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{{short description|Indian biophysicist}}
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{{Infobox scientist
|name = Manju Bansal
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|birth_date = 1 December 1950
|birth_place = [[Dehradun]]
|residence = India
|nationality = Indian
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|field =
|work_institution = Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology; [[IISc]], [[Bangalore]]
|alma_mater = [[Osmania University]], [[Hyderabad]]
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|known_for = [[Molecular Biophysics]], Structural and [[Computational Biology]]
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'''Manju Bansal''' (born. 1 December 1950) specializes in the field of [[Molecular biophysics]] and is currently a professor of theoretical Biophysics group in [[Molecular biophysics|Molecular Biophysics]] unit of in the [[Indian Institute of Science]], [[Bangalore]]. She is the founder director of the Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology at Bangalore.<ref name = "Biography">{{cite web|title=Biography - Manju Bansal|url=http://nucleix.mbu.iisc.ernet.in/biography.htm|accessdate=15 March 2014}}</ref><ref name="INSA">{{cite web|title=INSA - Manju Bansal|url=http://insaindia.org/detail.php?id=P09-1474|accessdate=15 March 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140315100621/http://insaindia.org/detail.php?id=P09-1474|archivedate=15 March 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

==Education==
Bansal did her schooling from [[Hyderabad]] and [[Dehradun]]. She developed a great interest in Science and later went ahead to earn her BSc and MSc from [[Osmania University]], [[Hyderabad]].
In 1972 she joined the [[Molecular Biophysics]] Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore for her doctoral degree. She got an opportunity to work under the guidance of biophysicist [[G. N. Ramachandran]], on the theoretical modeling of the triple helical structure of the fibrous protein collagen. She received her PhD in 1977.
Thereafter, she continued working at IISc as a post-doctoral fellow on left handed and other unusual structures of DNA till 1981. She then went to Germany as an [[Alexander von Humboldt Fellow]] at the [[European Molecular Biology Laboratory]], [[Heidelberg]], for a year and worked on the structure of filamentous phages.<ref name = "INSA"/>

==Fellowships==
Bansal has been awarded an EMBL Visiting Fellowship and AvH Fellowship, Germany and Senior Fulbright Fellowship, USA. She has been a Visiting Professor at Rutgers University, USA, and Visiting Consultant at NIH, Bethesda, USA.<ref name = "INSA"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/womeninscience/LD_essays/45-47.pdf |title=Women in Science|website=ias.ac.in}}</ref>

==Awards & Honours==
Bansal was awarded the INSA Medal for Young Scientists in 1979.
she is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore and National Academy of Sciences (India), Allahabad, since 1998.<ref name = "INSA"/>

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