Sudipto Roy

Biography

  Sudipto Roy was educated at some of the most distinguished institutions in India. He graduated in 1991 with a first class first in zoology (honors) from Presidency College in Calcutta, and again secured the first position during his M.Sc. studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, in 1993. He then moved to the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore, where he obtained a Ph.D. in developmental genetics, studying the cellular and genetic basis of muscle and neuronal development in the fruit fly, Drosophila, with K. VijayRaghavan. During this period, he travelled to Brandeis University in the US and to Cambridge University, England, as a visiting graduate student. He began post-doctoral studies at the Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics at the University of Sheffield, England, in 1998, where he initiated research into vertebrate development using the zebrafish embryo in the laboratory of Philip Ingham. In 2002, he joined the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Singapore as a Young Investigator, and was a Principal Investigator (Assistant Professor) from 2003-2008. Dr. Roy is currently a Senior Principal Investigator and is an adjunct Associate Professor with the Department of Biological Sciences and the Department of Pediatrics of the National University of Singapore. He has been the recipient of several awards and fellowships from international organizations that include the Company of Biologists, the Wellcome Trust, the Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSP) and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). He has been honored with the prestigious Indian National Science Academy Young Scientist Medal by the President of India (2002), the STAR Employee Award from the Agency for Science Technology and Research of Singapore (2012), and more recently, the first distinguished alumnus award from the National Centre for Biological Sciences (2016).

Research Interest

  Molecular and Cell Biology