Enzyme Engineering for Biomedical and Environmental Application

Shapla Bhattacharya was born in 1997 in India. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology (2019) and her Master’s degree in Biotechnology (2021), graduating as a Gold Medalist, from Banasthali Vidyapith, India. Since November 2021, she worked at the Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, which became part of the National Institute of Research and Innovation (NIRI), Latvia, following its establishment on May 31, 2026. Her research has contributed to the engineering of plastic-degrading enzymes and the development of improved FPOX variants for diabetes diagnostics. She has authored six peer-reviewed publications, contributed to two patents, and received Outstanding Poster Awards at the BioDrug Conference, EMBO workshops, and the FEBS conference. Her research interests include protein engineering, structural biology, protein biophysics, enzyme technology, and the development of sustainable and biomedical biotechnological solutions.