UIPS Professor bags Mid-Career faculty award of UGC
Prof Ranju Bansal of University Institute of pharmaceutical Sciences, Panjab University has been bestowed with Mid-career award by UGC, India with a grant of Rs. 10.00 lakhs under this scheme
Mid-Career Award aims to augment the research efforts of active mid-career faculty members and support them with the research incentive. . She will be working on ‘Repurposing steroidal drugs as possible agents against neurodegenerative disorders using virtual screening and experimental techniques’ in this project.
Dr Ranju Bansal is an active researcher and is actively engaged in drug discovery research for cancer therapy and neurodegenerative disorders. She has published her research work in high profile journals and has supervised more than fifteen doctoral students. Her work on anticancer and neuroprotective heterosteroids has been widely appreciated.
