Bhudev Chandra Das
Biomedical Sciences
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Bhudev Chandra Das obtained his BSc (Hons) and BEd (Sc) from Regional Colleges of Education (now Regional Institute of Education) of NCERT at Bhubaneshwar. He did his MSc (Zoology) and PhD (1982) (radiation genetics) under the guidance of Professor T Sharma, FNA, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi where he published his first paper in Nature. He joined, as Research Officer at the Cytology Research Centre (ICMR), New Delhi, now Institute of Cytology & Preventive Oncology (ICPO), Noida. In 1986, Das joined as a Guest Scientist to work on human papillomavirus and cervical cancer with Professor Harald zur Hausen, then Director of German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Germany. On returning from DKFZ, Heidelberg (1988), he stayed back at ICPO. In 2008, Dr Das retired as Chief of Division of Molecular Oncology and Director of Institute of Cytology and Preventive Oncology (ICMR) at Noida and Immediately joined as Professor of Biomedical Science at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Center for Biomedical Research (ACBR), University of Delhi (North Campus) where he became Director in 2010.
Research Interest
Molecular Biology of Cancer, Molecular Virology and Human Molecular Genetics
