Name: 

Sankar L. Adhya

 

Education: 

    1958 B.S.   -- University of Calcutta

    1960 M.S.  -- University of Calcutta

    1963 Ph.D. -- University of Calcutta

    1967 Ph.D. -- University of Wisconsin

Brief chronology of employment: 

    1966-1968    -- Research Associate, Department of Biology,
                                University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

    1968-1969    -- Research Associate, Department of Biological
                                Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

    1969-1970    -- Scientist, Department of Biochemistry,
                                Bose Institute, Calcutta, India

    1971-1975    -- Visiting Scientist, Laboratory of Molecular
                                Biology, National Cancer Institute, National
                                Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

    1975-1980    -- Geneticist, Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
                                National Cancer Institute, National Institutes
                                of Health, Bethesda, MD

    1980-present -- Chief, Developmental Genetics Section, Laboratory
                                of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute,
                                National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

    1990-present -- Adjunct Professor, Department of Genetics, George
                                Washington University, Washington, DC

Societies: 

        Member, American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

 Member, American Society for Virologists

 Member, Genetics Society of America

 Elected Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology

 Elected Member, National Academy of Sciences, USA

Honors:

    Awarded Calcutta University Medal (in Biochemistry), l960

    Awarded Ghosh Research Scholarship (University of Calcutta),
        1961-1962

    Awarded Graduate School Fellowship (University of Wisconsin),
        1964-1965

    Awarded Stauffer Chemical Research Fellowship (University of
        Wisconsin), 1965-1966

    Recognized for sustaining a high quality of work performance
        (NCI), 1981

    Recognized for special achievement by Director, NCI, 1982

    Received NIH Director's Award, 1991

    Divisional Lecture, American Society of Microbiology, 1991

    Stone Memorial Lecture, Pennsylvania State University, 1995

Other scientific recognition

    Co-organized and taught a course, with Dr. M. Levine, University
        of Michigan, on "Molecular Biology of Bacterial Viruses" 
        at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, in l970.

    Session chairman of Gordon Research Conferences "Biological
        Regulatory Mechanisms", 1974, 1979, and 1986

    Co-organized the Fifth International Conference on "Biology of
        Temperate Phage", 1975

    Organized the "DNA Insertion, Transposition and Plasmids"
        conference in 1976 at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory at the
        invitation of Dr. J.D. Watson, Director.

    Co-edited a book Entitled DNA Insertion Elements, Episomes and
        Plasmids, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., 1977

    Organized the "Phage and Bacterial Regulatory Mechanisms" Meetings,
        Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, 1983, 1984, 1985,
        and 1986

    Reviewer of Grant proposals for National Science Foundation

    External Examiner of a Ph.D. Thesis, Madurai University, India, 1979

    Member, Board of Examiners of a Ph.D. Thesis, Harvard University, 1980

    Member, Board of Examiners of a Ph.D. Thesis, University of
        Maryland, 1983

    Member, Board of Examiners of a Ph.D. Thesis, University of
        Maryland, 1989

    Teaches the FAES Graduate Course (Biology 415) jointly with Dr.
        S. Gottesman since 1978

    Guest Lecturer in Microbiology, George Washington University,
        1978, 1979, 1980 and 1982

    Guest Lecturer in Biochemistry Graduate Course, University of
        Maryland, Catonsville, Maryland, 1986

    Guest Lecturer in Microbial Genetics, Uniformed Services
        University, 1981, 1987

    Guest Lecturer in Genetics, Georgetown University, 1989-present

    Served as a member of the Biomedical Research Group I Study
        Section, NIH, 1981

    Served as an ad hoc member of the Microbial, Physiology and
        Genetics Study Section, NIH, 1984

    Served as a member of the Scientific Review Board of Counselors
        of the Brookhaven National Laboratory, U.S. Department of
        Energy, 1985

    Recognized for sustained High Quality Work Performance by
        Director, NCI, 1981

    Recognized for Special Achievement by Director, NCI, 1982

    Associate Editor of Virology, 1977-1986

    Member, Editorial Board, J. Bacteriology, 1988-1993

    Chairman, Plenary Session, Genetics Society of America Annual
        Meeting, San Francisco, 1987

    Served as a member of the Human Genome Organization Study
        Section, NIH, 1990

    Member, Board of Examiners of a Ph.D. thesis, George
        Washington University, 1992

NCI administrative responsibilities:

    Member, Tenure and Promotion Review Board (for GS13 through
        SES scientists), Division of Cancer Biology and Diagnosis,
        National Cancer Institute, 1982-1994.

Patents:

    Pastan, I., FitzGerald, D.J.P., and Adhya, S.:  Recombinant
                Pseudomonas exotoxin:  construction of an active 
                immunotoxin with low side effects (4,892, 827).

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