A biologist by career, Chandrima Shaha occurs to be the primary ever feminine president of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA). She was additionally the previous director of the National Institute of Immunology. With cell biology (cell dying specifically) as her specialisation, she has considerably researched and penned a number of papers about Kala-azar, or Black Fever, a tropical illness that’s attributable to the Leishmania parasite.