page_title: Dulal Panda
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Dulal Panda / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Diagram showing a microtubule and the alpha/beta-tubulin heterodimer it's being constructed from.
context_page_description: Dulal Panda is an Indian cell biologist and the chair professor at the department of biosciences and bioengineering of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Known for his studies on microtubule dynamics and FtsZ assembly dynamics, Panda is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, India. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences in 2005.
context_section_description: Panda's cell biological research covered the fields of eukaryotic and prokaryotic cell division, dynamics of microtubules and FtsZ, chemotherapeutic treatment protocols, development of FtsZ-targeted antibacterial drugs as well as biomolecular spectroscopy. His work on the dynamics of microtubules is known to have assisted in the development of anti-cancer and anti-fungal drugs and the research on FtsZ assembly has contributed to widening the understanding of their polymerization dynamics. He holds one patent for the development of an antibacterial drug and has four other patent applications pending approval. His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and the online article repository of the Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 50 of them. Besides, he has contributed chapters to books published by others. He serves as the associate editor of BioMed Central of Springer Nature and was a member of the national committee of the 1st International Conference on Nutraceuticals and Chronic Diseases held in Kochi, Kerala in September 2016.
caption: Microtubule structure
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