Dr Sandip K Mishra, a senior scientist and cancer biology specialist at the Institute of life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, has been appointed as research advisor with reference to cancer biology at the Academy of Sciences and International Cooperation Centre, Singapore.
Dr Mishra is the first person from India to be appointed in the prestigious academy. He has been nominated for this advisory position because of his highly-cited and high-indexed research publications in reputed journals.
The academy would bear all the expenses for his travel to the academy in Singapore. Dr Mishra would supervise different types of cancer related programs and collaborative projects which would be taken up by the academy.
In recent past under Dr Mishra’s guidance, several high impact research papers in the field of breast cancer have been published in internationally reputed journals. Many of his papers have been cited hundreds of times, which enabled him to stay as a leader in breast cancer research.
Dr Mishra has been carrying out the assignments for different reputed international journals as associate editor, editor and advisor.
For his accomplished research, he was conferred upon very prestigious ‘AMGEN award’ in the USA. Before joining the Institute of life Sciences, Dr Mishra was working in MD, Anderson Cancer Centre, Texas, USA as a faculty. In a very short span of time, nine students have completed their PhDs and they are serving at high positions in India and abroad.