Gagandeep Kang quits the Director post of Translational Health Science and Technology Institute

Gagandeep Kang is the first woman from India to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, has resigned from her executive director’s position at the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), Faridabad.

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Gagandeep Kang is the first Indian woman to be elected Fellow, Royal Society, London, and was instrumental in the development of Rotavac, the first vaccine to be made from scratch in India.

Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI) in Faridabad is an autonomous body under the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology.

The Faridabad institute functions under the Department of Biotechnology of the Union Ministry of Science and Technology. It is an autonomous body where Kang had another year left as director.

A scholar of extraordinary mettle, Kang is known for her inter-disciplinary research in the transmission, development and prevention of enteric infections and their sequelae in children in India.

Translational Health Science and Technology Institute

It is a society registered under the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860.

It is also an autonomous institute of the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India.

It was set up in 2009 at Gurgaon and is now located in NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad along with the Regional Center for Biotechnology, Advanced Technology Platforms Center, Small Animal Facility, and Bio-incubator.

THSTI has six intramural centers namely Vaccine & Infectious Disease Research Centre (VIDRC), Pediatric Biology Centre (PBC), Centre for Bio-design & Diagnostics (CBD), Centre for Human Microbial Ecology (CHME), Policy Centre for Biomedical Research (PCBR), and Drug Discovery Research Centre (DDRC).