Dr. Kalpana Dash is an accomplished scholar and has more than 18 years of significant contribution in various fields of research and teaching in Biotechnology. She has done her Ph.D from Vallabh Bhai Patel Chest Institute, Delhi under the guidance of Dr. Kunal Saha, Ex-HOD, Deptt of Allergy and Immunology VPCI and Dr. S.V. Gangal, Ex-Director CBT (Centre for Biochemical Technology) CSIR.

Her area of work is Molecular Immunology and she has carried out an extensive research work on fish lectins and their relations to phylogeny of immune responses. She has made significant contributions in the isolation, purification and characterization of fish lectins & correlated its role in defense. Receptor binding mechanism of this lectin on RBCs is a first-of-its kind report which was published in leading international journals. To her credit, she studied the histopathological and immunological changes occurring at lymphoid organs in response to Gamma Ray irradiation at 'INMAS' Delhi involving Electron Microscopical studies at Institute of pathology, Delhi.

She has also worked on Sexual transmitted diseases on leprosy sera and studied the prevalence of AIDS in various promiscuous groups under ICMR funded scheme.

Her post doctoral work was as a pool scientist of CSIR in CIFA, Bhubaneswar in the area of pesticide effect on immune responses on aquatic organism.

To her credit, she has more than 15 publications on various national and international journals.