Prof. Dr. Dwaipayan Sikdar
Dr. Dwaipayan Sikdar is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh, where he has been a faculty member since 2001. He earned his B.Sc. (Honors) in 1987 and M.Sc. in 1988 in Biochemistry from the University of Dhaka, followed by a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Japan, in 1998 under the Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship. Prior to his university faculty tenure, he served as a Scientific Officer at the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (1993–1999) and as a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (1999–2001). Beyond his teaching and research, he has held significant academic leadership roles, including Department Chairman (2005–2008) and Head of the Self-Assessment Committee (2015–2018), and serves on the editorial board of Food Research. His primary research focuses on evaluating the pharmacological and health-promoting properties of indigenous fruits and vegetables using in vitro assays and in vivo C. elegans models, alongside the characterization and industrial applications of insect gut digestive enzymes.
