Anil Saran

Biography

Anil Saran earned his BSc and MSc from Patna University, after which he joined Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata. He worked under the guidance of Professor BN Srivastava on the 'transport properties of gases' and earned DPhil (1967) from Calcutta University. He then went to Ottawa, Canada on NRC Postdoctoral Fellowship. He returned to India in 1969 and joined Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Bombay as CSIR Pool Officer and along with Professor G Govil started work on 'conformation of bio-molecules by quantum mechanical methods'. On Invitation from Professor Bernard Pullman (1971), he joined the Institute de Biologie Physico Chimique, Paris, France as a CNRS Postdoctoral Fellow. On returning to India (1975), he joined TIFR, Bombay as a Fellow and worked there till 2000, when he retired as Professor 'H'. He worked as CSIR Emeritus Scientist (2000-05), and continued as INSA Senior Scientist at the Bombay College of Pharmacy. He was Visiting Scientist at the German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg (1994, 1996); and University of Frankfurt, Germany (2000) under INSA-DFG Exchange Program.

Research Interest

Molecular Biophysics & Biomolecular NMR