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Name: Surajit Dhara

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Position:

  • DBT-NIBMG Fellow , April 2010 till date: National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (NIBMG) , Kalyani, West Bengal, India.
  • Adjunct Faculty, April 2010 till date: Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine , Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.

Highest Educational Qualification: Ph.D.

Past Appointments:

  • Faculty, January 2010 to March 2010: Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
  • Post doctoral fellow , April 2003 to 2009, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Post doctoral fellow , August 2002 to April 2003, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
  • Senior Demonstrator , September 2000 to August 2002. All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India.
  • Research fellow and graduate student , April 1995 to August 2000, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India.
  • Research fellow , April 1994 to March 1995, Calcutta University, Kolkata, India.

 

Awards & Honours:

  • DBT-NIBMG Fellowship award, 2010
  • Best Young Scientist Award by ISSRF (Indian Society for the Study of Reproduction and Fertility), India, 1996.
  • Junior Research Fellowship award by University Grants Commission, Govt. of India, 1993.

 

Fellowships & Memberships of Professional Societies:

•  Associate member of AACR (American Association for Cancer Research)

•  Life member of the ISSRF (Indian Society for the Study of Reproduction and Fertility)

•  Life member of the APPI (Association of Physiologists and Pharmacologists of India)

 

Orations & Special Lectures:

  • Sydney Kimmel Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA. May 2007
  • Russell Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA. June 2007
  • Novartis Institute of Biomedical research (NIBR), Boston, USA, in June 2008
  • Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), New Delhi, India in December 2008
  • National Institute of Immunology (NII), New Delhi, India, in December 2008
  • Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad, India, December 2008
  • Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, India, in December, 2008
  • Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB), Kolkata, India, in December 2008.
  • Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, India, in December 2008
  • Calcutta Consortium for Human Genetics lecture, Kolkata University, Kolkata, India. July 2010

 

Research Interests: Cancer Genomics

Current Projects:

  • Genome wide copy number variations (CNVs) in tumor stromal fibroblast and neoplastic epithelial cells of Head and Neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC)
  • Understanding the genetic basis of chemoresistance in gingivobuccal squamous cell carcinoma (GSCC)

Past Major Projects:

  • Hedgehog signaling pathway as a therapeutic target in metastatic pancreatic cancer
  • Prostate Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA) as an imaging target in prostate cancer

 

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