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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Dulal Panda
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1964|1|28}}
| birth_place = India
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| residence = [[Mumbai]], [[Maharashtra]], India
| nationality = [[Indian nationality|Indian]]
| fields = {{ublist | [[Cell biology]] }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[IIT Bombay]] }}
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[Bose Institute]] | [[University of California, Santa Barbara]] }}
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| known_for = Studies on [[microtubule]] dynamics and [[FtsZ|FtsZ assembly]] dynamics
| awards = {{ublist| 2001 [[John E. Fogarty International Center|FIC]] FIRCA Award | 2005 [[National Bioscience Award for Career Development|N-BIOS Prize]] | 2007 SBC P. S. Sharma Memorial Award | 2007 [[IIT, Bombay|IITB]] S. C. Bhattacharya Award | 2010 [[Central Drug Research Institute|CDRI]] Drug Research Excellence Award | 2010 [[Department of Atomic Energy|DAE-SRC]] Outstanding Research Investigator Award | 2012 [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research|CSIR]] G. N. Ramachandran Gold Medal }}
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'''Dulal Panda''' (born 28 January 1964) is an Indian [[cell biology|cell biologist]] and the chair professor at the department of biosciences and bioengineering of the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay]]. Known for his studies on [[microtubule]] dynamics and [[FtsZ|FtsZ assembly]] dynamics, Panda is an elected fellow of the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] and the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]]. The [[Department of Biotechnology]] of the Government of India awarded him the [[National Bioscience Award for Career Development]], one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences in 2005.<ref name="Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development">{{Cite web |url=http://dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/list_of_bioscience_awardees.pdf |title=Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development |date=2016 |publisher=Department of Biotechnology |access-date=2017-11-20}}</ref>

== Biography ==

Born on 28 January 1964,<ref name="Fellow profile-Dulal Panda">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Panda,_Prof._Dulal |title=Fellow profile-Dulal Panda |date=2017-12-19 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |access-date=2017-12-19}}</ref> Dulal Panda did his doctoral studies at [[Bose Institute]] to earn a PhD in biochemistry in 1994<ref name="Dulal Panda on NISER">{{Cite web |url=http://www.niser.ac.in/~cellbio2011/speaker_profiles/Prof%20D%20Panda.pdf |title=Dulal Panda on NISER |date=2017-12-19 |website=National Institute of Science Education and Research |access-date=2017-12-19}}</ref> and subsequently, did his post-doctoral work at the [[University of California, Santa Barbara]] during 1998–2000 as a research associate.<ref name="Dulal Panda, Ph.D. profile in India Cancer Research Database">{{Cite web |url=http://www.incredb.org/investigator.php?incredb_id=14 |title=Dulal Panda, Ph.D. profile in India Cancer Research Database |date=2017-12-19 |website=www.incredb.org |access-date=2017-12-19}}</ref> On his return to India, he joined the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay]] in 2000 as an assistant professor at the School of Bioscience and Bioengineering and has been serving the institute since then.<ref name="Panda, D - Faculty profile">{{Cite web |url=http://www.bio.iitb.ac.in/people/faculty/panda-d |title=Panda, D - Faculty profile |date=2017-12-19 |website=www.bio.iitb.ac.in |language=en-US |access-date=2017-12-19}}</ref> During this period, he became an associate professor in 2003 and a professor in 2007,<ref name="Prof. Dulal Panda on IITB Bio">{{Cite web |url=http://www.bio.iitb.ac.in/~panda/ |title=Prof. Dulal Panda on IITB Bio |date=2017-12-19 |website=www.bio.iitb.ac.in |access-date=2017-12-19}}</ref> and serves as a chair professor at the School of Bioscience and Bioengineering. In between, he was also associated with the scientific programs in life sciences of the [[Department of Science and Technology (India)|Department of Science and Technology]] during 2003–04.<ref name="1997-05 - Department Of Science & Technology">{{Cite web |url=http://dst.gov.in/1997-05 |title=1997-05 - Department Of Science & Technology |date=2017-12-19 |website=dst.gov.in |language=en |access-date=2017-12-19}}</ref>

Panda resides in [[Powai]], a neighborhood of [[Mumbai]], in [[Maharashtra]].<ref name="NASI fellows">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=P |title=NASI fellows |date=2017-11-12 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India |access-date=2017-11-12}}</ref>

== Legacy ==
[[File:Microtubule structure.png|thumb|235px|[[Microtubule]] structure]]
Panda's cell biological research covered the fields of [[eukaryotic]] and [[prokaryotic]] cell division, dynamics of [[microtubules]] and [[FtsZ]], [[chemotherapeutic]] treatment protocols, development of FtsZ-targeted [[antibacterial]] drugs as well as [[biomolecular]] [[spectroscopy]].<ref name="Panda, D - Faculty profile" /> His work on the dynamics of microtubules is known to have assisted in the development of anti-cancer and anti-fungal drugs and the research on FtsZ assembly has contributed to widening the understanding of their [[polymerization]] dynamics.<ref name="Dulal Panda, Ph.D. profile in India Cancer Research Database" /> He holds one patent for the development of an antibacterial drug<ref name="Dulal Panda on NISER" /> and has four other patent applications pending approval.<ref name="Dulal Panda Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications - Justia Patents Search">{{Cite web |url=https://patents.justia.com/inventor/dulal-panda |title=Dulal Panda Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications - Justia Patents Search |date=2017-12-19 |website=patents.justia.com |language=en |access-date=2017-12-19}}</ref> His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles<ref name="On ResearchGate">{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/54300105_Dulal_Panda |title=On ResearchGate |date=2017-12-17 |access-date=2017-12-17}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} and the online article repository of the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] has listed 50 of them.<ref name="Browse by Fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Panda=3ADulal=3A=3A.html |title=Browse by Fellow |date=2017-12-17 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |access-date=2017-12-17}}</ref> Besides, he has contributed chapters to books published by others.<ref name="WilsonCorreia2010">{{cite book|author1=Leslie Wilson|author2=John J. Correia (Eds.)|author3=Bhabhatarak Bhattacharya, Sonia Kapoor Dulal Panda (chapter authors)|title=Microtubules, in vitro|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lVGzWW414LMC&pg=PR9|date=3 July 2010|publisher=Academic Press|isbn=978-0-08-088858-3|pages=9–|chapter=Fluorescence Spectroscopic Methods to Analyze Drug-tubulin Interactions}}</ref><ref name="GualerziBrandi2013">{{cite book|author1=Claudio O. Gualerzi|author2=Letizia Brandi|author3=Attilio Fabbretti, Cynthia L. Pon|title=Antibiotics: Targets, Mechanisms and Resistance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4TWyAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT22|date=5 September 2013|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-3-527-65970-8|pages=22–}}</ref> He serves as the associate editor of [[BioMed Central]] of [[Springer Nature]]<ref name="Dulal Panda, Associate Editor, Editorial Board at Biomed Central Ltd. - Relationship Science">{{Cite web |url=https://relationshipscience.com/dulal-panda-p164317156 |title=Dulal Panda, Associate Editor, Editorial Board at Biomed Central Ltd. - Relationship Science |date=2017-12-19 |website=Relationship Science |language=en |access-date=2017-12-19}}</ref> and was a member of the national committee of the 1st International Conference on Nutraceuticals and Chronic Diseases held in [[Kochi]], [[Kerala]] in September 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.isncd.com/committee.html |title=INCD 2017 - Committee Members |last=Sahirudeen |first=Amanat |date=2017-12-19 |website=www.isncd.com |language=en |access-date=2017-12-19}}</ref>

== Awards and honors ==
Dulal Panda received the Fogarty International Research Collaboration Award (FIRCA) of the [[John E. Fogarty International Center]] in 2001.<ref name="Dulal Panda on NISER" /> and the Swarnajayathi Fellowship of the [[Department of Science and Technology (India)|Department of Science and Technology]] in 2004.<ref name="Awards & Fellows in Professional Bodies">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ircc.iitb.ac.in/IRCC-Webpage/rnd/awards1.jsp |title=Awards & Fellows in Professional Bodies |date=2017-12-19 |website=IIT Bombay |access-date=2017-12-19}}</ref> The [[Department of Biotechnology]] of the Government of India awarded him the [[National Bioscience Award for Career Development]], one of the highest Indian science awards in 2005.<ref name="Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development">{{Cite web |url=http://dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/list_of_bioscience_awardees.pdf |title=Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development |date=2016 |publisher=Department of Biotechnology |access-date=2017-11-20}}</ref> He was chosen for the P. S. Sharma Memorial Award of the Society of Biological Chemists in 2007, the same year as he was selected as a member of [[Guha Research Conference]].<ref name="Panda, D - Faculty profile" /> He received the S. C. Bhattacharya Award of IIT Bombay in 2009<ref name="Awards at IITB">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ircc.iitb.ac.in/IRCC-Webpage/rnd/AwardsAndFellows.jsp |title=Awards at IITB |date=2017-12-19 |website=www.ircc.iitb.ac.in |access-date=2017-12-19}}</ref> and in 2010, he received two awards, the CDRI Award for Excellence in Drug Research of the [[Central Drug Research Institute]]<ref name="CDRI Award for Excellence in Drug Research">{{Cite web |url=http://www.cdri.res.in/pdf/CDRI_Awards_Notification.pdf |title=CDRI Award for Excellence in Drug Research |date=2017-12-19 |website=Central Drug Research Institute |access-date=2017-12-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220063006/http://www.cdri.res.in/pdf/CDRI_Awards_Notification.pdf |archive-date=20 December 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and the Outstanding Research Investigator Award of the Science Research Council of the [[Department of Atomic Energy]].<ref name="Awards & Fellows in Professional Bodies" /> The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] honored him with the G. N. Ramachandran Gold Medal in 2012.<ref name="G. N. Ramachandran Gold Medal">{{Cite web |url=http://csirhrdg.res.in/list_gnr_2010.htm |title=G. N. Ramachandran Gold Medal |date=2017-12-19 |website=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |access-date=2017-12-19}}</ref>

Panda, who holds a TATA Innovation Fellowship of the [[Department of Biotechnology]],<ref name="Prof. Dulal Panda on IITB Bio" /> was elected as a fellow by the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]] in 2005.<ref name="NASI Year Book 2015">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/Year%20Book%202015.pdf |title=NASI Year Book 2015 |date=2017-12-17 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India |access-date=2017-12-17}}</ref> He received the elected fellowship of the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] in 2008.<ref name="Fellowship - Indian Academy of Sciences">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/listing/fellows/P |title=Fellowship - Indian Academy of Sciences |date=2017-12-17 |website=www.ias.ac.in |language=en |access-date=2017-12-17}}</ref>

== Selected bibliography ==
=== Chapters ===
* {{cite book|author1=Leslie Wilson|author2=John J. Correia (Eds.)|author3=Bhabhatarak Bhattacharya, Sonia Kapoor Dulal Panda (chapter authors)|title=Microtubules, in vitro|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lVGzWW414LMC&pg=PR9|date=3 July 2010|publisher=Academic Press|isbn=978-0-08-088858-3|pages=9–|chapter=Fluorescence Spectroscopic Methods to Analyze Drug-tubulin Interactions}}
* {{cite book|author1=Claudio O. Gualerzi|author2=Letizia Brandi|author3=Attilio Fabbretti, Cynthia L. Pon|title=Antibiotics: Targets, Mechanisms and Resistance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4TWyAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT22|date=5 September 2013|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-3-527-65970-8|pages=22–}}

=== General articles ===
* {{Cite journal |url=http://jpp.org.in/index.php/jpp/article/view/133 |title=Dr. Bablu Bhattacharyya: A Journey of Four Decades with Tubulin |journal=Journal of Proteins & Proteomics |volume=6 |issue=3 |last1=Panda |first1=Dulal |last2=Manna |first2=Tapas K |year=2006 |access-date=2017-12-19}}

=== Scientific articles ===
* {{Cite journal |last1=Jaiswal |first1=Richa |last2=Patel |first2=Ronak Y. |last3=Asthana |first3=Jayant |last4=Jindal |first4=Bhavya |last5=Balaji |first5=Petety V. |last6=Panda |first6=Dulal |date=2010-10-08 |title=E93R Substitution of Escherichia coli FtsZ Induces Bundling of Protofilaments, Reduces GTPase Activity, and Impairs Bacterial Cytokinesis |journal=Journal of Biological Chemistry |language=en |volume=285 |issue=41 |pages=31796–31805 |doi=10.1074/jbc.m110.138719 |issn=0021-9258 |pmid=20667825|pmc=2951251 }}
* {{Cite journal |last1=Balakrishna |first1=Maravanji S. |last2=Suresh |first2=D. |last3=Rai |first3=Ankit |last4=Mague |first4=Joel T. |last5=Panda |first5=Dulal |date=2010-10-04 |title=Dinuclear Copper(I) Complexes Containing Cyclodiphosphazane Derivatives and Pyridyl Ligands: Synthesis, Structural Studies, and Antiproliferative Activity toward Human Cervical and Breast Cancer Cells |journal=Inorganic Chemistry |volume=49 |issue=19 |pages=8790–8801 |doi=10.1021/ic100944d |pmid=20812680 |issn=0020-1669}}
* {{Cite journal |last1=Banerjee |first1=Mithu |last2=Singh |first2=Parminder |last3=Panda |first3=Dulal |date=2010-08-01 |title=Curcumin suppresses the dynamic instability of microtubules, activates the mitotic checkpoint and induces apoptosis in MCF-7 cells |journal=FEBS Journal |language=en |volume=277 |issue=16 |pages=3437–3448 |doi=10.1111/j.1742-4658.2010.07750.x |pmid=20646066 |issn=1742-4658|doi-access=free }}

== See also ==
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* [[Cytoskeleton]]
* [[Tubulin]]
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{{portal|India|Biology|Medicine}}

== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== External links ==

* {{Cite web |url=http://www.iitb.ac.in/en/employee/prof-dulal-panda |title=Prof. Dulal Panda - IIT Bombay |date=2017-12-19 |website=www.iitb.ac.in |language=en |access-date=2017-12-19}}

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