Professor Anuradha Lohia is the CEO of The Wellcome Trust/ DBT India  Alliance, an independent funding agency set up as a partnership  between The Wellcome Trust, UK and the Department of Biotechnology,  Government of India. With a corpus of $120 million USD for the first  five years, the India Alliance has been created to support  outstanding biomedical researchers to pursue a research career in  India. Through generous and flexible fellowships the India Alliance  hopes to seed the next generation of science leaders in India.  Professor Lohia's research interests are in the area of cell cycle  regulation of Entamoeba histolytica and her laboratory is based at  Bose Institute, Kolkata. She is a recipient of several prestigious  awards, notably the Rockefeller Foundation Biotechnology Career  Fellowship, the National Woman Bioscientist Award and is an elected  Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences.