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NCBS
Fellow
Mayor Satyajit
Senior Professor and Director
Current nationality
India
Current country of residence
India
Affiliation / Institution
National Centre for Biological Science Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, bangalore 560065
Biodata
Mayor is an Indian cell biologist. After studying chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, he was awarded his PhD in life sciences from The Rockefeller University, New York, and worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University. In 1995, he joined the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore, a centre of TIFR where he has been studying the fine structure and the function of the membrane of living cells using methods derived from biology, chemistry, and physics. He has been elected as a Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian Science Academy, a Foreign Fellow of National Academy of Sciences (USA), and European Molecular Biology Organization. He has been awarded the TWAS Prize in Biology and the Infosys Prize in Life Sciences. He serves as Director of NCBS, and was Director of the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem) at Bangalore, and is founding director of Centre for Cell and Molecular Platforms (CCAMP), a technology enabler and biotech start-up incubator; together these make up the Bangalore Life Science Cluster, a multi-institutional organization that he has driven since 2015.
Sustainable Development Goals
Keywords
Cell biology, Membrane Biophysics, MembraneTrafficking, Tissue Scale Cell biology
ELECTED
2020
Place of birth
Baroda, Gujarat
Country of birth
India
DATE OF BIRTH
26
January
1963
Section
02. Biological Sciences
TWAS Awards
TWAS Prize in Biology (2010)
mayor_satyajit_cv.docx
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Country where living and working for the majority of the last 10 years
India
Public contact information
EMAIL
mayor@ncbs.res.in
Website, social media accounts or additional info
http://ncbs.res.in/mayor
List of publications
mayor_satyajit_lp.docx
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Last updated on 12/07/2023