Dr. Rajdeep Chowdhury
Assistant Professor
Biological Sciences
Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences
India
Biography
Dr. Chowdhury earned his Bachelors and Masters degrees from Calcutta University. In 2003 he joined Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Molecular & Human Genetics Department, Kolkata for his PhD (CSIR-NET). He made significant contributions in the field of Cancer Biology and Toxicology with special emphasis on arsenic-induced carcinogenesis and its remediation during his PhD. He was awarded DBT Post Doctoral Research Fellowship in 2008. In 2009, he joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, Department of Bioengineering, as a post doctoral researcher. At Wogan lab, MIT he studied the myriad set of genetic events following Nitric Oxide (NO) exposure; his project extended from understanding the effects of NO-induced post translational modifications to its cancer promoting effect and also its role in cell death mechanisms like, autophagy. In Oct 2012 he joined BITS-Pilani as an Assistant Professor in Dept of Bio-Sciences.
Research Interest
Chemical Biology, Molecular & Human Genetics
Publications
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Fageria L, Pareek V, Dilip RV, Bhargava A, Pasha SS, Laskar IR, Saini H, Dash S, Chowdhury R, Panwar J. Biosynthesized Protein-Capped Silver Nanoparticles Induce ROS-Dependent Proapoptotic Signals and Prosurvival Autophagy in Cancer Cells. ACS Omega. 2017 Apr 1;2(4):1489-504.
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Agarwal DS, Singh RP, Lohitesh K, Jha PN, Chowdhury R, Sakhuja R. Synthesis and evaluation of bile acid amides of $ $\alpha $ $ α-cyanostilbenes as anticancer agents. Molecular diversity. 2017 Dec 13:1-7.
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Sengupta P, Raman S, Chowdhury R, Lohitesh K, Saini H, Mukherjee S, Paul A. Evaluation of apoptosis and autophagy inducing potential of Berberis aristata, Azadirachta indica and their synergistic combinations in parental and resistant human osteosarcoma cells. Frontiers in Oncology. 2017;7:296.
