Tapas Kumar Kundu
| Tapas Kumar Kundu | |
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January 2, 1962 Hili, West Bengal, India |
| Residence | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
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| Doctoral advisor | M. R. S. Rao |
| Known for | Studies on regulation of Gene expression |
| Notable awards | 1993 International Council of Scientific Union Award 1995 IISc Giri Memorial Award 2005 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize 2005 N-BIOS Prize 2008 NASI-Reliance Platinum Jubilee Award 2011 G. D. Birla Award for Scientific Research 2011 Ranbaxy Research Award 2012 MM India Innovation Award |
Tapas Kumar Kundu (born 1962) is an Indian molecular biologist, academic and the head of the Transcription and Disease Laboratory of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research. He is known for his studies on the regulation of Gene expression and his contributions in cancer diagnostics and the development of new drug candidates for cancer and AIDS therapeutics. He is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences,Indian National Science Academy and the National Academy of Sciences, India and a J. C. Bose National Fellow of the Department of Science and Technology. 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 2005, for his contributions to biological sciences. He is also a recipient of the National Bioscience Award for Career Development of the Department of Biotechnology.
Born on 2 January 1962 at Hili, a border town in the Indian state of West Bengal to Kalachand Kundu and Dipali couple, Tapas Kumar Kundu graduated in agriculture (BSc hons) from Bidhan Chandra Agricultural University in 1986 and completed his master's degree in biochemistry from University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore in 1989, winning a gold medal for standing first in the master's degree examination. He enrolled for doctoral studies at the Indian Institute of Science in 1990 and secured a PhD under the guidance of M. R. S. Rao in 1995 for his thesis, Zinc-Metalloprotein Nature of Rat Spermatidal Protein TP2 and its Interactions with DNA. After a short stint at the National Institute of Genetics, Japan during 1995–96 as a visiting foreign research associate, he did his post-doctoral studies at the Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Rockefeller University during 1996–99. Returning to India the same year, he joined Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research at their Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit where he became an assistant professor in 2005 and heads the Transcription and Disease Laboratory of the institution in the capacity of a JNCASR Silver Jubillee Professor since 2015.
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