Chhitar Mal Gupta

Biography

Chhitar Mal Gupta earned his BSc and MSc degrees from Rajasthan University, Jaipur (Rajasthan), after which he joined the Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow to work in the area of medicinal chemistry under the supervision of Dr Nitya Nand to obtain his PhD degree (1969) from Agra University, Agra. After serving as a post-doctoral Fellow for a brief period, he was taken up on the scientific staff of CDRI. He undertook post-doctoral training, first at the Institute of Molecular Biology, Syntex Research, Palo Alto, CA (1973-75) and then at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA (1975-78). He was one of the very early post-doctoral students of Professor H Govind Khorana who initiated his work on structure and function of membrane proteins. On returning to India in 1978, he again joined CDRI. He was appointed as the Director of Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTech), Chandigarh (1992) and then again moved to CDRI as its Director (1997) from where he superannuated (2007). Presently, he is working as Distinguished Biotechnology Fellow at CDRI.

Research Interest

Membrane Biology & Bio-Organic Chemistry