Who is Gagandeep Kang - the first woman Indian scientist inducted as Royal Society Fellow

She is currently working as executive director of the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI) in Faridabad. In 2016, she was awarded the Infosys Prize in Life Sciences for her work in public health when she was the chairperson of the WHO Southeast-Asia region's Immunisation Technical Advisory Group. 'Kanga is investigating the complex relationships between infection, gut function and physical and cognitive development, and seeking to build a stronger human immunology research in India. She has established strong training programmes for students and young faculty in clinical translational medicine aiming to build a cadre of clinical researchers studying relevant problems in India,' her profile on the Royal Society website reads. The 57-year-old researcher is a part of the list which includes Canadian-American mathematician of Indian origin Manjul Bharghava who is Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University in the United States. function catchException() {try{ twitterJSDidLoad(); }catch(e){}} function getAndroidVersion(ua) {ua = (ua || navigator.userAgent).toLowerCase(); var match = ua.match(/android\\s([0-9\\.]*)/);return match ? match[1] : false;}; var versions='4.2.2'; var versionArray=versions.split(',');var currentAndroidVersion=getAndroidVersion();if(versionArray.indexOf(currentAndroidVersion)!=-1){var blocks = document.getElementsByTagName('blockquote'); for(var i = 0; i < blocks.length; i++){blocks[i].innerHTML = '';}}DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Indian Expresshttp://c4uc.org/User-Profile/userId/8178.aspx