Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cThe academies [India has three major science academies]\nhave been doing it. However I\u2019d like to conduct more outreach in local\nlanguages and have scientists speak about their work, the process of science\netc to wider audiences,\u201d she said in a phone conversation,\u201dThis is critical to\naddress myth and misinformation. We have to educate people from the bottom-up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Earlier this year, the INSA condemned statements by\nNageswara Rao, former Vice-Chancellor, Andhra University who, at the Indian\nScience Congress in Jalandhar this January, claimed that the Kauravas were the\nproducts of stem-cell technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ms. Shaha was formerly the Director of the National\nInstitute of Immunology, Delhi and graduated with a Master\u2019s degree from the\nUniversity of Calcutta and completed her doctoral research in 1980 from the\nIndian Institute of Chemical Biology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Women comprise less than 10% of the fellowships of India\u2019s science academies but Chandrima Shaha is against quotas for women. \u201cThe critical mass of good women candidates is still low. While there are several more young women scientists today who are good and deserving, we cannot dilute [academic and research] standards just to accommodate more women. India has several opportunities for women scientists perhaps more than several countries. However, we need to do better at assessing these programmes and evaluating their effectiveness and execution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ms. Shaha, who\u2019s never married, said fewer family\ncommitments allowed her to focus more time on science than several women\ncolleagues and contemporaries, \u201cIt\u2019s challenging to multi-task as a scientist,\nwhich is a demanding job, and maintain a family. In that sense, I was in a way\nprivileged, that I could relatively more time than many peers,\u201d said Ms. Shaha,\nwho\u2019s also a photographer and \u2014 prior to being a biologist \u2014 was vice-captain\nof West Bengal\u2019s woman\u2019s cricket team as well as a commentator on All India\nRadio. \u201cNow I just follow sport on television but cricket taught me the value\nof team work,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For her post doctoral work, she went to the University of\nKansas Medical Centre (1980-1982).\n\nAs a biologist, Ms. Shaha has focussed on\napoptosis, or programmed cell death. Her laboratory uses the uni-cellular leishmania\nparasite as a model to understand the conditions under which cells respond to\ntheir environment and kill themselves, if need be. Runaway cell growth is\ncharacteristic to cancer, some autoimmune diseases and neurogenerative\ndisorders and understanding cell death, the genes involved, the mechanism in\naction opens clues to new therapy and treatment.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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