| Intro | Indian scientist |
| Is | Scientist |
| From | India |
| Type | Science |
| Gender | female |
Vidita Vaidya is an Indian neuroscientist and Professor at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. She is a Research Fellow of the Wellcome Trust and a former associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences. Her primary areas of research are neuroscience and molecular psychiatry. Her work has garnered the 2015 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for Medical Sciences. She was also a recipient of the National Bioscience Award for Career Development in 2012.
Education
Vidita received her undergraduate degree from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai in Life Sciences and Biochemistry. She obtained her doctoral degree in Neuroscience at Yale University. Her postdoctoral work was done at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and at the University of Oxford in UK.
Career
She joined the Department of Biological Sciences, TIFR in March, 2000. She has been a Wellcome Trust Overseas Senior Research Fellow and an Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences from 2000-2005. Vidita studies the control mechanism that regulate emotion and how these mechanisms are influenced by experiences. She also investigates how changes in brain circuits form the basis of psychiatric disorders like depression and how early life experiences contribute to persistent alterations in behaviour. She was awarded the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 2015 in the medical sciences category.
Her site at TIFR hosts a complete list of her publications. Vidita has also been featured in Lilavathi’s Daughters, a compilation of biographical essays on Indian women scientists, and on “The Life in Science” blog.