Munia Ganguli

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Munia Ganguli is an Indian biochemist and biotechnologist who works at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB). She is best known for developing non-invasive drug delivery methods. Her team created a skin drug-delivery system using a nano-sized peptide complex carrying plasmid DNA, which can penetrate the skin effectively without causing harm. She holds two patents for these processes.

At IGIB, she started and leads her own laboratory, guiding several research scholars and scientists. She has published many articles, with 76 listed on ResearchGate. She has represented IGIB in a joint CSIR-IGIB initiative that links chemistry with biology, and she has served on the editorial advisory committee of Nano Science and its Applications, a national seminar sponsored by the UGC.

Ganguli led the IGIB project on Nanomaterials and Nanodevices for health and disease. She has delivered invited talks at conferences such as the International Conference on Advances in Biological Systems and Materials Science in NanoWorld (ABSMSNW-2017) and edited a special issue of Science and Culture on Emerging Trends in Genomics: Applications in Health and Disease (January 2011).

In 2012, the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, awarded her the National Bioscience Award for Career Development for her contributions to biosciences.