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| name = Amar Nath Bhaduri<br />
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1935|11|12}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Shyambazar]], [[West Bengal]], India<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2003|6|5|1935|11|12}}<br />
| death_place = [[Kolkata]], West Bengal, India<br />
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| nationality = [[Indian nationality|Indian]]<br />
| fields = {{ublist | [[Enzymology]] | [[Parasitology]] }}<br />
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[Jadavpur University]] | [[Indian Institute of Chemical Biology]] }}<br />
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[Scottish Church Collegiate School]] | [[Presidency College, Calcutta|Presidency College]] | [[Rajabazar Science College]] | [[University of Michigan, Ann Arbor]] | [[Harvard Medical School]] }}<br />
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| known_for = Studies on [[UDP-glucose 4-epimerase]]<br />
| awards = {{ublist | 1979&nbsp;[[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] | 1995&nbsp;[[Indian National Science Academy|INSA]] Jagadis Chandra Bose Medal }}<br />
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'''Amar Nath Bhaduri''' (1935–2003) was an Indian molecular [[Enzymology|enzymologist]] and [[Chemical biology|chemical biologist]], known for his studies on [[UDP-glucose 4-epimerase]], a homodimeric epimerase found in cells and his work on Leishmania donovani, the protozoal pathogen for Kala-azar.<ref name="Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners">{{cite web | url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=1999 | accessdate=19 September 2016 | pages=28 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043957/http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | archive-date=4 March 2016 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}</ref> He was the director of the [[Indian Institute of Chemical Biology]] (IICB), Kolkata and an elected fellow of the [[Indian National Science Academy]] and the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]].<ref name="Deceased Fellow - A. N. Bhaduri">{{Cite web |url=http://www.insaindia.res.in/detail/N86-0925 |title=Deceased Fellow - A. N. Bhaduri |date=2016 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=24 September 2016}}</ref> The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1978, for his contributions to biological sciences.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx | title=View Bhatnagar Awardees | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | accessdate=19 September 2016}}</ref><br />
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== Biography ==<br />
Amar Nath Bhaduri, born on 12 November 1935 at [[Shyambazar]], in northern [[Kolkata]] in the Indian state of [[West Bengal]], did his schooling at the [[Scottish Church Collegiate School]] before continuing his college studies at [[Presidency College, Calcutta|Presidency College]] and the [[Rajabazar Science College|University College of Science, Technology & Agriculture]] of [[Calcutta University]].<ref name="Amar Nath Bhaduri - Obituary">{{cite journal | url=http://www.iisc.ernet.in/currsci/sep102003/677.pdf | title=Amar Nath Bhaduri - Obituary | author=Samir Bhattacharya | journal=Current Science | date=10 September 2003 | volume=85 | issue=5}}</ref> Moving to the US, he secured the degree of Doctor of Science from [[University of Michigan, Ann Arbor]] in 1964<ref>{{cite book|title=Proceedings of the Board of Regents|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lzcXAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA218|year=1963|publisher=The University|pages=218–}}</ref> and after completing his post-doctoral studies at [[Harvard Medical School]], returned to India in 1966 to join the [[Jadavpur University]] as a member of faculty of the department of pharmacy. He served the institution till his move to the [[Indian Institute of Chemical Biology]] (IICB) in 1985 and superannuated as the director of the institute; in between, he had a short stint at [[Roche Institute of Molecular Biology]] during 1975–76.<ref name="Deceased Fellow - A. N. Bhaduri" /> Post his retirement, he continued his association with IICB as an emeritus scientist. He was also serving as an honorary professor at Calcutta and Jadvapur universities when he died on 5 June 2003 at Kolkata, succumbing to age-related illnesses, at the age of 67, survived by his wife, son and daughter.<ref name="Amar Nath Bhaduri - Obituary" /> The Indian National Science Academy has documented his life in their ''Biographical Memoirs''.<ref name="Biographical Memoirs">{{cite web | url=http://insaindia.res.in/bm.php?letter=A | title=Biographical Memoirs | publisher=INSA | date=2016 | accessdate=25 September 2016}}</ref><br />
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== Legacy ==<br />
At the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Bhaduri was associated with [[Paul Srere]] and worked on [[citrate]] metabolism and [[fatty acid biosynthesis]].<ref name="Amar Nath Bhaduri - Obituary" /> It was during his post-doctoral studies at Harvard Medical School, he elucidated the effect of [[uridine]] [[nucleotides]] on an [[epimerase]]. Later, he continued his researches at Jadavpur University and discovered methodologies for the purification of [[Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase]] and for the regulation of [[UDP-glucose 4-epimerase]] from S. fragilis. His researches revealed that the enzyme was ''[[allosterically]] activated by metabolically-related [[sugar phosphates]]'' and its allosteric kinetics is uni-directional, a property helpful in the regulation of [[galactose metabolism]]. He also proposed a protocol for the desensitization of the enzyme by heat, thereby generating hyperbolic kinetics and demonstrated that the addition and dissociation of [[Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide]] activated or de-activated the enzyme. His work was reported to have widened the understanding about the active sites of the enzyme<ref name="Amar Nath Bhaduri - Obituary" /> as well as of the molecular mechanisms of [[Allosteric regulation|allostericity]].<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=331 | title=Brief Profile of the Awardee | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | accessdate=19 September 2016}}</ref> He studied the host-parasite interaction of [[Leishmania donovani]], a protozoal pathogen affecting humans, and his work attempted to explain the biomodulatory role for [[Ca2+]] in the life cycle of the parasite.<ref name="Deceased Fellow - A. N. Bhaduri" /> His researches have been published by way of several articles{{cn|date=September 2020}} and he mentored many scholars in their doctoral researches.<ref name="Uma Siddhanta">{{cite web | url=http://www.sxccal.edu/SXC-Faculty/fullProfile/UmaSiddhanta.pdf | title=Uma Siddhanta | publisher=St. Xavier's College, Kolkata | date=2016 | accessdate=25 September 2016}}</ref><br />
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Bhaduri, who sat in the editorial boards of journals such as the [[Journal of Biosciences]] from 1986 to 1992 and the ''Indian Journal of Biochemistry and Biophysics'' from 1983 to 1991, was a member of the national organizing committee of the [[International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology]] (IUBMB) Congress held in New Delhi in 1994.<ref name="IUBMB General Assembly, New Delhi">{{cite web | url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/9510134482/iubmb-general-assembly-new-delhi | title=IUBMB General Assembly, New Delhi | publisher=South African Journal of Science | date=May 1995 | accessdate=25 September 2016}}{{dead link|date=November 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> He served as the project director for the UNDP project on ''Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of Parasites'' and presided the biochemistry and biophysics section of the [[Indian Science Congress]] held in [[Kochi]] in 1990.<ref name="Deceased Fellow - A. N. Bhaduri" /> He was a president of the Institute of Science, Education and Culture (ISEC), Kolkata.<ref name="Former presidents">{{cite web | url=http://iseckolkata.com/members.html | title=Former presidents | publisher=Institute of Science, Education and Culture | date=2016 | accessdate=25 September 2016}}</ref><br />
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== Awards and honors ==<br />
Bhaduri delivered several award orations including the B. C. Guha Memorial Lecture of the University of Calcutta in 1989.<ref name="Deceased Fellow - A. N. Bhaduri" /> An elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (1986) and the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] (1989),<ref name="Fellow profile - A. N. Bhaduri">{{cite web | url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Bhaduri,_Dr_Amar_Nath | title=Fellow profile - A. N. Bhaduri | publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences | date=2016 | accessdate=25 September 2016}}</ref> he was awarded the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], one of the highest Indian science awards, by the [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] in 1978.<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee" /> Indian National Science Academy honored him again with Jagadis Chandra Bose Medal in 1995.<ref name="Jagadis Chandra Bose Medal">{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/recipients.php#34 |title=Jagadis Chandra Bose Medal |date=2017 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy}}</ref> He has received DSc (Honaris Causa) from [[Burdwan University]] in 1995 and his name has been included in the list of 200 illustrious alumni of Presidency University during their Bicentenary celebration.{{citation needed|date=May 2017}}<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[UDP-glucose 4-epimerase]]<br />
* [[Indian Institute of Chemical Biology]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{cite web | url=http://anbhaduri.org/index.php?action=about&sa=background | title=anbhadhuri.com | publisher=Rina Bhaduri | work=Official website | date=2016 | accessdate=25 September 2016}}<br />
* {{cite web | url=http://www.presiuniv.ac.in/web/chemistry.php | title=About The Department | publisher=Presidency University | date=2016 | accessdate=25 September 2016}}<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
* {{cite journal | title=Amat Nath Bhaduri (11 November 1935 – 6 June 2003) | author=Indian National Science Academy | journal=Biog. Mem. Fell. | year=2009 | volume=35 | pages=101–109}}<br />
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