sentences:  Her father, Sukhdeb Bhattacharya, was an Indian Airlines pilot.Sharmila Bhattacharya did her schooling from La Martiniere for Girls and Loreto House.After getting a bachelor's degree in Human Physiology in Presidency College, Kolkata and Biological Chemistry from Wellesley College, she started her career out as an undergraduate research assistant in the biochemistry lab at Princeton University.