Tushar Kanti Chakraborty

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Tushar Kanti Chakraborty
Born (1957-04-10) 10 April 1957 (age 67)
Scripps Research Institute
  • Central Drug Research Institute
  • Indian Institute of Science
    • Doctoral advisor

    Tushar Kanti Chakraborty (born 1957) is an Indian organic chemist and former professor at the Indian Institute of Science.[1] He has served as a director of the Central Drug Research Institute and as a chief scientist at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology.[2] He is known for the discovery of novel macrocyclic systems.[3] He is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy[4] National Academy of Sciences, India[5] and the Indian Academy of Sciences.[6] 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.[7]

    Biography

    Central Drug Research Institute

    T. K. Chakraborty was born on 10 April 1957 in the Indian state of

    Scripps Research Institute as a visiting scientist. At IICT, he rose from a C-grade scientist to a G-grade chief scientist by 2008 when he was appointed as the director of the Central Drug Research Institute to superannuate from service in 2013.[8] Post-retirement, he serves as a professor at the Indian Institute of Science since 2014 where he served till April 2024.[2]

    Legacy

    Chakraborty's research covered the design and synthesis of

    rapamycin, stevastelins and antascomicin).[4] He has published his research in several peer-reviewed articles;[10] ResearchGate, an online repository of science articles, has listed 243 of them.[11] He has also mentored several doctoral scholars in their studies.[4]

    Awards and honors

    Chakraborty received two awards in 1991, the Young Scientist Award of the Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sciences and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).

    Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards.[12] In between, he received Dr. Basudev Banerjee Memorial Award of the Indian Chemical Society in 1999. The year 2002 brought him one more award, the Bronze Medal of the Chemical Research Society of India.[13] He received the Andhra Pradesh Scientist Award and the Innocentive Champion Medal in 2005. The NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award reached him in 2006 and three years later, he received the Jawaharlal Nehru National Award in Science from the Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology.[2] Holder of the J. C. Bose National Fellowship in 2008, he was elected by the National Academy of Sciences, India as their fellow in 2000[5] and he became an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 2003[6] and the Indian National Science Academy in 2007.[4]

    See also

    References

    1. ^ "Tushar Kanti Chakraborty". Indian Institute of Science. 2016. Archived from the original on 7 June 2019. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
    2. ^ a b c d "Faculty profile". Indian Institute of Science. 2016. Archived from the original on 18 June 2019. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
    3. ^ "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
    4. ^ a b c d e "Indian Fellow Detail / Dr TK Chakraborty". Indian National Science Academy. 2016. Archived from the original on 19 October 2018. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
    5. ^ a b "NASI fellows". National Academy of Sciences, India. 2016.
    6. ^ a b "Fellow profile". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
    7. ^ "View Bhatnagar Awardees". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
    8. ^ a b "Former Director". Central Drug Research Institute. 2016. Archived from the original on 4 June 2009. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
    9. ^ "Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners" (PDF). Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 1999. p. 34. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
    10. ^ "Browse by Fellow". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2016.
    11. ^ "Chakraborty on ResearchGate". 2016.
    12. ^ "Chemical Sciences". Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2016. Archived from the original on 12 September 2012. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
    13. ^ "Bronze Medal". Chemical Research Society of India. 2016.

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