Dr Galande ' s early researches during his doctoral studies were on MAR-binding proteins and carcinogenesis but later he shifted his focus to celltype specific patterns of gene expression and how chromatin levels influence them which was the theme of his project at National Centre for Cell Sciences ( NCCS ), Pune . His team demonstrated the effect of cellular signaling pathways impacting chromatin levels . After his move to the Indian Institute of Science Education & Research ( IISER ) -Pune , he started working on epigenetic regulation on various substrata viz . yeast , Caenorhabditis elegans ( roundworm ), Drosophila ( fruit flies ), Zebrafish and humans , using them as biological model systems .
Dr Galande earned his Ph . D . in Biochemistry from the Indian Institute of Science in 1996 . As a postdoctoral fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the USA from 1996-2001 , he studied the role of MARbinding proteins in tumorigenesis . On his return to India , he joined NCCS as a senior scientist and later headed the Sanjeev Galande Laboratory at the institute till 2010 . He was part of a group that elucidated how cellular signaling pathways eventually exert their effect at the level of chromatin to orchestrate cell-type-specific patterns of gene expression .
Later he served as the Chair of Biology and the Dean of Research and Development at the IISER , Pune . He founded the Centre of Excellence in Epigenetics at IISER where he assembled a team of scientists to study the evolution of epigenetic mechanisms using multiple model systems . There he was known
Current Position : Professor , Shiv Nadar University
Impact : He is credited for having established a multidisciplinary program engaged at the interface of biochemistry , molecular biology , bioinformatics , cell biology , proteomics , and genomics .
Notable Awards : G . D . Birla Award 2014 ; Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize 2010 in Biological Sciences ; N-BIOS Prize 2006 , National Bioscience Award by DBT .
Alma Mater : Savitribai Phule Pune University ; Indian Institute of Science ; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for his studies on higher-order chromatin architecture and how it influences spatiotemporal changes in gene expression .
In June 2021 , Dr Galande joined Shiv Nadar University , Delhi-NCR , as Dean of the School of Natural Sciences and HoD , Life Sciences .
Due to his unique research work and extraordinary efforts , Dr Galande was the recipient of the International Senior Research Fellowship , Wellcome Trust , UK , 2005-10 . He was also a recipient of DBT National Bioscience Award 2006 , DST Swarnajayanti Fellowship 2007 , the coveted CSIR Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize 2010 , GD Birla Award for Scientific Excellence 2015 , and the SERB JC Bose Fellowship 2019 . He has been a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences since 2010 , of the Indian National Science Academy since 2012 , and of the National Academy of Sciences since 2017 .
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