Sunetra Gupta

Sunetra Gupta
Born	1965 (age 50–51)
Institutions	Princeton University University of London University of Oxford
Thesis	Heterogeneity and the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases (1992)
Notable awards	Rosalind Franklin Award Sahitya Akademi Award
Website www.sunetragupta.com www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/people/view/gupta_s.htm
Sunetra Gupta's voice from the BBC programme The Life Scientific, 25 September 2012.[1]

Sunetra Gupta (born 15 March 1965)^[2] is a novelist, and Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at the University of Oxford with an interest in infectious disease agents that are responsible for malaria, HIV, influenza and bacterial meningitis.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Biography

Gupta was born in Calcutta, India and trained in biology, holding a bachelor's degree from Princeton University and a Ph.D.^[9] from the University of London. She is married to professor Adrian V. S. Hill.^[10]

Achievements in science

Gupta is currently Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford. She sits on the European Advisory Board of Princeton University Press.^[11]

She has been awarded the Scientific Medal by the Zoological Society of London and the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award for her scientific research. Her novels have been awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Southern Arts Literature Prize, shortlisted for the Crossword Award, and longlisted for the Orange Prize.

Gupta's portrait was on display during the prestigious Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition along with leading female scientist such as Madame Curie in July 2013.^[12]

Achievements as a writer

Gupta wrote her first works of fiction in Bengali. She was the translator of the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore. She has published several novels in English. In October 2012 her fifth novel, So Good in Black was longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.^[13]

Novels

• Memories of Rain. Penguin Books India, New Delhi 1992, ISBN 978-0-14-016907-2.
• The Glassblower's Breath (1993)
• Moonlight into Marzipan (1995)
• A Sin of Colour (1999)
• So Good in Black (2009)

References

1. "Sunetra Gupta". The Life Scientific. 25 September 2012. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
2. "Weekend Birthdays", The Guardian, p. 51, 15 March 2014
3. Recker, M.; Pybus, O. G.; Nee, S.; Gupta, S. (2007). "The generation of influenza outbreaks by a network of host immune responses against a limited set of antigenic types". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104 (18): 7711–7716. doi:10.1073/pnas.0702154104. PMC 1855915. PMID 17460037.
4. Recker, M.; Nee, S.; Bull, P. C.; Kinyanjui, S.; Marsh, K.; Newbold, C.; Gupta, S. (2004). "Transient cross-reactive immune responses can orchestrate antigenic variation in malaria". Nature. 429 (6991): 555–558. doi:10.1038/nature02486. PMID 15175751.
5. Gupta, S.; Snow, R. W.; Donnelly, C. A.; Marsh, K.; Newbold, C. (1999). "Immunity to non-cerebral severe malaria is acquired after one or two infections". Nature Medicine. 5 (3): 340–343. doi:10.1038/6560. PMID 10086393.
6. Ferguson, N.; Anderson, R.; Gupta, S. (1999). "The effect of antibody-dependent enhancement on the transmission dynamics and persistence of multiple-strain pathogens". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 96 (2): 790. doi:10.1073/pnas.96.2.790.
7. Buckee, C. O.; Jolley, K. A.; Recker, M.; Penman, B.; Kriz, P.; Gupta, S.; Maiden, M. C. J. (2008). "Role of selection in the emergence of lineages and the evolution of virulence in Neisseria meningitidis". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105 (39): 15082. doi:10.1073/pnas.0712019105.
8. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mw2d6 Sunetra Gupta on the Life Scientific
9. Gupta, Sunetra (1992). Heterogeneity and the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases (PhD thesis). Imperial College London.
10. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1344293/Oxford-scientist-wins-the-battle-for-her-reputation.html
11. Princeton University Press, European Advisory Board
12. "Indian woman scientist's portrait to be exhibited in Britain". The Times of India. Retrieved September 1, 2013.
13. "biography". Sunetra Gupta. Retrieved September 1, 2013.