11 Facts About Shantanu Chowdhury

Shantanu Chowdhury was born on 1968 and is an Indian structural biologist and a professor at Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.

Shantanu Chowdhury is known for developing a mechanism for gene regulation mediated by DNA Secondary-Structure in diverse cellular contexts.

Shantanu Chowdhury, born on 9 September 1968 in the Indian state of West Bengal, completed his master's degree in chemistry at Jadavpur University, Kolkata before securing a PhD from the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad in 1998.

Shantanu Chowdhury returned to India in 2001 and joined Insilico Sciences, Bangalore but his tenure there lasted only one year.

Shantanu Chowdhury's next move was to Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology as a scientist in 2002 where he serves as a professor of functional genomics.

Shantanu Chowdhury's researches have been published in a number of articles and PubMed, an online repository of scientific articles, has listed several of them.

Shantanu Chowdhury is a member of the scientific advisory board of Bionivid, a Bengaluru-based information technology company involved in microarray data analytics and sequencing.

Shantanu Chowdhury sits on the editorial boards of two science journals, Human Genomics and Journal of Biological Chemistry and has served as a peer-reviewer for JBC and PLOS Computational Biology.

In 2007, Shantanu Chowdhury received the Swarnajayanthi Fellowship of the Department of Biotechnology and three years later, DBT honored him again with the 2010 National Bioscience Award for Career Development.

Shantanu Chowdhury was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research the next year.

Shantanu Chowdhury was elected as a fellow by the National Academy of Sciences, India in 2012.