Joyoti Basu was born on 17 December 1957 and is an Indian biochemist, cell biologist and a senior professor at the Bose Institute.
13 Facts About Joyoti Basu
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Joyoti Basu did her post-doctoral work at the laboratory of Jean-Marie Ghuysen at the University of Liege working on mycobacterial cell division and mycobacterial peptidoglycan-biosynthesizing enzymes.
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Joyoti Basu joined Bose Institute in 1991 as a faculty member at the department of Chemistry and retired in June, 2018.
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Joyoti Basu's alleged scientific misconduct has been noted widely and has even been covered in media.
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Joyoti Basu is widely alleged to have duplicated images leading to retraction of two papers, correction of another two, and, many alleged instances of misconduct listed on Pubpeer.
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Joyoti Basu's research is focused on the cellular and molecular biology of mycobacteria.
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Joyoti Basu is known to be the first scientist to propose that the removal of the aged or oxidatively stressed red blood cells from the circulatory system causes cellular death.
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Joyoti Basu's studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 77 of them.
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Joyoti Basu is a member of the executive committee of the Indian Society of Cell Biology and is a former Treasurer of the Society.
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Joyoti Basu is credited with contributing to the establishment of a program on Systems Biology at the Bose Institute.
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Joyoti Basu is a former associate editor of the Journal of Immunology and is an Academic Editor of PLoS One.
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Joyoti Basu received the Young Scientist Medal of the Indian National Science Academy in 1989.
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Joyoti Basu received the elected fellowships of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Academy of Sciences in 2006 and 2009 respectively.