Bhubaneswar, Aug 25: Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra, a senior scientist of the Institute of Life Sciences (ILS), Bhubaneswar succumbed to food poisoning, said his family sources.
Dr Mishra who was almost healthy, was found dead at his residence at Satyanagar in the Bhubaneswar City all of a sudden on Sunday.
On being informed as a suicidal case, police rushed to Mishra’s house, recovered his body and sent it to the Capital Hospital in Bhubaneswar for post-mortem.
Dr Mishra is credited with developing the drug ‘Artemisinin’ from Estrogen Related Receptor beta (ERRβ) molecule and leaves and flowers of a sweet wormwood plant (botanical name – Artemisia annua) which reportedly treated as a panacea for breast cancer.
Dr Mishra had begun his journey in the field of medical science & research,joining as a faculty at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.
