1. Dipankar Chatterji was born on 20 April 1951 and is an Indian molecular biologist and the Honorary Professor at Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, a multidisciplinary research institute under the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India.
Dipankar Chatterji is known for his pioneering research on bacterial transcription.
Dipankar Chatterji is a recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize and is an elected fellow of all the major Indian science academies.
Dipankar Chatterji, who is known to have done research on bacteria such as Escherichia coli and Mycobacterium tuberculosis as well as the Omega factor with regard to the bacterial transcription mechanism and genome expression, is an adjunct professor of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata and holds the Distinguished Research Professorship of the Institute of Life Sciences, Hyderabad.
Dipankar Chatterji's researches have been documented by way of over 150 articles published in peer-reviewed international journals and he mentors 31 research scholars in his laboratory.
Dipankar Chatterji is a recipient of the IISc Alumnus Award and is the president of the Indian Institute of Science.
Dipankar Chatterji has served as a visiting fellow at National Institute of Genetics, Japan and Johns Hopkins University and has served as a council member of the Indian National Science Academy from 2002 to 2004.
Dipankar Chatterji presided over the council of the Indian Academy of Sciences from 2013 to 2015 besides holding the position of its secretary from 2010 to 2012.
Dipankar Chatterji has been involved as a member in the advisory committee for 'International Conference on Genome Biology 2019 ' organized by the School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University.
Dipankar Chatterji received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, the highest Indian award in the Science and Technology categories, from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in 1992.
Dipankar Chatterji is a recipient of the Millennium Gold Medal and Ranbaxy Research Award.