Satyajit Mayor
Leverhulme International Professor, Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology, Warwick University, UK
Satyajit (Jitu) Mayor is a cell biologist. He is currently the Leverhulme International Professor at Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology, University of Warwick, UK and Distinguished Professor (on lien) at National Centre for Biological Science (NCBS), Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, India.
Mayor studied Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India and obtained his Ph.D. in the Life Sciences from The Rockefeller University, New York, USA studying the biosynthesis of GPI-anchors in Trypanosomes. In his laboratory at NCBS he studies the fine structure, function and dynamics of the membrane of living cells using methods derived from biology, chemistry, engineering, and physics.
He has served as the Director of the NCBS, the Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine and founding Chairperson of the Bangalore Life Science Cluster. He is a member of the US National Academy of Science, The World Academy of Science (TWAS), Trieste, Italy, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi and the National Academy of Science, Bangalore India, and Associate Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).