Manju Bansal specializes in the field of Molecular biophysics and is currently a professor of theoretical Biophysics group in Molecular Biophysicsunit of in the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Education
Doctor Bansal did her schooling from Hyderabad and Dehradun. She developed great interest in Science and later went ahead to earned her Bachelor of Science and Master of Science from Osmania University, Hyderabad. In 1972 she joined the Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore for her doctoral degree.
She got an opportunity to work under the guidance of biophysicist G. North. Ramachandran, on the theoretical modeling of the triple helical structure of the fibrous protein collagen.
She received her Doctor of Philosophy in 1977. Thereafter, she continued working at Indian Institute of Science as a post-doctoral fellow on left handed and other unusual structures of deoxyribonucleic acid till 1981.
She then went to Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, for a year and worked on the structure of filamentous phages.
Career
She is the founder director of the Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology at Bangalore. North. Doctor Bansal has been awarded an European Molecular Biology Laboratory Visiting Fellowship and Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Germany and Senior Fulbright Fellowship, United States of America. She has been a Visiting Professor at Rutgers University, United States of America, and Visiting Consultant at National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States of America.
Membership
Doctor Bansal has been awarded an European Molecular Biology Laboratory Visiting Fellowship and Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Germany and Senior Fulbright Fellowship, United States of America. She has been a Visiting Professor at Rutgers University, United States of America, and Visiting Consultant at National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States of America.