Bose Institute

Bose Institute (or Basu Bigyan Mandir) is a premier public research institute of India for biological sciences and also one of its oldest.^[1] The Bose Institute Kolkata is a Tier 1 Natural Science Research Institute in India, sharing the podium with India's top natural science research institutes viz., Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, IISc Bengaluru, NCBS Bengaluru and IIT Bombay. The institute was established on 30 November 1917 by Acharya Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, the father of modern scientific research in the Indian subcontinent. Bose was its director for the first twenty years till his demise. Debendra Mohan Bose, who succeeded the Nobel laureate Sir CV Raman as Palit Professor of Physics at the University of Calcutta, was the director of Bose Institute for the next thirty years. The institute pioneered the concept of interdisciplinary research in Asia and India in sync with global trends.

Bose Institute

Unified campus of Bose Institute
Established	November 30, 1917; 107 years ago (1917-11-30)
Research type	Interdisciplinary research
Field of research	Functional Plant Biology Plant genetic resources Structural Studies and Biophysical Problems Computational biology Molecular medicine Applied Microbiology Systems and Synthetic Biology Physical science Environmental science Complex Systems
Director	Kaustuv Sanyal
Location	Kolkata, West Bengal, India 22°34′47″N 88°14′30″E
Campus	EN Block, Sector V, Bidhannagar, Kolkata, West Bengal 700091
Founder	Jagadish Chandra Bose
Operating agency	Department of Science and Technology (India), Government of India
Website	www.jcbose.ac.in

Academics

Research

Current concentration of research is in the fields of biotechnology, plant biology, microbiology, molecular medicine, biochemistry, biophysics, bioinformatics and environmental science. The institute pioneered the concept of interdisciplinary research in Asia and India in sync with global trends. The pioneering work of Jagadish Chandra Bose at the dawn of Bose institute on the effect of stimuli in plants was helpful in the establishment of the electrical nature of the conduction of various stimuli in plants. The institute has contributed to extremely important discoveries and has been home to internationally renowned researchers like Sambhu Nath De (discoverer of the cholera toxin), Debendra Mohan Bose (who pioneered the use of photographic emulsion plates in particle physics as attested by the Nobel laureate Sir C. F. Powell ) along with Bhibha Chowdhuri and others, Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya, Shyamadas Chatterjee (known for research on fusion) etc.

Directors
Jagadish Chandra Bose, 1917–1937 Debendra Mohan Bose, 1937–1967 Sourindra Mohan Sircar, 1967–1975 Sushil Kumar Mukherjee, 1976 S.C. Bhattacharyya, 1977–1984 Birendra Bijoy Biswas, 1985–1990 P.K. Roy, 1992–2000 Maqsood Siddiqui, 2001–2005 Sibaji Raha, 2006–2016 Uday Bandyopadhyay, 2019–2024 Kaustuv Sanyal, 2024–present

Museum

Jagadish Chandra Bose himself started the display of his instruments which, as a continuous process, made their way into the present museum in the year 1986–87. The main purpose of this technological museum is to display and maintain some of the instruments designed, made and used by Sir J. C. Bose, his personal belongings and memorabilia. The museum is housed in the main campus at 93/1 A. P. C. road (formerly Upper Circular road) and is open on all weekdays.^[2][3]

Funding

Bose institute is funded by Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India.^[4]

Notable researchers

• Jagadish Chandra Bose – Physicist, biologist and botanist (1857–1937)
• Debendra Mohan Bose – Indian physicist (1885–1975)
• Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya – Indian entomologist (1895–1981)
• Bibha Chowdhuri – Indian cosmic ray physicist (1913–1991)
• Sambhu Nath De – Indian medical researcher (1915–1985)
• Probir Roy – Indian particle physicist (born 1942)
• Indrani Bose – Indian physicist (born 1951)
• Siddhartha Roy – Indian scientist (born 1954)
• Dipankar Home – Indian physicist (born 1955)
• Joyoti Basu – Indian medical researcher (born 1957)
• Sampa Das – Indian biotechnologist