Srabani Mukherjee
Dr. Mukherjee is at present an assistant director at the National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health (NIRRH) in Mumbai, a premier research institution under the purview of the Indian Council of Medical Research and the Ministry of Health. She has earned her Bachelor of Science and her Masters degree in Physiology from the University of Calcutta. She received her doctorate in Biochemistry from the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology. Subsequently, she has been affiliated as a research associate with the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and the P.D. Hinduja National Hospital and Research Centre. She received Post-doctoral training at the University of Texas Health Science Centre in San Antonio, USA. She is a Fellow in 'Frontiers in Reproduction Marine Biological Laboratory” at MBL, Woods Hole, USA. She is a member of the Indian Society for the Study of Reproduction and Fertility (ISSRF) and has been awarded several research grants to carry out her research work. She has extensive hands-on expertise in a variety of current molecular biology techniques, protein, and cell culture practices. Her position as head of the flow cytometry facility at NIRRH and her attendance at various pieces of training have made her highly experienced in this technique. Dr. Mukherjee has delivered many talks at various conferences and authored several publications in the field of molecular biology and reproduction. She has been pursuing active research over the last twenty years and her keen interests currently lie in infertility studies with a focus on the Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, a common endocrinopathy in females of reproductive age. She is presently working towards understanding the pathophysiology of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) through genetic profiling and proteomics studies.