Debasisa Mohanty

Debasisa Mohanty (born 30 November 1966) is an Indian computational biologist, bioinformatician and a staff scientists at the National Institute of Immunology, India.

Born on 30 November 1966,[1] Debasisa Mohanty earned a post graduate degree (MSc) in physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1988 and did his doctoral studies at the Molecular Biophysics Unit of the Indian Institute of Science to secure a PhD in computational biophysics in 1994.

[2] Subsequently, he completed his post-doctoral work, first the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and, later, at the Scripps Research Institute.

[9] Mohanty was a member of the national organizing committee of the International Conference in Bioinformatics (INCOB) held in 2006 in India [10] and has delivered invited speeches at various conferences which included the seminar series on Proteomics and bioinformatics of the Regional Centre for Biotechnology held in 2013,[11] the Symposium on Accelerating Biology 2017: Delivering Precision of the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) held in January 2017 in Pune,[12] and the Symposium on Functional Genomics organized by the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology in Delhi in December 2017.

[13] Mohanty received the Samanta Chandrashekhar Award of the Orissa Bigyan Academy in 2005[14] and the Rajib Goyal Young Scientist Prize in Life Sciences of Kurukshetra University in 2007.