Bibudhendra Sarkar

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Bibudhendra Sarkar Recipient “Order of Canada”
Born	(1935-08-02) August 2, 1935 (age 89)
Nationality	Canadian
Citizenship	Canada
Alma mater	Calcutta University Banaras Hindu University University of Southern California
Known for	Inventor of Menkes disease treatment by copper-histidine
Spouse	Dipti Dutt (d. 1985)
Children	2
Scientific career
Fields	Biochemistry Structural Biology Genetic Diseases Toxic Metals in Water
Institutions	Hospital For Sick Children and University of Toronto
Thesis	Studies on the transport, metabolism and chemistry of iron-sugar chelates (1964)
Doctoral advisor	Paul Saltman

Bibudhendra (Amu) Sarkar CM (born August 2, 1935) is a Canadian biochemist best known for his research on copper-histidine in human blood, leading to the first treatments for Menkes disease. He served as head of the Division of Biochemistry Research at the Sick Kids Research Institute in Toronto from 1990-2002, where he established the Department of Structural Biology Research in 1990.^[1]