Satyajit Mayor
Satyajit Mayor | |
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| Born | 26 January 1963 |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | IIT Bombay Rockefeller University |
| Awards | Infosys Prize for Life Sciences (2012) JC Bose Fellowship, DST (2006-2016) Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, CSIR,(2003) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biology, Cell biology, Membrane Biology, Cell signaling |
| Institutions | National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore |
| Doctoral advisor | George A.M. Cross |
| Website | https://www.ncbs.res.in/faculty/mayor |
Satyajit Mayor (born 1963) is an Indian biologist. Mayor is the former director of the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem) at Bangalore, which has a focus on the study of stem cell and regenerative biology and of the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore. Since 2024, Mayor is a Leverhulme International Professor at Warwick Medical School in the Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology.
In 2012, Mayor won the Infosys Prize for life sciences for his study of regulated cell surface organization and membrane dynamics.