Debanu has over 20 years of experience in high-throughput protein X-ray crystallography, structure-and fragment-based drug discovery and structural biology. His expertise includes structure-function analysis of a broad range of proteins and drug targets (kinases, proteases, antibody-antigen complexes, nuclear receptors, ubiquitin ligases, methylases, polymerases, microbiome enzymes, membrane proteins, transcription factors).

Prior to Accelero Biostructures, he served as Staff Scientist in the Structural Genomics Division at SSRL (Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource) at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park. There he determined crystal structures of several hundred novel proteins as part of the JCSG and established multiple productive partnerships with other renowned research groups for applying the results. He received his postdoctoral training at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California Berkeley on structural genomics and membrane protein crystallography with Sung-Hou Kim, a pioneer of structural genomics and founder of the drug discovery company Plexxikon.

As an industry expert, Debanu also consults with scientific and technology innovators. He holds an Integrated MS in Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and received his Ph.D. from Rutgers, NJ, training with Millie Georgiadis, a former student of Douglas Rees and Wayne Hendrickson. He has also taken professional development courses in business and law in the Continuing Studies Program at Stanford University.