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Vidita A. Vaidya, PhD (she/her/hers)

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India

Vidita Vaidya is a Senior Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Biological Sciences at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India. She received her doctoral degree in Neuroscience at Yale University, and postdoctoral training at the Karolinska Institute and Oxford University. She is a fellow of all three Indian Science academies. She received the National Bioscientist Award in 2012, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Medical Sciences in 2015, and the Infosys Prize for Life-Sciences in 2022. She was awarded the Nature Award for Excellence in Mentorship in India in 2019. Her research group is interested in understanding the neurocircuitry of emotion, its modulation by life experience and the alterations in emotional neurocircuitry that underlie complex psychiatric disorders like depression.

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