Vidita Vaidya

Vidita Vaidya
Residence India
Nationality Indian
Fields Neuroscience with a focus on studying the neurocircuitry of emotion
Institutions Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
Alma mater St. Xavier's College,Mumbai
Yale University
Doctoral advisor Professor Ronald Duman at Yale University
Notable awards Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, 2015, National Bioscience Award for Career Development, 2012
Spouse Ajit
Children daughter

Vidita Vaidya is a Senior Overseas Research Fellow of the Wellcome Trust and was previously an associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences. She works in neuroscience and molecular psychiatry at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.[1] Her work has garnered the 2015 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for Medical Sciences.[2] She was also a recipient of the National Bioscience Award for Career Development in 2012.[3]

Education

Vidita received her undergraduate degree from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai in Life sciences and Biochemistry. She obtained her doctoral degree in Neuroscience at Yale University. Her postdoctoral work was done at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and at the University of Oxford in UK.[4]

Career

She joined the Dept of Biological Sciences, TIFR in March, 2000. She has been a Wellcome Trust Overseas Senior Research Fellow and an Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences.[4]

Work areas

Her publications and lab works include

  1. Understanding the neurocircuitry of emotion,
  2. its modulation by experience and
  3. the alterations in emotional neurocircuitry that underlie complex psychiatric disorders like depression.[5]

Her site at TIFR hosts a complete list of her publications.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Women in Science IAS - Vidita" (PDF). Retrieved March 20, 2014.
  2. ↑ "List of recipients" (PDF). Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (SSB) for Science and Technology 2015. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  3. ↑ "Awardees of N-BIOS for the year 2012" (PDF). AWARDEES OF NATIONAL BIOSCIENCE AWARDS FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT. Department of Biotechnology, India. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  4. 1 2 "TIFR - Principal Investigator". Retrieved March 20, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Vidita Vaidya, Department of Biological Sciences, TIFR, Mumbai". Tifr.res.in. Retrieved 2014-03-24.
  6. ↑ "Publications". Tifr.res.in. Retrieved 2014-03-24.


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