Bose Institute (Basu Bigyan Mandir) is a public research institute of India and also one of its oldest.[1] The Institute was established in 1917 by Acharya Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, the father of modern scientific research in the Indian subcontinent. The Institute pioneered the concept of interdisciplinary research in Asia and India in sync with global trends. Current concentration of research is in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Plant biology, Microbiology, Molecular medicine, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Bioinformatics and Environmental science. The Institute pioneered the concept of interdisciplinary research in Asia and India in sync with global trends.