Alok Bhattacharya

Biography

Alok Bhattacharya earned the BSc degree in Chemistry from Hansraj College, Delhi University and subsequently completed the MSc program in Chemistry from IIT, Kanpur in 1972. He obtained his PhD in Biology under the supervision of Professor Asis Datta in the School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, where he worked on N-acetyl glucosamine utilization in yeast Candida albicans. From 1977 to 1981 he worked in the USA, at the National Cancer Institute, on hormone receptors in breast tissues and at the Harvard Medical School, Boston, on MHC antigens. For a short period, he was at the Department of Biochemistry, AIIMS, New Delhi, then with Tata Consultancy Services, Pune in their R&D laboratory for three years, before joining the faculty of JNU where he is currently Professor in the Schools of Life Sciences and Information Technology.

Research Interest

Parasitology, Genomics, Bioinformatics