Suvendra Nath Bhattacharyya, born on 4 October 1975 in the Indian state of West Bengal, did his early schooling at Harinavi DVAS High School.[5] He completed his M.Sc. from Ballygunge Campus of Calcutta University. After securing a PhD from Jadavpur University, he joined the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB) as a research fellow in 1998 and on completion of the fellowship in 2003, he moved to Friedrich Miescher Institute where he did his post-doctoral studies from 2004 to 2008 on a Human Frontier Science Program fellowship.[6] Returning to India the same year, he joined IICB as a scientist at the Molecular and Human Genetics Division.[1] He heads the RNA Biology Research Laboratory (RBRL, popularly known as Bhattacharyya Lab)[7] of the institute where serves as the principal investigator and hosts a number of research scholars.[8]
Bhattacharyya's researches at RBRL is mainly on microRNA (miRNA), focusing on its compartmentalization, regulation and mediation as well as its alteration in Leishmania invaded macrophage and neighboring non-macrophage cells.[9] His researches assisted in identifying cholesterol as a modulator in leishmaniasis infection and his team has developed a therapeutic protocol for treating leishmaniasis by administering microRNA molecules in patients which has been found to raise the cholesterol level which in turn reduced the parasite levels.[10] The treatment, combined with other drugs have been reported to be effective in treating the disease commonly known as Kala azar, which has a reported high drug resistance. One of his earlier projects, Mechanism of mRNA compartmentalization in the cytoplasm of mammalian cells, was funded by the Wellcome Trust.[11] On his current project, miRNA expoprt and Stability,[12] he has worked on the mammalian immune and cancer cells and reportedly discovered miRNA activity modulation mechanisms in those cells.[1]
At his laboratory, Bhattacharyya mentors many post-doctoral and doctoral researchers.[8] He has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals and the online knowledge repositories which have listed his articles include ResearchGate,[13]Google Scholar,[14] and PubMed.[15] He is a member of the Neurobiology Task force of the Department of Biotechnology[16] and was a member of Local Organizing Committee of the APSN-ISN Neuroscience School held in January 2014.[17] He has delivered several featured talks[18] and has assisted others in their researches.[19]
Ramesh S Pillai; Suvendra N Bhattacharyya; Witold Filipowicz (March 2007). "Repression of protein synthesis by miRNAs: how many mechanisms?". Trends in Cell Biology. 17 (3): 118–126. doi:10.1016/j.tcb.2006.12.007. PMID17197185.
