Affiliation: School of Biomedical Sciences, Galgotias University, Greater Noida

Dr. Somenath Roy Chowdhury started his academic career with a BTech in Biotechnology from The West Bengal University of Technology (WBUT), presently known as Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (MAKAUT). After BTech, he worked as a Junior Research Fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in an industry-academia collaborative project between IIT, Kharagpur, and ONGC, New Delhi. Later, he joined the Infectious Diseases & Immunology Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata for his doctoral studies. He worked to develop topoisomerase-targeted compounds for antileishmanial and anticancer applications. He did a brief postdoc in the same Institute as a CSIR-Research Associate. He elucidated the functional interplay between TDP1 and MRE11, two DNA damage repair proteins, in Leishmania donovani. He received The National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) - Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award (2020) for his contributions in biological research. He is a recipient of many National & International Awards like CNPq-Brazilian National Visiting Fellowship (2016), the “Special Research Achievement Award” by CSIR-IICB (2018), the EMBO-Travel Grant (2019), “Professional Enhancement Grant” by TATA-Education & Development Trust (2019) and many more. In 2021, he received the very prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship and worked at the Institute of Physical Chemistry, Universität Münster (Formerly, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität-Münster, Germany), in the field of single-molecule biophysics. To date, he has sixteen International publications. Dr. Roy Chowdhury has also filed an Indian patent. Apart from academic interests, he is formally trained in Indian Classical Music and ‘Rabindrasangeet’.