Rate My Professor Ashutosh Kumar

Professor Ashutosh Kumar is a Professor in the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He completed his B.Sc. in Chemistry (Honours) with Physics and Mathematics from the Faculty of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (1996–1999), M.Sc. in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (1999–2001), and Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Department of Chemical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (2001–2007). He conducted post-doctoral research in the Solid-state NMR Group, Department of NMR Based Structural Biology, at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany (2007–2010).

Kumar joined IIT Bombay as Assistant Professor in 2011, advanced to Associate Professor in 2016, and was promoted to Professor in 2021. His research specializations encompass structural biology, biophysics, solid and liquid-state NMR spectroscopy, and investigations into protein-protein, protein-lipid, and protein-drug interactions. He has been awarded the Ramalingaswami Fellowship from the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India (2011–2015), Marie-Curie Fellowship from the European Union under the IIF FP7 framework (2008–2010), Max-Planck-Fellowship (2007–2008), and received an Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellowship offer for post-doctoral research (not availed). Key publications include 'Disordered regions tune order in chromatin organization and function' (Biophysical Chemistry, 2022), 'Mapping of Methyl Epitopes of a Peptide-Drug with Its Receptor by 2D STDD-Methyl TROSY NMR Spectroscopy' (ChemBioChem, 2022), 'Amrita Bhattacharya et al., Disorder in the Human Skp1 Structure is the Key to its Adaptability to Bind Many Different Proteins in the SCF Complex Assembly' (Journal of Molecular Biology, 2022), 'Nutan Agadi et al., Distinct mode of membrane interaction and disintegration by diverse class of antimicrobial peptides' (Biochimica et Biophysica Acta – Biomembranes, 2022), 'α-Synuclein Aggregation Nucleates through Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation' (Nature Chemistry, 2020), and 'Myricetin protects pancreatic β-cells from human islet amyloid polypeptide (hIAPP) induced cytotoxicity and restores islet function' (Biology of Chemistry, 2020).