Deepak T. Nair
Deepak Thankappan Nair (born 25 October 1973) is an Indian Structural Biologist and a scientist at Regional Centre for Biotechnology. He is known for his studies on DNA and RNA polymerases. Deepak was a Ramanujan fellow of the Science and Engineering Research Board (2008–2013) and a recipient of the National BioScience Award for Career Development (Dept. of Biotechnology). 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, for his contributions to biological sciences in 2017. Biography His parents are from the southern state of Kerala and he was born in Pune in the western state of Maharashtra on 25 October 1973, Deepak Nair went to school at the Jai Hind High School (Pimpri) and then later to the St. Vincents Junior College (Pune). He graduated with BSc in Chemistry from Fergusson College (1994) and completed his master's in biotechnology from the Savitribai Phule Pune University (1996). Subsequently, he enrolled for his doctoral studies at the National Institute of Immunology, India to secure a PhD in structural immunology in 2001. For his PhD he