14 Facts About Siddhartha Roy

Siddhartha Roy was born on 1 April 1954 and is an Indian structural biologist, biophysicist, former director of the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology and the former director of Bose Institute.

Siddhartha Roy completed his schooling at Ballygunge Government High School, then obtained a first class honours degree in chemistry from Presidency College, Calcutta in 1974 and did his doctoral studies at the University of Delaware under the guidance of Prof.

Siddhartha Roy served the Institute till 2004 holding positions of reader and then professor of biophysics when he moved to the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology as its director.

Siddhartha Roy has served as the president of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology.

Siddhartha Roy is the founder-president of the Chemical Biology Society of India.

Siddhartha Roy currently serves as a member of the board of directors of the International Chemical Biology Society.

Siddhartha Roy served as the director of Bose Institute during the critical Centenary year.

Siddhartha Roy is 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.

Siddhartha Roy has published his research work through a number of articles published in peer-reviewed journals and ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific papers, has listed 155 of them.

Siddhartha Roy is a joint editor of Subcellular Biochemistry, volume on Proteins: Structure, Function, and Engineering published by Plenum Press, New York, USA and Protein-Protein interaction Regulators published by Royal Society of Chemistry, UK.

Siddhartha Roy has guided around 30 scholars in their doctoral studies.

Siddhartha Roy is a former president of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology and is its incumbent vice president.

Siddhartha Roy was a member of Guha Research Conference during the years 1992 and 2012.

Siddhartha Roy is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK and has been elected a member of The World Academy of Sciences.