Dr. Sandhya Bansal

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  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  Department of Chemistry

  Urbana, IL, United States

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Research experience

• Apr 2012–
  Jun 2015

  PostDoc Position

  Regional Centre for Biotechnology
  India · Gurgaon
• Aug 2005–
  Mar 2012

  Ph.D Student

  University of Delhi · Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Centre For Biomedical Research
  India · Delhi

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  Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Past: acbr and University of Delhi
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  Studied at Delhi University

  Past: Guru Nanak Khalsa College, Yamunanagar and Dr. B R Ambedkar Center for Biomedical Research
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  Lives in New Delhi, India

  From New Delhi, India

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  Dr. Sandhya Bansal

  Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
  Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory, Department of Chemistry
  Sandhya earned a Masters in Biomedical Sciences from University of Delhi and Bachelors in Biochemistry from Kurukshetra University, India. She completed her PhD from Dr. B.R Ambedkar center for Biomedical Research, University of Delhi and her research project was "Studying selective mechanism of inhibition of E. coli and Mammalian DNA Topoisomerases by benzimidazoles in developing new antibacterials". She worked as Postdoctoral Research Associate at Regional Centre for Biotechnology, Gurgaon, India, where her research focused on identification of bile acid amphiphiles as anticancer and antibacterial agents. Currently she works as Postdoctoral Research Associate at Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. Her interests of study are resistance mechanisms in infectious diseases and advancement of alternative therapies to overcome resistance.

Sandhya Bansal

Post Doctoral Fellow

I come from Delhi/NCR. I like trying new things, my idea of life is everything happens in life in first time so try to learn as much as possible each day. My passion is to explore new destinations around the globe, reading books and paint my imagination.

Education

Ph.D (Biomedical Sciences): University of Delhi, 2012.

M.Sc. (Biomedical Sciences): University of Delhi, 2005.

B.Sc. (BioChemistry): Kurukshetra University, 2003.

Research interests

My research interest is to look into the molecular mechanisms underlying different disease in response to molecules administered externally. How improved molecules can be   used in clinics to cure some common diseases and bacterial infections. I am much more interested in studying the patients with resistant drug profiles and how the existing combinations of drugs can be can be improved to be clinically effective in patients.

Email: sandhyabansal@gmail.com

Publications:

1. Sreekanth Vedaguporum*, Sandhya Bansal*,Rajender K Motiani, Somanath Kundu, ShravanKumar Muppu, Tapodhara Datta Majumdar, K.Panjamurthy, Sagar  Sengupta and Avinash Bajaj Design, Synthesis and Mechanistic Investigations of Bile Acid-Tamoxifen Conjugates for Breast Cancer Therapy. Bioconjugate Chem. (August,2013) (Just Accepted). (*Equal contribution)
2. Manish Singh, Ashima Singh, Somanath Kundu,Sandhya Bansal, and Avinash Bajaj. Interactions of Bile Acid based Facial Amphiphiles with Membranes Influences their Anticancer Activities for Colon Cancer. Biophys. Biochim. ActaBiomembranes, April 2013.
3. Sandhya Bansal, Devapriya Sinha, Manish Singh,Bokun Cheng, Yuk Ching Tse-Dinh and VibhaTandon. 3, 4 dimethoxyphenyl bisbenzimidazole, a novel DNA Topoisomerase Inhibitor that Preferentially Targets Type IA Topoisomerase.Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, (2012) 67(12): 2882-2891.
4. Sandhya Bansal and Vibha Tandon. Contribution of mutations in DNA gyrase and topoisomerase IV genes to ciprofloxacin resistance in Escherichia coli clinical isolates. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents 37 (2011) 253-255.
5. Sandhya Bansal, Urmila Tawar, Manish Singh,Abbas Nikravesh, Liam Good, Vibha Tandon. Old class but new dimethoxy analogue ofbenzimidazole: a bacterial topoisomerase I   Inhibitor. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents 35 (2010) 186-190.
6. Urmila Tawar, Sandhya Bansal, Shiteshu Shrimal,Manish Singh, Vibha Tandon. Nuclear condensation and Free radical Scavenging: A Dual Mechanism of Bisbenzimidazoles to Modulate Radiation Damage to DNA. Mol. Cell. Biochem.(2007) 305: 221-233.
7. Sandhya Bansal, Jaspal Singh, Rakesh KumarTiwari, Kasi Shankar, Vibha Tandon and RameshChandra.Synthesis and in vitro cytotoxicity ofhaloderivatives of noscapine; Akhilesh KumarVerma, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 2006,Oct 1; 14(19): 6733-6.
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