Welcome to the Department 

The Department of Biological Chemistry started about 30 years back in 1986, as a result of rearrangement of the Department of Macromolecules. This Department has been making consistent efforts over the past 30 years to foster excellence in biochemical/biophysical research in an inter-/multi-disciplinary manner, in line with the national and international trends.Over the last decade, researchers have 1) established the importance of peptide-based soft nanomaterial and supramolecular self assemblies in Biomedicine, 2) developed nanoscale Biosensing/Bioelectronics/Imaging approaches and understanding, and 3) developed understanding on the biochemical and biophysical properties of Cancer and Immune cells.

The Department has recently initiated an Institutional interdisciplinary teaching-cum-research program 'Integrated M.Sc. Ph.D. in Chemical and Molecular Biology' in collaboration with Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur.

FACULTY MEMBERS AND THEIR RESEARCH INTERESTS 

• Arindam Banerjee, Senior Professor
  Peptide-based Funtional Biomaterials, Chemical Biology and Nanohybrids

• Benu Brata Das, Associate Professor and Wellcome Trust / DBT India Alliance Intermediate Fellow

• Deepak Kumar Sinha, Associate Professor
  Cell and tissue biophysics  

• Prasanta Kumar Das, Senior Professor
  Supramolecular self-assemblies: Biocatalysis to Biomedicine

• Prosenjit Sen, Associate Professor
  Coagulation biology  

• Rupa Mukhopadhyay, Professor and Head
  Functional biointerfaces: Sensing, Electron transport and Single molecule structural biology  

• Siddhartha Sankar Jana, Professor
  Molecular cell biology