of India 2022 Sun Pharma Science Foundation Research Award - Basic Science 2022 Kaustuv Sanyal (born 1969) is an Indian molecular biologist, mycologist and Director of Bose Institute in Kolkata.

He is a professor at the Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR).

[2] An alumnus of Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya and Madurai Kamaraj University from where he earned a BSc in agriculture and MSc in biotechnology respectively, Sanyal did his doctoral studies at Bose Institute to secure a PhD in Yeast genetics.

[3] He moved to the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA[4] to work in the laboratory of John Carbon on the discovery of centromeres in Candida albicans.

He is a member of the Faculty of 1000 in the disciplines of Microbial Evolution and Genomics and has delivered invited speeches which include the Gordon Research Conference,[7] EMBO conferences on comparative genomics[8] and kinetochores.