Sankar Adhya
Microbiologist
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Early life and education
Adhya was born in Kolkata, India and studied chemistry at the University of Calcutta as an undergraduate. He later obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Calcutta in biochemistry and a second Ph.D. in genetics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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Work
Following postdoctoral training at Stanford University, the Bose Institute, and the University of Rochester, he joined the NCI's newly formed Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in 1971. He has remained at the NIH since 1971 and is presently Head of the LMB's Developmental Genetics section.
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