Dr. Raja Banerjee, an Organic Chemist, pursued research in Structural Biology in the Department of Biophysics, Bose Institute during his PhD dissertation, which includes design, synthesis and conformational analysis of short peptides using 2D-NMR as the major tool. Prime interest was the structure-stability aspects of short helices (especially 3₁₀–helices); design of water-soluble, thermally stable short model-host helical peptides, applied as scaffolds for helical therapeutic peptidomimetics. In postdoctoral research worked on designing short peptides to study helix to helix (3₁₀) transition to understand the ‘protein folding’ in a novel perspective. Currently he is pursuing active research in collaboration on conformational analysis of short designed peptide motifs and metal binding small molecule, used for therapeutic purpose. Research interest is designing biomimic – bioactive molecules involving construction of minimalist version of sequences with predefined structure and study membrane peptides.