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Alok Bhattacharya

Alok Bhattacharya
Born (1951-02-02)February 2, 1951
Delhi, India
Residence Delhi, India
Nationality Indian
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Doctoral advisor Asis Datta
Doctoral students Somlata
Notable awards 1994 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
2015 INSA Aryabhatta Medal

Alok Bhattacharya (born 1951) is an Indian parasitologist, academic and a professor at the School of Life Sciences of the Jawaharlal Nehru University. He chairs the Biotechnology Information System Network (BITSNET) as well as the Life Sciences Expert Committee of FIST program of the Department of Science and Technology (DST). He is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy and is known for his studies on Entamoeba histolytica and species-specific calcium binding protein and its gene. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1994, for his contributions to biological sciences.

Alok Bhattacharya, born on 2 February 1951, did his graduate studies in science at Hansraj College of the University of Delhi and obtained a master's degree in chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1972. Subsequently, he did his doctoral research at the School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) under the guidance of Asis Datta, a renowned geneticist and Padma Bhushan laureate, to secure a PhD in 1976. He moved to the US for his post-doctoral studies which he did at the Laboratory of Pathophysiology of National Cancer Institute during 1977–79 and at the Springer Lab of Harvard Medical School from 1979 to 1981. Returning to India the same year, he joined the All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi and worked there as a Senior Research Officer at the Department of Biochemistry till 1982 when he joined Tata Research Development and Design Centre of the Tata Consultancy Services located in Pune where he worked till 1985. In 1986, Bhattacharya had a short stint at the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases of the National Institutes of Health as a guest researcher after which he joined his alma mater, Jawaharlal Nehru University, as an associate professor at their School of Life Sciences where he is the incumbent professor and adjunct faculty. During his service at JNU, he held various positions including that of the Coordinator of Bioinformatics Centre (1998-2008), Dean of School of Life Sciences (2002-2004) and the Dean of School of Information Technology (2004-2008). He is also a Professor of Life Sciences at Shiv Nadar University, Dadri and a visiting faculty at Banaras Hindu University.


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