Sunil Kumar Podder
Born(1937-02-01)1 February 1937
Barisal District, Bengal Presidency,
British India
(now in Bangladesh)
Died22 April 2023(2023-04-22) (aged 86)
NationalityIndian
Alma materCalcutta University (MSc, PhD)
Known forBiophysical Studies on Ligand
Awards1982 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
Scientific career
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Doctoral advisorSadhan Basu
Other academic advisorsManfred Eigen
Doctoral studentsDipankar Chatterji

Sunil Kumar Podder (1 February 1937–22 April 2023) was an Indian molecular biologist and biophysicist, known for his biophysical studies on Ligand.[1] Focusing his researches on the recognition processes in biological systems and their chemical specificity, he proposed a model for measuring the specificity using free energy of association of amino acids of proteins with nucleic acid bases.[2]

Podder took his doctorate under noted polymer chemist Sadhan Basu, subsequently conducting post-doctoral studies at the University of Pittsburgh and the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry; he studied under Manfred Eigen at the latter institution.[3] A former member of faculty at the department of biochemistry of the Indian Institute of Science where he taught from 1972 to 1997,[4] and a life member of the Indian Biophysical Society,[5] he published several articles detailing his research findings in peer reviewed journals[6][7][8][9] and has presented many papers.[10] The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1982, for his contributions to biological sciences.[11]

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  1. ^ "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
  2. ^ "Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners" (PDF). Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 1999. p. 34. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
  3. ^ Chakrabarti, Abhijit; Chatterji, Dipankar (10 June 2023). "Obituary: Sunil Kumar Podder (1937–2023)" (PDF). Current Science. 124 (11): 1355–1356. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
  4. ^ "Former Faculty". Indian Institute of Science. Archived from the original on 17 June 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  5. ^ "Life member". Indian Biophysical Society. 2016. Archived from the original on 15 March 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  6. ^ Radha Ramkumar, Sunil Kumar Podder (September 2000). "Elucidation of the mechanism of interaction of sheep spleen galectin-1 with splenocytes and its role in cell–matrix adhesion". Journal of Molecular Recognition. 13 (5): 299–309. doi:10.1002/1099-1352(200009/10)13:5<299::AID-JMR504>3.0.CO;2-O. PMID 10992292. S2CID 45928144.
  7. ^ Panakkezhum Devasia Thomas, Sunil Kumar Podder (June 1982). "Reactivity of glycoconjugates in membranes. I. Determination of transbilayer distribution of gangliosides in lipid vesicles by chemical methods". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 688 (2): 453–459. doi:10.1016/0005-2736(82)90356-X. PMID 6285968.
  8. ^ Icy D'Silva, Sunil Kumar Podder (November 1994). "Peanut agglutinin from callus and cell suspension cultures of Arachis hypogaea L.". Plant Cell Reports. 14 (1): 50–54. doi:10.1007/BF00233298. PMID 24194227. S2CID 23760246.
  9. ^ Shalini SHARMA, Satish BHARADWAJ, Avadhesha SUROLIA, Sunil Kumar PODDER (August 1998). "Evaluation of the stoichiometry and energetics of carbohydrate binding to Ricinus communis agglutinin: a calorimetric study". Biochemical Journal. 333 (3): 539–542. doi:10.1042/bj3330539. PMC 1219614. PMID 9677310.((cite journal)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ "Invited talks and Paper Presentation" (PDF). University of Indore. 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  11. ^ "View Bhatnagar Awardees". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 19 September 2016.


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