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{{Infobox scientist<br />
| name = Jayant B. Udgaonkar<br />
| image = Prof. Jayant B. Udgaonkar.jpg<br />
| native_name = {{Transliteration|mr|Jayanta Udgāṁvakara}}<br />
| native_name_lang = mr<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1960|03|22}}<br />
| birth_place = Maharashtra<br />
| education = [[IIT Madras]] (MSc)<br />
[[Cornell University]] (PhD)<br />
| alma_mater = [[St. Xavier's College, Mumbai]] (BSc)<br />
| organization = [[National Centre for Biological Sciences]], [[Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune|IISER Pune]]<br />
| known_for = [[Protein-folding]]<br />
| spouse = <br />
| website = {{URL|https://sites.google.com/acads.iiserpune.ac.in/prof-udgaonkar-lab}}<br />
}}<br />
'''Jayant Bhalchandra Udgaonkar''' ({{Indic Transl|mr|Jayanta Udgāṁvakara|dʒəjənt̪ᵊ tʃən̪d̪ɾə ud̪əɡaʊ̃kəɾᵊ}}) is a molecular biologist studying the processes by which a random chain of amino acids stabilises into a functional structure during or after translation.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jayant B. Udgaonkar - IISER Pune |url=https://www.iiserpune.ac.in/research/department/biology/people/faculty/regular-faculty/jayant-b-udgaonkar/348}}</ref><ref name=felicitation>{{cite web|title=Felicitation Event Honouring Prof. Jayant B. Udgaonkar at IISER Pune |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FytNVG5cvto}}</ref><br />
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== Early life and education ==<br />
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Born on 22 March 1960 to [[Bhalchandra Udgaonkar]], a theoretical physicist, and Suhasini Udgaonkar, a renowned historian, Jayant Udgaonkar studied Chemistry at [[St. Xavier's College, Mumbai]] (BSc, 1979) and [[IIT Madras]] (MSc, 1981), and Biochemistry at [[Cornell University]].<ref name="felicitation" /><ref>{{cite book |last1=Phondke |first1=Bal |url=http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/data/pdf/bmu/udgaonkar-confe.pdf |title=B.M. Udgaonkar: Eminent Scientist and Educationist |last2=Sheth |first2=Parul R. |last3=Naik-Satam |first3=Suhas |last4=Deshpande |first4=A.P. |date=2007 |publisher=National Center for Science Communication; Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Communication |location=Mumbai}}</ref><ref name="Profile on NCBS">{{cite web |date=2016 |title=Profile on NCBS |url=https://www.ncbs.res.in/sites/default/files/ju_cvbrief_jan16.pdf |access-date=15 October 2016 |publisher=National Centre for Biological Sciences}}</ref><br />
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== Protein folding ==<br />
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While studying the kinetics of [[acetylcholine receptor]]s in response to the binding of [[ACh]] at [[Stanford University]], he was struck by the structural precision of protein molecules that enabled them to perform highly specialized tasks with extreme precision. Consequently, he focused his attention on the processes that make these structures possible, and what may go wrong in these highly accurate processes. In one of his earliest studies, he found that a certain ''[[hydrophobic collapse]]'' is the first stage in a typical protein folding process. His current work focuses on the formation of [[amyloid]]s.<ref name="Jayant Udgaonkar on Google Scholar">{{cite web |date=2016 |title=Jayant Udgaonkar on Google Scholar |url=https://scholar.google.ae/citations?user=UKyLWOQAAAAJ&hl=en |access-date=16 October 2016 |work=Author profile |publisher=Google Scholar}}</ref><ref name="Jayant Udgaonkar on ResearchGate">{{cite web |date=2016 |title=Jayant Udgaonkar on ResearchGate |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jayant_Udgaonkar |access-date=16 October 2016 |work=Author profile}}</ref><br />
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== Awards and honors ==<br />
* Vigyan Shri Award under [[Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar]] scheme (2024).<ref>{{cite web |title=Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar (RVP) - 2024 : Final List of Awardees |url=https://awards.gov.in/Home/GoToIndex?filename=Award%2FCommunication%2F202488013634H24ZU2.pdf|website=awards.gov.in |publisher=CASU, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |access-date=15 August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar: Chandrayaan-3 team and 32 others selected for first ever edition |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/science/rashtriya-vigyan-puraskar-chandrayaan-3-team-and-32-others-selected-for-first-ever-edition-here-is-full-list/articleshow/112349033.cms?from=mdr |newspaper=The Economic Times | date=7 August 2024 |access-date=15 August 2024}}</ref><br />
* Udgaonkar stood first in the BSc chemistry examinations of the [[University of Mumbai]] in 1979.<ref name="Profile on NCBS" /><br />
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== Selected bibliography ==<br />
* {{cite journal |title=Early folding intermediate of ribonuclease A. |author=Jayant B Udgaonkar, Robert L Baldwin |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |date=November 1990 |volume=87 |issue=21 |pages=8197–8201 |doi=10.1073/pnas.87.21.8197 |pmc=54922 |pmid=2236032 |bibcode=1990PNAS...87.8197U |doi-access=free}}<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{cite web | url=http://academictree.org/chemistry/peopleinfo.php?pid=61106 | title=Jayant Udgaonkar, Ph.D. on Chemistry Tree | publisher=Chemistry Tree | work=Scientist profile | date=2016 | access-date=16 October 2016}}<br />
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