Alma mater

Anuradha Lohia (née Fatehpuria) is an Indian molecular parasitologist who works in infectious disease.[1][2] She is currently the Vice Chancellor of the Presidency University.[3][4][5][6] She was earlier the Chairperson of the Department of Biochemistry in the Bose Institute in Kolkata. She was Chairperson of an Indo-British Wellcome Trust/ DBT India Alliance, an organization to promote medical research in India.[7]

Education and career

She was a student of the Modern High School for Girls in Calcutta. She did a B.Sc. in physiology from Presidency College in Calcutta University and an M.Sc. in physiology from Rajabazar Science College, Calcutta University and later did her doctorate in Vibrio cholerae from the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology.[8] She was a visiting scientist in various universities around the world. She did her postdoctoral research in New York University Medical Centre. She was elected a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences. She was also awarded the Stree Shakti award and the UNESCO Molecular and Cell Biology network grant.

References

  1. ↑ "Anuradha Lohia Vice Chancellor". Presidency University, Kolkata. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
  2. ↑ "Anuradha Lohia". Bose Institute. Archived from the original on 22 July 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
  3. ↑ "Lohia selected as Presidency VC". The Telegraph (Calcutta). 27 April 2014. Archived from the original on 18 August 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
  4. ↑ "Presidency University VC Anuradha Lohia under gherao since last evening". The Economic Times. 22 August 2015. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
  5. ↑ "Presidency University stalemate: Students vacate V-C Anuradha Lohia's chambers, panel set up to hear them out". Indian Express. 26 August 2015. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
  6. ↑ "Happy to feature on Presidency University's vice chancellor probable list: Lohia". Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey. Times of India. 25 April 2014. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
  7. ↑ "Ten women, ten questions: Anuradha Lohia". indiabioscience.org. 17 July 2015. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
  8. ↑ "Anuradha Lohia". StreeShakti. Archived from the original on 7 August 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2016.

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