B. L. Somani

Biography

Dr. Aditi Chatterjee obtained her Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry from the University of Calcutta, India. After completing her graduate studies, she joined the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, USA, first as a Postdoctoral fellow and was later promoted as an Instructor. At IOB she has established a research program on molecular dissection of oral cancer and her research focuses on molecular genetics and proteomic alterations that drives the progression of different types of cancer associated with tobacco. This includes head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), esophageal and lung cancer. She is specifically interested in the molecular epidemiology of tobacco-induced cancers and the link between tobacco use and mutations or proteomic alterations of critical oncogenes or tumor suppressor genes.

Research Interest

Proteomics