Ipsita Roy
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Ipsita Roy | |
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| Alma mater | University of Cambridge University of Delhi |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Minnesota Indian Institutes of Technology |
| Thesis | Studies on methylmalonyl-CoA mutase. (1992) |
Ipsita Roy is a British-Indian materials scientist who is a professor at the University of Sheffield. Her research considers natural polymers of bacterial origin for medical applications. She was elected to the New York Academy of Sciences in 1997 and serves as the Editor of the Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology.
Roy was an undergraduate student Delhi University.[1] She was awarded a Inlaks Scholarship and the Overseas Research Students Award to complete her doctoral research at the University of Cambridge.[1][2] Whilst at Cambridge, she was awarded the Churchill College Fellowship and the University of Cambridge Philosophical Society Fellowship. Roy was a postdoctoral student at the University of Minnesota, where she worked in fatty acid synthesis.[1]
