Santanu Bhattacharya

Santanu Bhattacharya
Santanu Bhattacharya
Born	23 April 1958; West Bengal, India
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	Rajabazar Science College; University of Calcutta; Rutgers University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Known for	Molecular design of natural and synthetic lipids and membranes for gene delivery and synthesis of novel peptides and for sequence-specific DNA recognition. Synthesis of unnatural amino acids, DNA binding small molecules, and biologically active natural products
Awards	1997 B. M. Birla Prize; 1999 MRSI Medal; 2002 N-BIOS Prize; 2003 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize; 2004 PU Bhagyatara National Award; 2004 CDRI Award; 2007 G. D. Birla Award; 2010 TWAS Prize; 2013 Ranbaxy Research Award;
	Scientific career
Fields	Bioorganic chemistry; Supramolecular chemistry;
Institutions	Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science; Indian Institute of Science; Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research;
Doctoral advisor	Robert A. Moss; Har Gobind Khorana;

Santanu Bhattacharya (born 1958) is an Indian chemical biologist and former professor at the Indian Institute of Science. At, present he is the Director of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Tirupati (IISER-Tirupati). He is known for his studies of unnatural amino acids, oligopeptides, designed and natural lipids and biologically active natural products and is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy The World Academy of Sciences 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 2003, for his contributions to chemical sciences. He is also a recipient of the National Bioscience Award for Career Development of the Department of Biotechnology (2002) and the TWAS Prize (2010).

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