Dipankar Chatterji

Biography

Dipankar Chatterji earned his BSc and MSc degrees in Chemistry from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He joined Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore under the interdisciplinary programme of Molecular Biology for his PhD (1973) under the joint supervision of Professor US Nandi and Professor SK Podder. He worked for a year in the laboratory of Professor DP Burma at BHU and then joined the School of Life Sciences at Hyderabad University as a lecturer in 1978. He left for USA to carry out post-doctoral work at Albert Einstein College, New York and subsequently at the University of New York at Stony Brook under Professor CW Wu. Here he first started working on E coli RNA polymerase and showed the role of Zn (II) in enzymatic function. In January 1999, he moved to join as a Professor in Molecular Biophysics Unit of Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore and held a Chair of Molecular Biology And Genetics Unit till 2005. He is an Adjunct Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Kolkata and a Distinguished Research Professor, Institute of Life Sciences, Hyderabad.

Research Interest

Biophysical Chemistry & Molecular Biology, Nanobiology,