Rajagopal Chattopadhyaya
Bose Institute, India
Biography
Rajagopal Chattopadhyaya (b.1957) completed his PhD (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, professor since 2006. His work at Bose Institute is mentioned in the Encycl. Britannica. Book of the Year, 1996 and LexA model in Burton E. Tropp’s Molecular Biology : Genes to Proteins, 3rd edn, a continuation of David Freifelder’s classic undergraduate textbook. Structural Biologist, biochemist, religious historian & author (as a hobby).