Souvik Maiti

Souvik Maiti (born in 1971) is an Indian chemist known for his studies in the fields of biophysical chemistry and chemical biology focusing on nucleic acids, DNA and RNA.[1] He works at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology. He is also visiting scientist at National Chemical Laboratory Pune.

He graduated with a bachelor's (1993) and master's (1995) degree in chemistry from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He completed his doctoral research in 1999 in the field of polymer chemistry from CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad.

He is known for his studies on biophysical aspect of quadruplexes, locked nucleic acids. He is also known for his work on silencing microRNAs by small molecules. His group has invented nucleic acid-based enzyme as silencers for microRNA, known as antagomirzymes.Antagomirzymes: oligonucleotide enzymes that specifically silence microRNA function[2] He is recipient of CSIR, NASI-Scopus, CDRI, AVRA Young Scientist Awards and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Chemistry, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awards in 2014.,[3][4][5] National Bioscience Award for Career Development of the Department of Biotechnology in 2015.[6] in Biology, as well as Swarnajayanti Fellowships in Biological Sciences. He is fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, and Indian National Academy of Science, Delhi.

Along with his colleague, Debojyoti Chakraborty, he has co-invented a rapid test for COVID-19, FnCas9 Editor-Linked Uniform Detection Assay, FELUDA.[7][8][9][10] (named after Feluda, a popular fictional detective created by the late Satyajit Ray.) Tata Sons has obtained license from CSIR for commercial launch of this test.[11][12][13][14] Tata group has established a new company, TATA MD and launched this test as a brand name "TATA MD Check". In 2021, CSIR and Tata MD partner to ramp up COVID testing capacity across tier 2, 3 towns and rural areas. [15][16]

References

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  1. ^ "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
  2. ^ Jadhav, V. M.; Scaria, V.; Maiti, S. (2009). "Antagomirzymes: Oligonucleotide enzymes that specifically silence microRNA function". Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. 48 (14): 2557–2560. doi:10.1002/anie.200805521. PMID 19229913.
  3. ^ "Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awards for 10 scientists". BusinessLine. 26 September 2014. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
  4. ^ "Dr. P.S.Ahuja Announces Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 2014". Dr. P.S.Ahuja Announces Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 2014. 26 September 2014. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
  5. ^ "Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science & Technology 2014 List of recipients" (PDF). Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
  6. ^ "N-BIOS awardees 2015" (PDF). Department of Biotechnology. 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
  7. ^ "Low-cost 'Feluda' test to detect virus in an hour likely in 4 weeks". 13 May 2020.
  8. ^ "COVID-19 test result in minutes! 'Feluda' India's first paper strip test; check details". 6 May 2020.
  9. ^ Koshy, Jacob (23 June 2020). "Change in ICMR rules stalls COVID-19 test kits from government labs". The Hindu.
  10. ^ "COVID-19 outbreak: CSIR develops low-cost, paper-based, 30-minute testing kit 'Feluda' - the Economic Times Video | ET Now". Archived from the original on 7 August 2020. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  11. ^ "Tata Sons to help make 'Feluda', CSIR's Satyajit Ray-inspired Covid paper test kit". ThePrint. 7 May 2020.
  12. ^ "Tata Sons to Scale-up Covid-19 Testing Kit 'Feluda'". Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  13. ^ "| the Machine Maker". 9 May 2020.
  14. ^ "Feluda Test Kit: Made-in-India paper-based strip for rapid, mass testing for Covid-19 | India News - Times of India". The Times of India. 6 May 2020.
  15. ^ "TataMD & ADL partner to transform COVID testing thru' TataMD CHECK". The Economic Times.
  16. ^ "CSIR, Tata MD partner to ramp up Covid testing capacity across tier 2, 3 towns and rural areas". The Economic Times. 18 June 2021. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
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