Kalyanasundara Bhaskaran obtained his PhD from University of London in 1956. He specialized in Microbiology and Bacterial Genetics. He studied fertility in Vibrio Cholerae which helped in chromosomal mapping and for evaluating antibacterial or antitoxic immune mechanism in experimental Cholera. He was a Professor of Microbiology at All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, Kolkata. He was Leverhulme Visiting Fellow at University of Adelaide. Professor Bhaskaran received YS Narayana Rao Oration Award of the ICMR in 1972. He was a Member of the WHO Advisory Panel on Bacterial Diseases.

Prafulla Kumar Bose obtained his DSc from University of Kolkata in 1927. His research interest was chemistry of natural products, like diterpenes, titerpenes, coumarins, and alkaloids. He investigated the problem of chemonastic substances in Mimosa Pudica Linn. He studied the biochemical and physical and antibiotic properties of some natural products, besides structural work on plant constituents. He was the joint Director, Bose Institute; Director, Indian Institute of Natural Resins & Gums (Formerly Indian Lac Research Institute), Ranchi. Dr. Bose was the recipient of the HK Sen Memorial Medal in 1957.