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{{Short description|Indian doctor (c. 1927 – 2022)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Baidyanath Chakrabarty
| birth_date = {{birth date based on age at death|94|2022|04|15}}
| birth_place = [[Faridpur District|Faridpur]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British Raj]]
| death_date = 15 April 2022 (aged 94)
| death_place = [[Bidhannagar]], [[Kolkata metropolitan area|Kolkata]], India
| occupation = Gynaecologist; reproductive medicine researcher
}}

'''Baidyanath Chakrabarty'''{{Efn|Chakrabarty's last name is alternately spelled as Chakravarty and Chakraborty|name=a}} ({{birth date based on age at death|94|2022|04|15|mos=1}}{{spnd}}15 April 2022) was an Indian doctor and reproductive health specialist who was considered a pioneer of reproductive medicine in the country. He was the founder of the Institute of Reproductive Medicine, in [[Bidhannagar|Salt Lake]], [[Kolkata]], focused on assisted reproductive research. In a career spanning over seven decades, he had performed over 4,000 [[IVF]] procedures.

== Early life ==
Chakrabarty was born in [[Faridpur District|Faridpur]] in modern-day [[Bangladesh]], in what was then the undivided [[Bengal]].<ref name=":0" /> He was the eldest of nine siblings. His father was a [[signalman]] with the railways with a transferable job. Chakrabarty stayed back in [[Chakradharpur]], in present-day [[Jharkhand]], when the family traveled along with his father.<ref name=":3" />

He was a topper in his school in his [[matriculation examination]]s and received a scholarship from politician [[Syama Prasad Mukherjee]] to study at [[Asutosh College]] at the [[University of Calcutta]]. He studied medicine at the [[Bengal Medical College]], graduating as a topper in [[gynaecology]] in 1952. He later traveled to England to complete his post-graduate degree in gynaecology and graduated a [[Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists|Member of Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=16 April 2022 |first=Sumati |last=Yengkhom |title=IVF pioneer Baidyanath Chakravarty dies in Kolkata |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/ivf-pioneer-baidyanath-chakravarty-dies/articleshow/90869765.cms |access-date=16 April 2022 |website=The Times of India |language=en |archive-date=17 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220417042330/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/ivf-pioneer-baidyanath-chakravarty-dies/articleshow/90869765.cms |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":3" /> Having completed his studies in England, he faced financial difficulties in paying for his return trip and ended up taking a hospital job in that country before returning to India.<ref name=":3" />

== Career ==
Chakrabarty started his career as a member of the faculty at [[NRS Medical College]]. During his time here he met and collaborated with [[Subhash Mukhopadhyay (physician)|Subhash Mukherjee]], who delivered Durga, India's first baby by [[in vitro fertilisation]] (IVF). Chakrabarty collaborated with Mukherjee on various topics related to fertility medicine. Chakrabarty continued the duo's research after Mukherjee's suicide in 1981.<ref name=":0" />

He collaborated with other doctors including [[Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar]] in setting up of an IVF laboratory. Chakrabarty set up the [[Institute of Reproductive Medicine]] in [[Bidhannagar|Salt Lake]], a satellite city of modern-day [[Kolkata]], in 1986 after retiring as a professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the NRS Medical College.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last1=Chaudhury |first1=Koel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LJifDwAAQBAJ&dq=baidyanath+chakrabarty&pg=PR5 |title=Endometriosis: Basic Concepts and Current Research Trends |last2=Chakravarty |first2=Baidyanath |date=9 May 2012 |publisher=BoD – Books on Demand |isbn=978-953-51-0524-4 |language=en |access-date=16 April 2022 |archive-date=17 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220417042330/https://books.google.co.in/books?id=LJifDwAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PR5&dq=baidyanath+chakrabarty&hl=en&redir_esc=y |url-status=live }}</ref> The institute focused on [[Assisted reproductive technology|assisted reproductive technologies]] and research. He donated the institute to the [[Indian Council of Medical Research]] (ICMR) in 2019.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last1=Mitra |first1=Prithvijit |date=1 September 2019 |first2=Rema |last2=Nagarajan |title=90-year-old IVF legend donates his institute to ICMR |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/90-year-old-ivf-legend-donates-his-institute-to-icmr/articleshow/70930035.cms |access-date=16 April 2022 |website=The Times of India |language=en |archive-date=18 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211218032335/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/90-year-old-ivf-legend-donates-his-institute-to-icmr/articleshow/70930035.cms |url-status=live }}</ref> As of 2019, the institute treated about 3,000 couples seeking assisted reproductive support annually.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Breaking News! IVF legend Dr Baidyanath Chakraborty donates his institute to ICMR |url=https://www.getbengal.com/details/breaking-news-ivf-legend-dr-baidyanath-chakraborty-donates-his-institute-to-icmr |access-date=16 April 2022 |website=Get Bengal |language=en |archive-date=17 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210617030005/https://www.getbengal.com/details/breaking-news-ivf-legend-dr-baidyanath-chakraborty-donates-his-institute-to-icmr |url-status=live }}</ref> Some of his other contributions included advancing [[embryo transfer]] technology and development of cost-effective [[ovulation induction]] protocols for women after multiple IVF failures.<ref name=":2" /> He also studied the genetic linkages to infertility, role of stress in infertility, and endometrial receptivity in [[endometriosis]] and recurrent miscarriages.<ref name=":2" />

Earlier, in 1998, he was the chair of the ICMR committee that was chartered to draft the "national guidelines for accreditation, supervision, and regulation of assisted reproductive technology clinics" in India.<ref name=":1" /> In a career spanning seven decades, Chakrabarty performed over 4,000 IVF procedures and was considered a pioneer of IVF and artificial insemination research and treatment in the country.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pioneer in IVF research, Dr Baidyanath Chakrabarty, dies at 94 |url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/pioneer-in-ivf-research-dr-baidyanath-chakrabarty-dies-at-94-386610 |access-date=16 April 2022 |website=Tribuneindia News Service |language=en |archive-date=17 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220417042340/https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/pioneer-in-ivf-research-dr-baidyanath-chakrabarty-dies-at-94-386610 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Father of 4000 test tube babies |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/father-of-4000-test-tube-babies/cid/1470914 |access-date=16 April 2022 |website=www.telegraphindia.com |archive-date=17 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220417042336/https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/father-of-4000-test-tube-babies/cid/1470914 |url-status=live }}</ref> He received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019 from the [[West Bengal government]].<ref name=":0" />

== Personal life ==
Chakrabarty was married to his wife Manjushree, also a doctor, whom he met on his return from England. The couple had two children.<ref name=":3" /> He was known to be a fan of Indian cricket, noting in a 2016 interview, "[[Virat Kohli]] and [[Ravichandran Ashwin|Ashwin]] are such good boys!".<ref name=":3" />

Chakrabarty died on 15 April 2022 in [[Bidhannagar|Salt Lake City]] in [[Kolkata]]. He was aged 94. He had earlier been admitted to the Calcutta Heart Clinic after suffering a [[cerebral stroke]] and had also undergone an [[angioplasty]].<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=IVF pioneer Dr Baidyanath Chakrabarty passes away in Kolkata |url=https://www.indiablooms.com/news-details/N/80759/veteran-ivf-specialist-dr-baidyanath-chakrabarty-passes-away-in-kolkata-mamata-banerjee-condoles.html |access-date=16 April 2022 |website=Indiablooms.com |language=en |archive-date=17 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220417042344/https://www.indiablooms.com/news-details/N/80759/veteran-ivf-specialist-dr-baidyanath-chakrabarty-passes-away-in-kolkata-mamata-banerjee-condoles.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Udayavani |title=Pioneer in IVF research, Dr Baidyanath Chakrabarty, dies at age 94 |url=https://www.udayavani.com/english-news/pioneer-in-ivf-research-dr-baidyanath-chakrabarty-dies-at-age-94 |access-date=16 April 2022 |website=Udayavani |language=kn}}</ref>

== Select publications ==
* {{Cite journal |last1=Sharma |first1=Sunita |last2=Bathwal |first2=Shikha |last3=Agarwal |first3=Nupur |last4=Chattopadhyay |first4=Ratna |last5=Saha |first5=Indranil |last6=Chakravarty |first6=Baidyanath |date=1 January 2019 |title=Does presence of adenomyosis affect reproductive outcome in IVF cycles? A retrospective analysis of 973 patients |url=https://www.rbmojournal.com/article/S1472-6483(18)30518-2/abstract |journal=Reproductive BioMedicine Online |language=English |volume=38 |issue=1 |pages=13–21 |doi=10.1016/j.rbmo.2018.09.014 |issn=1472-6483 |pmid=30446308|s2cid=53568847 |url-access=subscription }}
* {{Cite journal |last1=Mitra |first1=Amrita |last2=Chakraborty |first2=Baidyanath |last3=Mukhopadhay |first3=Dyutiman |last4=Pal |first4=Manisha |last5=Mukherjee |first5=Sanjit |last6=Banerjee |first6=Samir |last7=Chaudhuri |first7=Keya |date=1 October 2012 |title=Effect of smoking on semen quality, FSH, testosterone level, and CAG repeat length in androgen receptor gene of infertile men in an Indian city |journal=Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine |volume=58 |issue=5 |pages=255–262 |doi=10.3109/19396368.2012.684195 |issn=1939-6368 |pmid=22578234|s2cid=20084472 |doi-access=free }}
* {{Cite journal |last1=Gupta |first1=Nishi |last2=Sudhakar |first2=Digumarthi V. S. |last3=Gangwar |first3=Pravin Kumar |last4=Sankhwar |first4=Satya Narayan |last5=Gupta |first5=Nalini J. |last6=Chakraborty |first6=Baidyanath |last7=Thangaraj |first7=Kumarasamy |last8=Gupta |first8=Gopal |last9=Rajender |first9=Singh |date=11 September 2017 |title=Mutations in the prostate specific antigen (PSA/KLK3) correlate with male infertility |journal=Scientific Reports |language=en |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=11225 |doi=10.1038/s41598-017-10866-1 |issn=2045-2322 |pmc=5593825 |pmid=28894123|bibcode=2017NatSR...711225G }}
* {{Cite journal |last1=Dixit |first1=Hridesh |last2=Rao |first2=Lakshmi K. |last3=Padmalatha |first3=Venkata V. |last4=Kanakavalli |first4=Murthy |last5=Deenadayal |first5=Mamata |last6=Gupta |first6=Nalini |last7=Chakrabarty |first7=Baidyanath |last8=Singh |first8=Lalji |date=1 May 2006 |title=Missense mutations in the BMP15 gene are associated with ovarian failure |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s00439-006-0150-0 |journal=Human Genetics |language=en |volume=119 |issue=4 |pages=408–415 |doi=10.1007/s00439-006-0150-0 |pmid=16508750 |s2cid=10134900 |issn=1432-1203|url-access=subscription }}
* {{Cite journal |last1=Panda |first1=Bineet |last2=Rao |first2=Lakshmi |last3=Tosh |first3=Durgadatta |last4=Dixit |first4=Hridesh |last5=Padmalatha |first5=Venkata |last6=Kanakavalli |first6=Murthy |last7=Raseswari |first7=Turlapati |last8=Deenadayal |first8=Mamata |last9=Gupta |first9=Nalini |last10=Chakrabarty |first10=Baidyanath |last11=Nallari |first11=Pratibha |date=1 August 2011 |title=Germline study of AR gene of Indian women with ovarian failure |url=https://doi.org/10.3109/09513590.2010.507282 |journal=Gynecological Endocrinology |volume=27 |issue=8 |pages=572–578 |doi=10.3109/09513590.2010.507282 |issn=0951-3590 |pmid=20672904|s2cid=35302256 |url-access=subscription }}
* {{Cite journal |last1=Rajender |first1=S. |last2=Pooja |first2=S. |last3=Gupta |first3=N. J. |last4=Chakrabarty |first4=B. |last5=Singh |first5=L. |last6=Thangaraj |first6=K. |date=1 March 2011 |title=G708E Mutation in the Androgen Receptor Results in Complete Loss of Androgen Function |journal=Journal of Andrology |language=en |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=193–198 |doi=10.2164/jandrol.110.010736 |pmid=20671138 |issn=0196-3635|doi-access=free }}
* {{Cite journal |last1=Rajender |first1=Singh |last2=Gupta |first2=Nalini J. |last3=Chakrabarty |first3=Baidyanath |last4=Singh |first4=Lalji |last5=Thangaraj |first5=Kumarasamy |date=1 March 2009 |title=Ala 586 Asp mutation in androgen receptor disrupts transactivation function without affecting androgen binding |url=https://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(08)04263-5/abstract |journal=Fertility and Sterility |language=English |volume=91 |issue=3 |pages=933.e23–933.e28 |doi=10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.10.041 |pmid=19062009 |issn=0015-0282|doi-access=free }}
* {{Cite journal |last1=Rajender |first1=Singh |last2=Gupta |first2=Nalini J. |last3=Chakrabarty |first3=Baidyanath |last4=Singh |first4=Lalji |last5=Thangaraj |first5=Kumarasamy |date=11 December 2013 |title=L712V mutation in the androgen receptor gene causes complete androgen insensitivity syndrome due to severe loss of androgen function |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039128X13002006 |journal=Steroids |language=en |volume=78 |issue=12 |pages=1288–1292 |doi=10.1016/j.steroids.2013.09.004 |pmid=24055831 |s2cid=205255204 |issn=0039-128X|url-access=subscription }}
* {{Cite journal |last1=Singh |first1=Rajender |last2=Singh |first2=Pooja |last3=Gupta |first3=Nalini J. |last4=Chakrabarty |first4=Baidyanath |last5=Singh |first5=Lalji |last6=Thangaraj |first6=Kumarasamy |date=1 November 2010 |title=C601S mutation in the androgen receptor results in partial loss of androgen function |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960076010002384 |journal=The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |language=en |volume=122 |issue=5 |pages=359–363 |doi=10.1016/j.jsbmb.2010.05.006 |pmid=20493947 |s2cid=23918339 |issn=0960-0760|url-access=subscription }}
* {{Cite journal |last1=Gupta |first1=Nishi |last2=Sudhakar |first2=Digumarthi V. S. |last3=Gangwar |first3=Pravin Kumar |last4=Sankhwar |first4=Satya Narayan |last5=Gupta |first5=Nalini J. |last6=Chakraborty |first6=Baidyanath |last7=Thangaraj |first7=Kumarasamy |last8=Gupta |first8=Gopal |last9=Rajender |first9=Singh |date=11 September 2017 |title=Mutations in the prostate specific antigen (PSA/KLK3) correlate with male infertility |journal=Scientific Reports |language=en |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=11225 |doi=10.1038/s41598-017-10866-1 |issn=2045-2322 |pmc=5593825 |pmid=28894123|bibcode=2017NatSR...711225G }}

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