Tushar Kanti Chakraborty

Tushar Kanti Chakraborty
Born	(1957-04-10) 10 April 1957 West Bengal, India
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	Presidency College Calcutta University IIT Kanpur University of Pennsylvania
Known for	Synthesis of unnatural amino acids, cyclic peptides and biologically active natural products
Awards	1991 CSIR Young Scientist Award 1991 A. P. Akademi of Sciences Young Scientist Award 1999 ICS Dr. Basudev Banerjee Memorial Award 2002 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize 2002 CRSI Bronze Medal 2005 Andhra Pradesh Scientist Award 2005 Innocentive Champion 2006 NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award 2009 Jawaharlal Nehru National Award
Scientific career
Fields	Organic chemistry
Institutions	Indian Institute of Chemical Technology Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Scripps Research Institute Central Drug Research Institute Indian Institute of Science
Doctoral advisor	Srinivasan Chandrasekaran K. C. Nicolaou

Tushar Kanti Chakraborty (born 1957) is an Indian organic chemist and former professor at the Indian Institute of Science. He has served as a director of the Central Drug Research Institute and as a chief scientist at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology. He is known for the discovery of novel macrocyclic systems. He is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy National Academy of Sciences, India and the Indian Academy of Sciences. 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 2002, for his contributions to chemical sciences.