Brief Bio-data of

Dr. Neeta Singh

Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry,
AIIMS, New Delhi – 110 029, INDIA.

Dr. Neeta Singh received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 1976 from Delhi University, India. In 1979 she served a post doctoral fellowship at Neurochemical Institute, Denmark and in 1983 at Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, Switzerland. In 1992 she was a visiting associate at National Cancer Institute, USA. She was awarded Danish Govt. Fellowship (DANIDA), Swiss Govt. Fellowship, ICRETT award of International Union Against Cancer (UICC) in 1989 and 1997, UNDP award, Universitat/Witten award, Visiting associateship of NIH Fogarty, USA, membership of National Academy of Medical Sciences, India, UICC, American Association for Cancer Research, New York Academy of Sciences. She has attracted funds from various funding agencies in India – ICMR, CSIR, DST, DBT, Ministry of Health for 14 Research Projects. During her career spanning 29 years she has had varied organizational, teaching and research experience. She has been supervisior/co-supervisior for 17 Ph.D., 10 M.D. and 5 M.Sc. students. She has nearly 100 research publications to her credit. She has distinguish herself in the field of cancer research and has made a significant contribution in understanding chemical carcinogenesis, ROS & signal transduction mechanisms, role of telomeres, telomerase, and HPV in cancer and the impact of apoptosis in health and disease (cancer), and experimental cancer therapeutics and prevention.