Prof. Siddhartha Roy

Prof. Siddhartha Roy is the co-founder, Director, and Chief Strategist, at ATGC Diagnostics. Earlier he has served as the Director of CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (2004-14), Founder Director-in-charge (2007-14) of National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research-Kolkata (an institute of National Importance created by an act of Parliament), CSIR Cluster-Director (Biology), overseeing research planning and budgets of 11 CSIR institutes across India, JC Bose National Fellow, and Senior Professor, Department Chair, Dean (2015-18), and Director (officiating) (2016-18) of Bose Institute, Kolkata, India.  He is the recipient of several awards, noteworthy among these is the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India. He was also a Visiting Scientist at the National Institutes of Health (USA) and a Visiting Professor at Osaka University, Japan. He is the Founder-President of the Chemical Biology Society (India), a member of the Asian Chemical Biology Initiative (Japan), and a member of the Governing Board of Directors of the International Chemical Biology Society. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, the Indian Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and The World Academy of Science, Trieste. He has served on Editorial Boards of several prominent international journals. Prof. Roy has served in numerous governing councils and scientific advisory committees of premier research institutes. Prof. Roy obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Delaware (USA) and did his postdoctoral training at Brandeis University (USA) and the National Institutes of Health (USA). His primary research interest is understanding gene regulation from chemical and structural perspectives. He has published more than 150 articles in prominent International Journals.
He has edited two books and co-authored two books:
1. Chemical Biology of the Genome (Elsevier).
2.  Gene Expression and its Regulation: An Evolutionary Perspective (Springer).