Rashna Bhandari

Rashna Bhandari is head, Laboratory of Cell Signalling at the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad. Bhandari is pursuing her study on signal transduction in biological systems, with particular emphasis on understanding the role of inositol pyrophosphates in physiology and metabolism.

Education Bhandari obtained her bachelor's degree in human biology from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, followed by post graduation and doctorate in biological sciences from the Indian Institute of Science.

Career Bhandari joined Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics in 2008 as a staff scientist.

Post her doctorate at Indian Institute of Science, Bhandari worked with Sandhya Srikant Visweswariah on signal transduction by the membrane-bound guanylyl cyclase, GCC, which is involved in maintaining fluid and ion homeostasis across the intestinal membrane.

In 2001, Bhandari joined John Kuriyan laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley as a post-doctoral fellow to work on the structural biology and biochemistry of proteins involved in cell signaling.

Bhandari believes that ambition leads to success and not gender.

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