Ranjan Sen

Ranjan Sen (born 1967) is an Indian microbiologist, biophysicist and a senior scientist as well as the head of the Laboratory of Transcription at the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics.

Ranjan Sen, born in 1967[1] in the Indian state of West Bengal, earned the post-graduate degree of MSc in molecular biology and biophysics in 1991 from the University of Calcutta and did his doctoral studies on the conformational changes of E.coli RNA polymerase during transcription initiation under the guidance of Dipak Dasgupta at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics to secure a PhD in 1996.

On his return to India in 2002, he joined the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD) as a scientist.

[2] While in the US, he furthered his work by focusing on transcription antitermination mechanisms by PUT RNA.

At CDFD, the team led by him is involved in the studies of antitermination in prokaryotes, combining physical, chemical, biological and genetic techniques.