Bose Institute

Bose Institute
Unified campus of Bose Institute
EstablishedNovember 30, 1917 (1917-11-30)
Research typeInterdisciplinary research
Field of research
DirectorKaustuv Sanyal
LocationKolkata, West Bengal, India
22°34′47″N 88°14′30″E / 22.579689°N 88.2417152°E / 22.579689; 88.2417152
CampusEN Block, Sector V, Bidhannagar, Kolkata, West Bengal 700091
Founder
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Operating agency
Department of Science and Technology (India), Government of India
Websitewww.jcbose.ac.in

Bose Institute (or Basu Bigyan Mandir) is a premier public research institute of India for biological sciences and also one of its oldest. The Bose Institute Kolkata is a Tier 1 Natural Science Research Institute in India, sharing the podium with India's top natural science research institutes viz., Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, IISc Bengaluru, NCBS Bengaluru and IIT Bombay. The institute was established on 30 November 1917 by Acharya Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, the father of modern scientific research in the Indian subcontinent. Bose was its director for the first twenty years till his demise. Debendra Mohan Bose, who succeeded the Nobel laureate Sir CV Raman as Palit Professor of Physics at the University of Calcutta, was the director of Bose Institute for the next thirty years. The institute pioneered the concept of interdisciplinary research in Asia and India in sync with global trends.