Dr. Chabita Saha

Adjunct Faculty (C)

Department of Environmental Science

About Dr. Chabita Saha

Dr Saha, did her B. Sc (Hons) in Chemistry from Asansol Girls College, where she was awarded for her academic proficiency. She received her foundation in research at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata as a Ph. D student with DAE Institute fellowship and later as CISR Research Associate in the Chemical Sciences Department, during this period she won awards for best paper in National and International Conferences. She is recipient of Post-Doctoral Fellowship of the Japanese Society of Promotion of Science and got trained in Protein Chemistry and Biophysics in Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Japan. She also worked in similar field in Department of Physical Chemistry, Hebrew University, Israel receiving University Post-Doctoral Fellowship. She is recipient of DST Women Scientist Fellowship thrice. She has guided two students jointly for award of Ph. D degree and four are currently pursuing. Her current research interests are in targeted drug delivery through nanotechnology and glyconanotechnology with focus on theranostics in cancer treatment. Drug- DNA and Drug-protein interactions using biophysical techniques are also field of interest. In this field she has published more than forty papers in international journals of repute.