Jyotsna Dhawan

Jyotsna Dhawan is an Indian Cell and Developmental Biologist, Emeritus Scientist at Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology and Visiting Professor, Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem). Dhawan's research has focused on adult stem cell function and skeletal muscle regeneration. Dhawan is the current (2019-2021) President of the Indian Society for Cell Biology and the Indian Society of Developmental Biologists (2017–2020). Dhawan was elected as a fellow to the Indian National Science Academy in 2019.

Early life and education Dhawan's father Satish Dhawan was a faculty at the Indian Institute of Science and Dhawan's mother Nalini, was a cytogeneticist. She contemplated quitting her master's degree however, a summer internship in yeast genetics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, convinced her to pursue a PhD. She serves as the Scientist In Charge of Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology’s iHub, an innovation space with an incubation center for biomedical startups and has served on several scientific review committees, scientific task forces and advisory boards at the national and institutional level. She has also been a part on the editorial board of Physiological Genomics, BBRC and Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology.

Selected publications