Bhattacharya Santanu

Bhattacharya is professor, Dept. of Organic Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India. He received his PhD at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, in bioorganic chemistry, focusing on kinetic differentiation of bilayer surfaces in synthetic functional vesicles. He then worked as NIH postdoctoral fellow at MIT, in the laboratory of Nobel laureate H. Gobind Khorana, focusing on the biology and chemistry of signal transduction involving membrane proteins. He subsequently moved to IISc Bangalore where he ultimately became full professor. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Sciences (INSA) and the Indian Academy of Sciences. He has won the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Chemical Sciences from the Prime Minister of India, the TWAS Prize in Chemical Sciences in 2010, AV Rama Rao Endowment Lecture 2010, a J C Bose fellowship and the GD Birla Award.