Samir Bhattacharya
Department of Zoology
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Samir Bhattacharya obtained his BSc (Hons) and MSc degrees from Calcutta University and joined as a research scholar at the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB) known as Indian Institute of Experimental Medicine at that time at Kolkata. He earned his PhD (1970) under the supervision of Dr AG Dutta, FNA. He went to USA in 1975 as a Senior Fulbright Fellow and worked with Professor Aubrey Gorbman at the University of Washington, Seattle. He continued his work with Professor Aubrey Gorbman again in 1983 when he was selected, a second time, as a Senior Fulbright Fellow and significantly contributed to understand the mechanism of thyroid hormone action. Presently, he is at Visva-Bharati as an INSA Senior Scientist.
Research Interest
Comparative Endocrinology and Molecular Signaling
