GAGANDEEP KANG

April 28, 2019

Gagandeep Kang has become the first Indian woman to be awarded Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS), United Kingdom.

About:

Gagandeep Kang is a clinician scientist, who is acclaimed for her key role in the development of Rotavac.
She is currently the executive director of the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), Faridabad, an autonomous institute of the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology.
Awards and Honours:
- She was awarded the prestigious Infosys Prize in Life Sciences in 2016 for her contributions to understanding the natural history of rotavirus and other infectious diseases.
- Recently she became the first Indian woman scientist to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS).
- She is also the first Indian and the first woman to edit Manson's Textbook of Tropical Medicine.