Adviser on International Collaboration for Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology

Dr. Shailja Vaidya Gupta has done her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.She handles International Collaborations in the Department of Biotechnology and has been instrumental in establishing active bilateral collaborations with Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, UK and US; and with EU.Dr. Gupta is also responsible for DBT’s collaborations with Non-Governmental organisations such as Wellcome Trust, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO), European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), PrakashLab, Stanford University and Cancer Research UK.Dr. Gupta has been instrumental in developing the clean Barapullah project, Bringing Foldscope to India and the “FarmerZone” project amongst other major international initiatives.