Ph.D. (Biophysical Chemistry), IIT, Delhi (1986)
M.Sc. (Physical Chemistry), University of Jammu (1980)
B.Sc. (Biology and Chemistry), University of Jammu (1978)
- Aggregation and Amyloid formation in neurodegenerative and other diseases. Discovery of natural products as potential inhibitors and modulators of aggregation-related diseases. Intrinsically disordered proteins and protein homeostasis
- Bimolecular Structure and Interactions: Role of water and weak interactions
- Use of Chemical Chaperones in controlling protein misfolding and amyloid formation
- Structural and functional stabilization of proteins and enzymes by stress-osmolytes and technology development for stabilizing therapeutic proteins
2004- : Professor, School of Biotechnology, JNU, New Delhi.
1998-2004: Associate Professor, Special Centre for Biotechnology, JNU, New Delhi.
2000-2001: Visiting Scientist, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell
University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
1990-1998: Assistant Professor, Special Centre for Biotechnology, JNU, New Delhi.
1989-1990: Lecturer, Department of Biochemistry, University of Delhi, New Delhi.
1986-1989: Postdoctoral Associate, Graduate Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA.
1985-1986: Lecturer in Chemistry, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala.
Dean, School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2009-2011)
Director of Admissions, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2011-2013)
Programme Coordinator, Inter-School project in the area of “Chemical and Synthetic Biology” (DBT-BUILDER) involving five Science Schools of JNU (2012-17)
Secretary, Indian Biophysical Society (2011-2015)
- Merit Certificate for I rank in College/University in Pre-University Course,
- Merit Certificate for I rank in College B.Sc.
- Merit Certificate for I rank in M.Sc. Chemistry
- National Merit Scholarship for postgraduate studies
- Awarded Junior and Senior research fellowships of IIT, Delhi.
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowship of National Institutes of Health (USA).
- Young Investigator Travel Award of 'The Protein Society' to participate in their Second Symposium in San Diego, USA, 1988.
- Biotechnology Overseas Associateship Award, Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India, 2000-2001.
- Comparative analysis of the conformation, aggregation, interaction, and fibril morphologies of human α, β, and γ synuclein proteins, M. K. Jain, P. Singh, S. Roy, and R. Bhat, Biochemistry, 57(26), 3830–3848 (2018).
- Resveratrol interferes with an early step in the fibrillation pathway of human lysozyme and modulates it towards less-toxic, off-pathway aggregates, F. K. Zaidi and R. Bhat, ChemBiochem, 19, 159-170 (2018).
- Modulation of human α-synuclein aggregation by a combined effect of calcium and dopamine, M. Jain and R. Bhat, Neurobiology of Disease, 63, 115-128 (2014).
- Efficient refolding of aggregation prone citrate synthase by polyol osmolytes: How well are folding and stability aspects coupled? R. Mishra, R. Seckler, and R. Bhat J. Biol. Chem., 280, 15553-15560 (2005).
- Why is trehalose an exceptional protein stabilzer?: An analysis of the thermal stability of proteins in the presence of the compatible osmolytetrehalose, J. K. Kaushik and R. Bhat, J. Biol. Chem., 278, 26458-26475 (2003).
