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'''Sandhya Srikant Visweswariah''' is a scientist and academic at the [[Indian Institute of Science]], [[Bangalore]], India. She was the Chairperson of the Department of Developmental Biology and Genetics<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.dbg.iisc.ernet.in/ | title=Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics at IISc | access-date=2016-07-16 | archive-date=2020-01-10 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200110120534/http://www.dbg.iisc.ernet.in/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> and the Co-chair of the Department of Bioengineering,<ref name="ernet.in">{{cite web|url=http://www.be.iisc.ernet.in/|title=bsse · iisc|website=www.be.iisc.ernet.in|access-date=2016-07-16|archive-date=2018-12-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181223174040/http://be.iisc.ernet.in/|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Indian Institute of Science]]. She additionally holds the position of Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.uib.no/en/med|title=Faculty of Medicine}}</ref> [[University of Bergen]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uib.no/en/node/36362|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002101946/http://www.uib.no/en/node/36362|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 2, 2013|title=University of Bergen|website=University of Bergen}}</ref> Norway. Her research involves the investigation of the mechanism of [[signal transduction]] via [[cyclic nucleotides]], [[phosphodiesterases]] and novel [[cyclase]]s in bacteria.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mrdg.iisc.ernet.in/sandhyav/Research.htm |title=Research Activities |accessdate=2016-07-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322145700/http://www.mrdg.iisc.ernet.in/sandhyav/Research.htm |archivedate=2016-03-22 }}</ref> Most recently, she was awarded a [[Bill and Melinda Gates Grand Challenges]] Explorations Grant<ref name="grandchallenges.org">{{cite web|url=http://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/about|title=About Grand Challenges - Grand Challenges|website=gcgh.grandchallenges.org}}</ref> for her proposal entitled "A Small Animal Model of ETEC-Mediated Diarrhea".<ref name="award">{{cite web|url=http://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/grant/small-animal-model-etec-mediated-diarrhea|title=A Small Animal Model of ETEC-Mediated Diarrhea - Grand Challenges|website=gcgh.grandchallenges.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thelifeofscience.com/2018/09/28/sandhyas-gusto-guts-affirmative-action/|title=Sandhya's gusto for guts and affirmative action|date=2018-09-28|website=The Life of Science|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-02-16}}</ref>

==Education==
Visweswariah completed her [[Bachelor of Science]] in 1977 at [[Osmania University]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.osmania.ac.in|title=Osmania University|website=www.osmania.ac.in|access-date=2018-11-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140516013433/http://www.osmania.ac.in/|archive-date=2014-05-16|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Hyderabad]], majoring in [[Botany]], [[Chemistry]] and [[Zoology]]. She then obtained a [[Master of Science]] degree in chemistry from the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur]] in 1980. She proceeded to enrol at the [[PhD]] programme at the Department of Biochemistry,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://biochem.iisc.ernet.in|title=Department of Biochemistry|website=biochem.iisc.ernet.in}}</ref> [[Indian Institute of Science]] and was awarded her doctorate in 1987.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dbg.iisc.ernet.in/sandhyav/index.htm |title=Prof. Sandhya S. Visweswariah |accessdate=2017-11-08 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026170830/http://dbg.iisc.ernet.in/sandhyav/index.htm |archivedate=2017-10-26 }}</ref>

==Career==
Visweswariah started her career as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Astra Research Centre, [[Bangalore]] in 1987-1988. After a year at the Astra Research Centre, she was promoted to a scientist position at the same organization, where she stayed on until 1993. In 1993, she was appointed as Assistant Professor at the Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics,<ref name="ernet.in1">{{cite web|url=http://www.mrdg.iisc.ernet.in/|title=Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics at IISc|website=www.mrdg.iisc.ernet.in|access-date=2016-07-16|archive-date=2020-01-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200110120534/http://www.mrdg.iisc.ernet.in/|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Indian Institute of Science]], where she has held a position since, being promoted to Associate Professor in 1995 and then to Professor in 2005.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/20556/overview|title=Loop {{!}} Sandhya Srikant Visweswariah|website=loop.frontiersin.org|access-date=2019-02-16}}</ref> She is currently the Chairperson of the Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics,<ref name="ernet.in1"/> [[Indian Institute of Science]], [[Bangalore]] and Co-chair of the Centre for Biosystems Science and Engineering,<ref name="ernet.in"/> [[Indian Institute of Science]]. Over the course of 29 years as faculty at the [[Indian Institute of Science]], Visweswariah has mentored more than 30 PhD students.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dbg.iisc.ernet.in/sandhyav/Lab%20Members.htm |title=Lab Members |accessdate=2016-07-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817153850/http://mrdg.iisc.ernet.in/sandhyav/Lab%20Members.htm |archivedate=2016-08-17 }}</ref>

==Membership in professional bodies and editorial boards==
Visweswariah is a fellow of the [[Indian National Science Academy]]<ref>[http://insaindia.org.in/detail.php?id=P13-1631 Article title] {{dead link|date=March 2018}}</ref> and the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]]: Third World Organisation for women in science.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Visweswariah,_Prof._Sandhya_Srikant|title=Fellowship - Indian Academy of Sciences|website=www.ias.ac.in}}</ref> She is a life member of the Society of Biological Chemists (India),<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.iisc.ernet.in/sbci/ | title=SBC India}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iisc.ernet.in/sbci/images/LIST%20-OF%20-LIFE-MEMBERS.pdf |title=List of Life Members |website= iisc.ernet.in}}</ref> Indian Society of Cell Biology<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iscb.org.in/life_members_as_on_13072016.html |title=Indian Society of Cell Biology - Life Members |accessdate=2016-07-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160816031954/http://www.iscb.org.in/life_members_as_on_13072016.html |archivedate=2016-08-16 }}</ref> (1995–present) and the Society of Research in Reproduction, India (1994–present). Additionally, she is a member of Guha Research Council, India (1997–present), the Alliance for Cell Signalling<ref>{{cite web|url=http://afcs.lbl.gov/|title=Test Page for the Nginx HTTP Server on Fedora|website=afcs.lbl.gov|access-date=2016-07-16|archive-date=2021-01-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126050438/http://afcs.lbl.gov/|url-status=dead}}</ref> (1997–present), the [[Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Structural Genomics Consortium|TB Structural Genomics Consortium]], the [[American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.asbmb.org/|title=ASBMB|website=www.asbmb.org}}</ref> (ASBMB), and the [[American Society for Microbiology]] (ASM).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.asm.org/ |title=Home |website=asm.org}}</ref>

She serves an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Cellular Endocrinology.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.frontiersin.org/journal/all/section/cellular-endocrinology|title=Cellular Endocrinology}}</ref>

==Awards and fellowships==
* Gold Medal in Botany, B.Sc. 1978.
* Indian National Science Academy Medal for Young Scientists, 1988.<ref>[http://www.insaindia.org.in/youngmedal.php Article title] {{dead link|date=March 2018|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>
* Awarded a Short-Term Associateship by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://dbt.nic.in/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=2016-07-16 |archive-date=2016-10-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161008173032/https://dbt.nic.in/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{better source needed|date=February 2019|reason=This was the login page for a webmail server.}} for a three-month visit to [[University of Missouri]] at Columbia, United States, 1998.
* Recipient of [[Human Frontier Science Program]] (HFSP) Short Term Fellowship (2002) to visit [[University of California, Berkeley]] in the laboratory of Prof. John Kuriyan.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://jkweb.berkeley.edu/|title=Kuriyan Lab|website=jkweb.berkeley.edu|access-date=2016-07-16|archive-date=2022-10-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221011161339/https://jkweb.berkeley.edu/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hfsp.org/sites/www.hfsp.org/files/webfm/Executive/Annual%20Report%2020022003.pdf |title=Annual report|date=2002 |page=63 |website=hfsp.org |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180617093110/http://www.hfsp.org/sites/www.hfsp.org/files/webfm/Executive/Annual%20Report%2020022003.pdf |archive-date=17 June 2018}}</ref>
* Awarded the [[Central Drug Research Institute]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cdriindia.org/home.asp |title=Welcome to CDRI :::: Central Drug Research Institute |access-date=2016-07-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160722155859/http://www.cdriindia.org/home.asp |archive-date=2016-07-22 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Award for Excellence in Drug Research, 2005.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cdriindia.org/Web%20Notification.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2016-07-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216194753/http://www.cdriindia.org/Web%20Notification.pdf |archivedate=2016-02-16 }}</ref>
* Recipient of YT Thathachari Award 2009.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/IISc.-TIFR-scientists-receive-Thathachari-Award/article16014173.ece|title=IISc., TIFR scientists receive Thathachari Award|newspaper=The Hindu|date=4 April 2010|via=www.thehindu.com}}</ref>
* Recipient of a Royal Society International Joint Project with Dr. Roger Buxton, National Institute for Medical Research, UK,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709012857/http://www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 July 2011|title=MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London|date=9 July 2011}}</ref> London, 2008-2011.
* Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellowship,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usief.org.in/US-Fellows-2013-2014-Fulbright-Nehru-Senior-Research-Program.aspx|title=Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Program|website=www.usief.org.in|access-date=2016-07-16|archive-date=2020-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806203708/http://www.usief.org.in/US-Fellows-2013-2014-Fulbright-Nehru-Senior-Research-Program.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> 2011-2012,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.usief.org.in/2011-2012%20Fellows/Fulbright-Nehru%20Senior%20Research%20Fellowships/Dr.Sandhya-S.-Visweswariah.html |title=USIEF |accessdate=2016-07-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111216235252/http://www.usief.org.in/2011-2012%20Fellows/Fulbright-Nehru%20Senior%20Research%20Fellowships/Dr.Sandhya-S.-Visweswariah.html |archivedate=2011-12-16 }}</ref> spent at the lab of Dr. Sabine Ehrt,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://vivo.med.cornell.edu/display/cwid-sae2004|title=Ehrt, Sabine|website=vivo.med.cornell.edu}}</ref> Weill Cornell Medical College,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://weill.cornell.edu|title=Weill Cornell Medicine|website=weill.cornell.edu}}</ref> [[New York City]], United States.
* AstraZeneca Research Chair Professor, [[Indian Institute of Science]], August 2012 – 2015.
* JC Bose Fellow,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.serb.gov.in/jcbn.php|title=Intensification of Research in High Priority Area (IRHPA): Science and Engineering Research Board, Established through an Act of Parliament: SERB Act 2008, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India|website=www.serb.gov.in}}</ref> 2013–present.
* Recipient of a [[Grand Challenges In Global Health|Bill and Melinda Gates Grand Challenges]] Explorations Grant,<ref name="grandchallenges.org"/> 2014.<ref name="award"/>
*In 2018, she became the fellow of TWAS [https://twas.org/directory/visweswariah-sandhya .]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twas.org/directory/visweswariah-sandhya|title=Visweswariah, Sandhya|website=TWAS|language=en|access-date=2019-02-16}}</ref><ref>{{Cite tweet|user=iitkanpur |number=965922473182023680 |author=IIT Kanpur |title=#IITK Alumni in News #IISC #TWAS #Fellowship Prof. Sandhya S. Visweswariah (MSc2/CHM/1980), Professor and Chair of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics, IISc, Bangalore, has been elected as a fellow of 'The World Academy of Sciences' (TWAS) 2018. |date=20 February 2018 |access-date=24 February 2019}}</ref>
* National Science Chair, SERB 2023–present
* Provost's Visiting Professor, Imperial College London (Sept 2023-Sept 2024)

==Publications==
Visweswariah more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals and 5 book chapters to her credit, with a total [[citation]] count of over 2000. The full list of publications from the Visweswariah lab can be found on [[PubMed]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=sandhya+s+visweswariah|title=sandhya s visweswariah - PubMed - NCBI|last=pubmeddev|website=www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiaalliance.org/fellowsprofile/main/publication/id/335|title=India Alliance|website=www.indiaalliance.org|language=en|access-date=2019-02-16}}</ref> and [[ResearchGate]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sandhya_Visweswariah|title=Sandhya Visweswariah - PhD - Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru - IISC - Department of Developmental Biology and Genetics|website=www.researchgate.net}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mrdg.iisc.ernet.in/sandhya/Publications.htm|title=Publications|website=www.dbg.iisc.ernet.in|access-date=2019-02-16|archive-date=2019-02-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190216153220/http://www.mrdg.iisc.ernet.in/sandhya/Publications.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>

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