Manju Bansal
Education
Education
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Bansal did her schooling from [Hyderabad](/wiki/Hyderabad "Hyderabad") and [Dehradun](/wiki/Dehradun "Dehradun"). She developed a great interest in Science and later went ahead to earn her BSc and MSc from [Osmania University](/wiki/Osmania_University "Osmania University"), [Hyderabad](/wiki/Hyderabad "Hyderabad"). 
In 1972 she joined the [Molecular Biophysics](/wiki/Molecular_Biophysics "Molecular Biophysics") Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore for her doctoral degree. She got an opportunity to work under the guidance of biophysicist [G. N. Ramachandran](/wiki/G._N._Ramachandran "G. N. Ramachandran"), on the theoretical modeling of the triple helical structure of the fibrous protein collagen. She received her PhD in 1977\. 
Thereafter, she continued working at IISc as a post\-doctoral fellow on left handed and other unusual structures of DNA till 1981\. She then went to Germany as an [Alexander von Humboldt Fellow](/wiki/Alexander_von_Humboldt_Fellow "Alexander von Humboldt Fellow") at the [European Molecular Biology Laboratory](/wiki/European_Molecular_Biology_Laboratory "European Molecular Biology Laboratory"), [Heidelberg](/wiki/Heidelberg "Heidelberg"), for a year and worked on the structure of filamentous phages.


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