Can difficult diseases have a cure, is computational biology the answer to this problem?

Neelanjana Sengupta, a computational biologist almost by accident. She had been a curious child who felt bothered unless she was able to grasp, at least conceptually, how ‘things worked’.

She went on to study physics at the Bachelors and the Master's levels, majoring in Nuclear Physics in the latter. However, a half year stint in a theoretical polymer physics group at IISC Bangalore kindled a new interest in ‘soft matter’, which broadly encompasses research in systems susceptible to thermal fluctuations. Subsequently, she went on to earn her PhD at the University of California, Irvine in the domain of computer simulations of bio molecular systems in 2008.

Neelanjana Sengupta is currently serving the Department of Biological Sciences at IISER Kolkata in 2016 as a ‘computational biophysicist'. She is immensely grateful for the changing scientific landscape in the country that allows interdisciplinary research such as hers to flourish.

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