Santanu Dasgupta
Senior Vice President at Reliance
- Role
- Senior Vice President at Reliance Industries Limited
- Location
- Mumbai, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Santanu Dasgupta
Dr. Dasgupta spent more than 30 years in Biotechnology research in various key leadership roles. Dr. Dasgupta has contributed significantly to the discovery of various biotech traits and led many breakthrough global agriculture biotechnology programs. Apart from being the author of papers in several International journals, Dr. Dasgupta is also the inventor of numerous patents across various countries in the area of pathogen resistance in plants, drought tolerance and gene expression, improved algae; high value chemicals and has contributed papers in over 100 National and international meetings and symposium. He did his B.Sc. Honours degree in chemistry, Masters in Biochemistry from University of Kalyani and is having a Ph.D. in Plant Molecular Biology from the Bose Institute, Kolkata. Dr. Dasgupta completed his Post-Doctoral research from University of Kentucky, USA. In addition to many technical and leadership roles, Dr. Dasgupta also worked as Director, Regulatory policy and Scientific Affairs at Monsanto company, St. Louis and also in India and played a significant role in Biotech outreach and regulatory policy for Biotech traits in India. He is currently heading the Biology/Biotech R&D at Reliance Industries with a focus on biofuel, food, feed, nutrition and biomaterials produced through synthetic biology route. Specialties: Project Management People Leadership Research strategy and Operation External Collaboration
Experience
Senior Vice President
Sep 2016 — Present · Mumbai, IN
Education
University of Burdwan
B. Sc.(Chemistry), Chemistry
1980 — 1984
Bose Institute
Ph. D, Molecular Biology
1989 — 1993
University of Kentucky
PDF, Plant Biotechnology
University of Kalyani
M.Sc, Biochemistry
1984 — 1989
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