Dr. Ipsita Roy earned her PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, completed a post-doctoral position at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and conducted an Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship at the University of Bonn (Germany). She has been teaching biotechnology and biochemistry at the postgraduate level at National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, S.A.S. Nagar, since 2005. Her research interests include stabilization of pharmaceutically important and disease-relevant proteins; aptamer technology; downstream processing of proteins.