Roop Mallik is an Indian biophysicist who works on nanoscale molecular motor proteins that transport material such as viruses, mitochondria, endosomes etc.
The motors, such as kinesin and dynein generate forces of pico-newton order to carry our various cellular processes namely cell division, vesicular transport, endocytosis, molecular tethering etc.
Mallik was born in 1970 in Allahabad, situated in the Northern India state of Uttar Pradesh.
[4][5] After the completion of his PhD with over 20 international articles,[6] Mallik joined G. Krishnamoorthy (TIFR) and Jayant Udgaonkar's labs (NCBS) for short stint as post doctoral fellow.
In 2002, he joined the lab of Steven Gross at Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine.