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{{short description|Indian Scientist}}
{{BLP sources|date=March 2017}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=May 2018}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Chitra Mandal
| birth_date = 1951
| workplaces = CSIR Indian Institute of Chemical Research
| alma_mater = University of Pennsylvania
IISC Bangalore
| awards = JC Bose National Fellowship
}}

'''Chitra Mandal''' is a chemical biologist in the field of [[biomolecule]]s and their applications in health and diseases. Later she worked on cancer therapeutics. She served as the acting Director of CSIR - Indian Institute of Chemical biology in [[Kolkata|Kolkata, India]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ex-Directors of CSIR-IICB |url=https://www.iicb.res.in/about-us/alumni/Directors |access-date=2024-08-25 |website=www.iicb.res.in}}</ref> during 2014–2015.

== Education and career ==
Mandal completed her PhD early on in her career from [[Indian Institute of Science|Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore]], in the area of [[Bioorganic chemistry|bio-organic chemistry]].{{citation needed|date=March 2017}} She went on to do post doctoral research at [[University of Pennsylvania]] in Philadelphia. Returning to India, she joined and serve CSIR-IICB as a senior scientist. Later she went on to head the Innovation Complex in Kolkata, and then its Director from 2010 to 2015. Her research area is mainly the [[glycosylation]] of biomolecules and their potential application in [[disease management (health)|disease management]], cancer and tumor [[immunology]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://iicb.res.in/divisionwiselistofscientists/cbid/cnmandal.html|title=Welcome to CSIR - Indian Institute of Chemical Biology|website=iicb.res.in|access-date=2017-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170605193105/http://iicb.res.in/divisionwiselistofscientists/cbid/cnmandal.html|archive-date=5 June 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> The lab is also investigating low cost healthcare solutions using medicinal plants indigenous to India, for example, the identification of a non-toxic herbal molecule in cancer cell treatments.

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20170605193105/http://iicb.res.in/divisionwiselistofscientists/cbid/cnmandal.html Cancer Biology & Inflammatory Disorder Division]

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* https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/csir-indian-institute-of-chemical-biology-scientist-has-28-papers-with-manipulated-duplicated-images/article27697386.ece

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