Sushmita Mukherjee, Ph.D. - Honors & Awards | Weill Cornell Medical College

Honors and Awards

Jan 2010: Two platform presentations, Photonics West conference (BIOS chapter), San Francisco
Sept 2009: Invited lecture at the Biophysics Colloquium, Cornell University, Ithaca
Sept 2009: Invited lecture at the Department of Chemistry, Hunter College, NY
Jan 2009: Platform presentation, Photonics West conference (BIOS chapter), San Francisco
Feb 2008 – Jan 2010: K12 Career Development Award, Clinical and Translational Science Center, Weil Cornell Medical College, NY
May 1998: Invited Lecture at the EMBO Workshop on Lipids, Galilee, Israel
1997 – 1998: Norman and Rosita Winston Foundation Fellowship in Biomedical Research
1995: Young Scientist Award of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA)
1990 – 1995: Junior and Senior Research Fellowships, University Grants Commission, Govt. of India
1990: Certificate of Merit, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research/University Grants Commission, Government of India (for securing among the first 10 ranks in all-India entrance exam)
1988 – 1990: Masters Fellowship, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India

Education

Bs.C., University of Delhi (India), 1985
M.Sc., Madurai University Medical College (India), 1990
Ph.D., Jawaharlal Nehru University (India), 1995
M.S., Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, 2010

Appointments

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
Weill Cornell Medical College
Director, Multiphoton Imaging Facility
Weill Cornell Medical College

Departments

Biochemistry

Teaching Activities

1. Lecture entitled "Advances in Optical Imaging for Clinical Applications" delivered to furth year medical students for Advanced Biomedical Sciences course.
2. Three-lecture series on Optical Imaging ("Visible light and its interaction with matter," "Optical imaging: microscopy and endoscopy" and "Multimodal approaches to imaging") delivered to students in the K30 program as part of the Principles of Biomedical Imaging elective course.
3. Histology lab instructor in the Human Structure and Function section of the course for the first year medical students.

3. Instructor, Research Proposals, Scientific Journalism, and Public Speaking: Inspiration, Writing, and Evaluation core course for K30 program.
4. Facilitator, small group discussion in the Biochemistry section of Molecules, Genes and Cells course for first year medical students.

Contact

Lab

Phone: 212-746-6495 (office); 212-746-6199, 212-746-6490 (lab)
Fax: 212-746-8875
e-mail: smukherj@med.cornell.edu
Room: E 019A (office); E 00.02 (lab)
Mailbox: 63