Debasish Chattopadhyay, Ph.D.

Rank: Associate Professor
Division: Infectious Disease
Campus Address: CBSE-250
Phone: (205) 934-0124
Email: debasish@uab.edu

Departmental Affiliation(s):
Primary: Medicine
Secondary: Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
Secondary: Microbiology
Secondary: Physiology & Biophysics

Dr. Debasish Chattopadhyay received his BS in Chemistry and MS in Biochemistry from Calcutta University, India. He obtained Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Jadavpur University, India in 1989. He conducted his postdoctoral research at the Upjohn Company in Michigan. This work was part of an NIH funded collaborative effort involving several academic institutions and pharmaceutical industries for the discovery of potent antiretroviral drugs. Dr. Chattopadhyay’s work focussed on the structure-function analysis of target enzymes its application in drug development. Dr. Chattopadhyay joined the University of Alabama in 1994 and was recruited as an Assistant Professor in the School of Medicine in 1998. Dr. Chattopadhyay was promoted to the Associate Professor rank in 2007.