Vijaya Melnick

Vijaya Lakshmi Melnick (born 19 November 1937)

Early life and education Melnick was born Vijaya Lakshmi in Calicut, Kerala, India. She attended a girls' school run by Franciscan nuns, where she received an English medium school education. She then attended a girls' college and an Agricultural College. In her senior year at the Agricultural College, she won an International Peace Scholarship to study in the United States and enrolled at the University of Wisconsin. She obtained her Master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Wisconsin and continued there for her postdoctoral training in cell biology.

At the University of the District of Columbia, Melnick holds the rank of Professor Emeritus of Biological and Environmental Sciences. Here, she also held the post of the Director of the Office of Sponsored Research & Programs. At the Georgetown University Medical Center, she has held the post of Associate Director at the International Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Immunology. She is a member of the Health Care Ethics Faculty at the Howard University Medical College.

Publications Books Alzheimer's Dementia: Dilemmas in Clinical Research Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society Minorities in Science: The Challenge for Change in Biomedicine Physiological studies on fruit development using in vivo organ transplantation (1964); Boarder Babies and Drug Affected Children in the District of Columbia: A Case for Public/private Partnerships Comprehensive Planning and Coordinated Services (1992)

Papers (Jointly with Daniel Melnick) "Innovation and Development: India as an Example".

Personal She and her husband have one son.