A research scientist in India who earned her doctoral degree in neuroscience at Yale has won a prestigious science award.
Vidita Vaidya, PhD, who trained in the lab of Ronald Duman, PhD, Elizabeth Mears and House Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Neurobiology at Yale, won a Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award in the medical science category.
The Ministry of Science and Technology in India presented 11 awards in seven fields. Vaidya is a principal investigator at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Mumbai.
After leaving Yale, Vaidya did postdoctoral work at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
She joined the Department of Biological Sciences at TIFR in March 2000. She has been a Wellcome Trust Overseas Senior Research Fellow and an Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences. She received the National Biosciences Award in 2012.