Sujata Sharma
Sujata Sharma is an Indian structural biologist, biophysicist, writer and a professor at the Department of Biophysics of the
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi. She is known for her studies in the fields of protein structure, drug design and drug resistance of bacteria. Her studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and
ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 167 of them.
She is also the author of the books, "Warriors in White", an autobiographical account of some
COVID-19 Warriors at
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi and other leading hospitals of India, including Prof
Randeep Guleria, using a combination of
modern medicine,
astronomy and
Vedic astrology, "The Secret of the Red Crystals", an autobiographical account of her days in AIIMS Delhi. and "A Dragonfly's purpose", which is an autobiographical account of her recovery from an autoimmune disease,
Guillain Barre Syndrome.
The
Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded her the
National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for her contributions to biosciences, in 2011. She is also a recipient of the Woman Scientist Award of the Biotech Research Society of India and the National Young Woman Bioscientist Award of the Department of Biotechnology which she received in 2006 and 2007 respectively. In 2020, she was awarded the
Kalpana Chawla Excellence award, for her contributions in science. This award is instituted in the memory of the first Indian woman astronaut, Kalpana Chawla to go on space missions.
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