Obaid Siddiqi

Obaid Siddiqi FRS (January 7, 1932 – July 26, 2013) was a National Research Professor at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) National Center for Biological Sciences. His work includes research on the genetics and neurobiology of Drosophila.

He was born in 1932 in Uttar Pradesh and was educated at Aligarh Muslim University and the University of Glasgow. He carried out post doctoral research at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, and the MRC Laboratory in Cambridge. At the invitation of Homi Bhabha, he set up the Molecular Biology Unit at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bombay in 1962. Thirty years later, he became the founding director of the TIFR National Center for Biological Sciences in Bangalore, where he continued to do research until his last days.