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Rajagopal Chattopadhyaya

Rajagopal Chattopadhyaya PhD

Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Kolkata, West Bengal, India

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Rajagopal Chattopadhyaya completed his Ph.D. (UCLA,1987) under Richard Dickerson, who as a postdoc solved the 2Å structure of myoglobin under John Kendrew. Rajagopal did his postdoctoral work at UC Berkeley and Baylor College of Medicine. He has been a faculty member at Bose Institute since 1993, and a professor since 2006. His work at Bose Institute is mentioned in the Encycl. Britannica. Book of the Year, 1996 and Lexi model in Burton E. Tropp’s Molecular Biology: Genes to Proteins, 3rd and, a continuation of David Freifelder’s classic undergraduate textbook. Structural Biologist, biochemist, religious historian & author (as a hobby).