Siddhartha Roy

Siddhartha Roy
Born (1954-04-01)April 1, 1954
West Bengal, India
Nationality Indian
Fields
Institutions
Alma mater
Doctoral advisor Roberta Colman
Known for Studies on gene expression using the operator-repressor system of bacteriophage lambda
macromolecular interactions leading to high fidelity of protein synthesis
Notable awards 1999 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
USDHHS Meritorious Service Award

Siddhartha Roy (born 1954) is an Indian structural biologist, biophysicist and the director of the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology.[1] Known for his studies on bacteriophage lambda and protein synthesis,[2] he is a former faculty at Bose Institute and an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences[3] and the Indian National Science Academy.[4] 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 1999, for his contributions to biological sciences.[5]

Biography

Born on the 1st April 1954 in the Indian state of West Bengal, Siddhartha Roy obtained an honours degree in chemistry (BSc hons) from Presidency College, Calcutta in 1974 and did his doctoral studies at the University of Delaware under the guidance of Roberta Colman to secure a PhD in 1981.[4] His post-doctoral studies were at Brandeis University at the laboratory of Alfred Redfield (1981–82) and at the National Institutes of Health (1982–86) and returning to India in 1986, he joined Bose Institute, Kolkata as a senior lecturer at their department of biophysics.[4] He served the institute till 2004 holding positions of a reader and a professor of biophysics when he moved to the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology as its director.[6] When he superannuated in 2014, he resumed his association with Bose Institute and continues as a senior professor and dean of studies. In between, he served as the Director-in-charge of the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Kolkata (2007–14), as the Cluster Director of the biological institutes of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) (2009–14) and as a Visiting Professor at Osaka University (2012).[7]

Legacy

Roy's researches during his stint in the US was on protein folding and nuclear magnetic resonance studies of DNA[4] and those researches identified the first hydropathy model which helped in predicting the exteriors and interiors of proteins by analyzing sequence information.[7] He is also reported to have performed the complete assignment of a nucleic acid imino proton spectra using Nuclear Overhauser Effect, regio-specific isotope labeling of sugars in nucleic acids and working along with Ad Bax and R. H. Griffey, developed an indirect 2D-NMR detection method, all reported to be for the first time.[7] Later focusing his attention on bacteriophage lambda, he studied the gene expression of the bacterial virus using its operator-repressor system.[8] Through his collaborative work with Sankar Adhya in 1998, he elucidated the role of differential contact in the transcription regulation mechanism and demonstrated the theory in many genetic regulatory circuits.[4] His current work is focused on peptide therapeutics[7] and he holds patents for some of his work.[9][10][11]

Roy has published his research work through a number of articles published in peer-reviewed journals[note 1] and ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific papers, has listed 155 of them.[12] He has also guided 25 scholars in their doctoral studies.[4] When the Chemical Biology Society of India was formed in 2013, he became its founder president and holds the position.[13] He is a former president of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology and is its incumbent vice president.[14]

Awards and honors

The Indian Academy of Sciences elected Roy as their fellow in 1996[3] and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1999.[5] A recipient of the Meritorious Service Award of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, he was elected by the Indian National Science Academy as a fellow in 2005.[4] In 2007, he was elected as a fellow of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology[15] and he received the J. C. Bose National Fellowship of the Science and Engineering Research Board [16] as well as the Tata Innovation Fellowship of the Department of Biotechnology the same year.[7] he was also a member of Guha Research Conference during the years 1992 and 2012.[7]

Selected bibliography

Patents

The list is incomplete.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Please see Selected bibliography section

References

  1. ↑ "Siddhartha Roy on IICB". Indian Institute of Chemical Biology. 2016. Retrieved October 14, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Fellow profile - Roy". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2016. Retrieved October 6, 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Indian fellow - Roy". Indian National Science Academy. 2016. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
  5. 1 2 "View Bhatnagar Awardees". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
  6. ↑ "CV on IICB". Indian Institute of Chemical Biology. 2016. Retrieved October 14, 2016.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Siddhartha Roy on Bose Institute". Bose Institute. 2016. Retrieved October 14, 2016.
  8. ↑ "Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners" (PDF). Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 1999. p. 34. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
  9. ↑ Sibabrata Mukhopadhyay, Mumu Chakraborty, Arun Bandyopadhyay, Dipak Kar, Tanima Banerjee, Aditya Konar, Debaprasad Jana, Siddhartha Roy, Santu Bandyopadhyay, Balram Ghosh, Mabalirajan Ulaganathan, Rakesh Johri, Subhash Sharma, Gurdarshan Singh, Bholanath Paul, Vasanta Madhava Sharma Gangavaram, Jhillu Singh Yadav, Radha Krishna Palakodety (August 2013). "Method for treatment of bronchial asthma (Patent US8519154B2)".
  10. ↑ Sujoy K Das Gupta, Abhik Saha, Archana Sharma, Siddhartha Roy, Bhabatarak Bhattacharya (January 2012). "Peptide antagonists for inhibiting heat shock protein (Hsp 16.3) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Patent 7569537)". ResearchGate. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
  11. ↑ S. Bandyopadhay, B. Ghosh, Parasuraman Jaisankar, Bikas C Pal, Siddhartha Roy, Nath Paul, Arjun Ram, U. Mabalirajan, Nahid Ali, Arun Bandyopadhyay, Aditya Konar, J. B. Chakraborty, I. C. Mukherjee, Jaydeep Chaudhuri, Sanjit Kumar Mahato, A. Manna, Roma Sinha, Pradyot Bhattacharya, J. Vinayagam, Sudeshna Chowdhury (January 2012). "Substituted catechols as inhibitors of IL-4 and IL-5 for the treatment of bronchial asthma (WO Patent 2,012,140,574)". ResearchGate. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.2784.6488. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
  12. ↑ "Siddhartha Roy on ResearchGate". ResearchGate. 2016. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
  13. ↑ "Present Council CBS". Chemical Biology Society of India. 2016. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
  14. ↑ "Present Council WAST". West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology. 2016. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
  15. ↑ "WAST fellows" (PDF). West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology. 2016. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
  16. ↑ "J. C. Bose National Fellowship" (PDF). Science and Engineering Research Board. 2016. Retrieved October 15, 2016.

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