Deepta Bhattacharya is a Professor in the Departments of Immunobiology and Surgery at the University of Arizona, where his lab continues to study both stem cells and antibody responses to infections and vaccines. Before moving to University of Arizona, he started his independent laboratory at Washington University School of Medicine, first as an Assistant Professor and then as a tenured Associate Professor. His research lab merges the fields of stem cell biology and immunology to understand the basic biology of lymphocyte development, and to develop creative translational strategies to combat infectious disease.

Bhattacharya received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, studying the role of the NF-kB transcription factor in survival and B cell class switching. For his postdoctoral fellowship, he trained at Stanford University, studying the cell biology of hematopoietic stem cells and their differentiated progeny.