Tushar Kanti Chakraborty
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April 10, 1957 West Bengal, India |
| Residence | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
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| Known for | Synthesis of unnatural amino acids, cyclic peptides and biologically active natural products |
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Tushar Kanti Chakraborty (born 1957) is an Indian organic chemist and a professor at the Indian Institute of Science. He has served as a director of Central Drug Research Institute and as a chief scientist at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology. He is known for the discovery of novel macrocyclic systems and is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science AcademyNational Academy of Sciences, India and the Indian Academy of Sciences 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 2002, for his contributions to chemical sciences.
T. K. Chakraborty, born on the 10 April 1957 in the Indian state of West Bengal, completed his graduate studies (BSc hons) in 1977 at Presidency College, (then under Calcutta University) and joined the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur where he did his master's course in 1979. He continued at IIT Kanpur for his doctoral studies under the guidance of Srinivasan Chandrasekaran, a Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate, and secured a PhD in 1984 before moving to University of Pennsylvania where he did his post-doctoral studies at the laboratory of K. C. Nicolaou. He returned to India in 1987 and started his career as a C-grade scientist at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology. He served IICT for more than two decades except for two breaks; the first for 6 months in 1989 as an exchange visitor at Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Modcow and the second, for 2 years from 1992 to 1994 at Scripps Research Institute as a visiting scientist. At IICT, he rose from C-grade scientist to G-grade chief scientist by 2008 when he was appointed as the director of Central Drug Research Institute to superannuate from service in 2013. Post-retirement, he serves as a professor at the Indian Institute of Science since 2014.
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