Buttianda Thelma Kuttappa 

Buttianda Thelma Kuttapa  is a Professor in Genetics has done an extensive work on DNA of kodavas.

About

Buttianda Thelma Kuttappa  is a Professor in the Department of Genetics at the Delhi University , New Delhi, India. Thelma established the DNA-based diagnosis facilities for fragile X syndrome, the most common form of inherited mental retardation

Family

Father

Buttianda Thelma Kuttappa

Mother

 

Education

• BSc  in Zoology from Bangalore University in 1973
• MSc in Zoology from Bangalore University in1975
• PhD (Zoology) (1982)
• Postdoctoral Fellow in the Human Genetics Laboratory at Children’s Hospital, Switzerland

Career

University of Delhi South Campus

• Lecturer, Department of Genetics  (1987-93)
• Senior Lecturer (1993-98)
• Reader (1998-2003)
• Professor in Zoology (2003-06)
• Professor in the Department of Genetics ( 2006 – 

Awards and Honours

• Professor Thelma received the Fogarty International Research Career Award.
• She was also elected Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (India), Allahabad (2003),
• She was also elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (2006),
• She was also elected Fellow of Indian National Science Academy, India, Delhi, 2009
• Vice President of the Indian Society of Cell Biology.
• Member of International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing, Washington DC, USA, 2019
• The Sanghvi Oration Award, Indian Society of Human Genetics, 2015
• The Sunder Lal Hora Medal, Indian National Science Academy, 2014
• Stree Shakti Science Samman, 2012
• J.C. Bose Fellow, Department of Science & Technology, India, 2011
• Member, Scientific Advisory Committee to Prime Minister, Govt. of India, 2009
• Fogarty International Research Career Award, 1997
• Vice President of the Indian Society of Cell Biology