Dipayan Sarkar passed Master of Science from the University of Calcutta in 2015 and has a specialization in Organic Chemistry. He has two years of proficiency in Medicinal Chemistry working as a Research Chemist at the R & D lab in Curadev Pharma Pvt. Ltd. Noida, Uttar -Pradesh, India. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology as a DST-INSPIRE senior research fellow under the supervision of Dr. Arindam Talukdar. His research area includes target-based drug design and development. Recently, he has been working on a novel target regarding Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) and developing a new class of inhibitors of the Top1 enzyme.