Tej Pal Singh
Department of Biophysics
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Tej Pal Singh obtained BSc and MSc degrees from University of Allahabad, and PhD (1976) from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore under the supervision of Professor M Vijayan. He then joined University of Indore as Lecturer. Thereafter, he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship with Professor Robert Huber at the Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Munich, Germany and worked there on the structure determinations of serine proteases including trypsin and trypsinogen at sub zero temperatures. Upon returning to India in 1980, he joined as Reader at the Sardar Patel University and set up a centre of X-ray crystallographic research. In 1982, he joined the Institute for Crystallography, Berlin to work on the structure determinations of Proteinase K and Rubisco enzymes. In 1983, he joined the Department of Biophysics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi where he continues to work as DBT-Distinguished Research Professor.
Research Interest
Structural Biology, Protein Structures, Peptide Design and Drug Discovery
