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{{Short description|Microbiologist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=February 2019}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Sankar Adhya
| image = Sankar Adhya.png
| image_size =
| alt = NIH photo of Adhya
| birth_place = [[Kolkata, India]]
| fields =
{{plainlist |
* [[Molecular biology]]
* [[Genetics]]
* [[Microbiology]]
}}
| workplaces =
{{plainlist |
* [[National Institutes of Health]]
}}
| alma_mater =
{{plainlist |
* [[University of Calcutta]]
* [[University of Wisconsin-Madison]]
}}
| known_for =
{{plainlist |
* [[Bacterial transcription]]
* [[Gene regulation]]
* [[Bacteriophage]]s
}}
}}

'''Sankar Adhya''' (born 4 October 1937) is a molecular biologist and geneticist at the [[National Cancer Institute]] (NCI)<ref name="Adhya NCI">{{cite web | url=https://ccr.cancer.gov/Laboratory-of-Molecular-Biology/sankar-adhya| title=Sankar Adhya Ph.D.|agency=National Cancer Institute|access-date=2016-11-17}}</ref> and a member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]].<ref name="Adhya NAS">{{cite web | url=http://nrc88.nas.edu/pnas_search/memberDetails.aspx?ctID=66170| title=Sankar Adhya |agency=National Academy of Sciences|access-date=2016-11-17}}</ref> He is best known for his work on [[bacterial transcription]] and the biology of [[lambda phage|bacteriophage lambda]]. He has made important contributions regarding the physical basis of [[transcriptional regulation]] in bacteria, the lysis/lysogeny switch in [[lambda phage]], the organization of the bacterial [[nucleoid]], and [[phage therapy]].

==Life==
Adhya was born in [[Kolkata|Kolkata, India]] and studied chemistry at the [[University of Calcutta]] as an undergraduate. He later obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Calcutta in [[biochemistry]] and a second Ph.D. in [[genetics]] from the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]]. Following postdoctoral training at [[Stanford University]], the [[Bose Institute]], and the [[University of Rochester]], he joined the NCI's newly formed Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in 1971.<ref name="oral history">{{cite web|last1=Adhya|first1=Sankar|author2=Gant, Jason|title=NCI Laboratory of Molecular Biology Oral History Project|url=https://history.nih.gov/archives/downloads/2008%2010%2001%20Sankar%20Adhya%201%20-%20Oral%20History.pdf |date=1 October 2008}}</ref><ref name="oral history2">{{cite web|last1=Adhya|first1=Sankar|author2=Gant, Jason|title=NCI Laboratory of Molecular Biology Oral History Project|url=https://history.nih.gov/archives/downloads/2008%2010%2008%20Sankar%20Adhya%202%20-%20Oral%20History.pdf|date=8 October 2008}}</ref> He has remained at the [[National Institutes of Health|NIH]] since 1971 and is presently Head of the LMB's Developmental Genetics section.<ref name = "Adhya NCI" />

==Awards and honors==
* Elected to the [[National Academy of Sciences]] in 1994.<ref name = "Adhya NAS" />
* Elected to the [[Indian National Science Academy]] in 1995.<ref name = "Adhya NCI" />
* Elected to the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 2009.<ref name = "Adhya NCI" />
* Elected to the [[Hungarian Academy of Sciences]] in 2010 as a foreign member.<ref name = "Adhya NCI" />

==Selected publications==
* {{cite journal|last1=Adhya|first1=S|last2=Gottesman|first2=M|title=Control of transcription termination|journal=Annual Review of Biochemistry|date=1978|volume=47|issue=1|pages=967–996|pmid=354508|doi=10.1146/annurev.bi.47.070178.004535}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Irani|first1=M|last2=Orosz|first2=L|last3=Adhya|first3=S|title=A control element within a structural gene: the gal operon of Escherichia coli|journal=Cell|date=1983|volume=32|issue=3|pages=783–788|pmid=6299576|doi=10.1016/0092-8674(83)90064-8|s2cid=41077642}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Adhya|first1=S|title=Multipartite genetic control elements: communication by DNA loop|journal=Annual Review of Genetics|date=1989|volume=23|issue=1|pages=227–250|pmid=2694932|doi=10.1146/annurev.ge.23.120189.001303}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Merril|first1=C|last2=Biswas|first2=B|last3=Carlton|first3=R|last4=Jensen|first4=N|last5=Creed|first5=G|last6=Zullo|first6=S|last7=Adhya|first7=S|title=Long-circulating bacteriophage as antibacterial agents|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|date=1996|volume=93|issue=8|pages=3188–3192|pmid=8622911|doi=10.1073/pnas.93.8.3188|pmc=39580}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Merril|first1=C|last2=Scholl|first2=D|last3=Adhya|first3=S|title=The prospect for bacteriophage therapy in Western medicine|journal=Nature Reviews Drug Discovery|date=2003|volume=2|issue=6|pages=489–497|pmid=12776223|doi=10.1038/nrd1111|s2cid=23298353|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1233513}}
*{{cite journal|last1=Oppenheim|first1=A|last2=Kobiler|first2=O|last3=Stavans|first3=J|last4=Court|first4=D|last5=Adhya|first5=S|title=Switches in bacteriophage lambda development|journal=Annual Review of Genetics|date=2005|volume=39|issue=1|pages=409–429|pmid=16285866|doi=10.1146/annurev.genet.39.073003.113656}}

==References==
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[[Category:Indian molecular biologists]]
[[Category:Genetic epidemiologists]]
[[Category:American geneticists]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:University of Calcutta alumni]]
[[Category:Stanford University alumni]]
[[Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences alumni]]
[[Category:1937 births]]
[[Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences]]
[[Category:Foreign Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy]]
[[Category:Fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology]]

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