About Saugata Hazra

Prof. Saugata Hazra is a Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. An alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, Prof. Hazra has obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois; Chicago (2004- 2010) in Structural Biology and Structure based Drug Designing and post-doc from St. Jude Children Research Center, Memphis, USA (2010-2011) and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, USA, in the major area of Structural Biology. He joined IIT Roorkee in 2014. Current research in his group centers on catalytic divergence of enzymes involved in antimicrobial drug resistance and structure based enzyme engineering towards waste valorization. Prof. Hazra is teaching UG/PG courses like Macromolecular Crystallography, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Biochemistry since his joining in IITR. He has published in several peer reviewed journals and recipient of awards like James graduate fellowship, DST-Young Scientist Award and Frontiers of Engineering from Royal Academy of Engineering etc. throughout his career.