Bose Institute

Bose Institute (Basu Bigyan Mandir)

বোস‌ ইনস্টিটিউট (বসু বিজ্ঞান মন্দির)

Established	c. 1917; 108 years ago (1917)
Research type	Interdisciplinary research
Field of research	Functional Plant Biology Plant genetic resources Structural Studies and Biophysical Problems Computational biology Molecular medicine Applied Microbiology Systems and Synthetic Biology Physical science Environmental science Complex Systems
Director	Kaustuv Sanyal
Location	Kolkata, West Bengal, India 22°34′47″N 88°14′30″E / 22.579689°N 88.2417152°E / 22.579689; 88.2417152
Campus	EN Block, Sector V, Bidhannagar, Kolkata, West Bengal 700091
Founder	Jagadish Chandra Bose
Operating agency	Department of Science and Technology (India)
Website	www.jcbose.ac.in

Bose Institute (or Basu Bigyan Mandir) is a premier public research institute of India and also one of its oldest.^[1] The Bose Institute Kolkata is a Tier 1 Natural Science Research Institute in India, sharing the podium with India's top natural science research institutes viz., Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, IISc Bengaluru, NCBS Bengaluru and IIT Bombay. The institute was established in 1917 by Acharya Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, the father of modern scientific research in the Indian subcontinent. Bose was its director for the first twenty years till his demise. Debendra Mohan Bose, who succeeded the Nobel laureate Sir CV Raman as Palit Professor of Physics at the University of Calcutta, was the director of Bose Institute for the next thirty years. The institute pioneered the concept of interdisciplinary research in Asia and India in sync with global trends.