IBMM is hosting Professor SANTANU BHATTACHARYA from May 1st to 31st.
As part of the EXPLORE#5 program, IBMM is hosting Professor SANTANU BHATTACHARYA from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore from May 1st to 31st.
Santanu Bhattacharya is an Indian chemical biologist and former professor at the Indian Institute of Science. He is currently Director of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Tirupati (IISER-Tirupati). He is known for his studies on unnatural amino acids, oligopeptides, engineered and natural lipids and biologically active natural products. He is an elected member of the Indian National Academy of Sciences, the World Academy of Sciences and the Indian Academy of Sciences. In 2003, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the Indian government’s supreme agency for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award for Science and Technology, one of India’s highest scientific honors, for his contributions to the chemical sciences. He has also received the National Bioscience Award for Career Development from the Department of Biotechnology (2002) and the TWAS Prize (2010). He is the author of over 350 publications (h-index 72)
He will give a lecture on Thursday May 23rd at 2 pm in Amphi Balard.
