Santanu Bhattacharya
Santanu Bhattacharya is an Indian chemist and an honorary professor at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc Bangalore) where he served as a professor earlier. He is also an honorary fellow and former director of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS Kolkata). At, present he is the
Director of the
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Tirupati (IISER-Tirupati). He is popular for his interdisciplinary work at the intersection of chemistry, biology, and materials science and introduced this style of investigation in India. His research on synthetic and natural lipids, gene delivery vehicles, natural and unnatural amino acids, oligopeptides, hydro- and organogels, bio-analytical sensors, molecular therapies design via G-quadruplex DNA binding, and biologically active natural product mimics is well known. He has been elected a fellow of the
Indian National Science Academy New Delhi,
The World Academy of Sciences Trieste, and the
Indian Academy of Sciences Bangalore. In 2003,
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the Government of India's apex scientific research organization, awarded him the
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest Indian award in science, for his contributions to chemical sciences. He has also received the Department of Biotechnology's
National Bioscience Award for Career Development of the
Department of Biotechnology (2002) and the UNESCO TWAS Prize (2010).
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