Amit Pal

Biography

 Dr. Amit Pal is a Scientist D at the Division of Pathophysiology, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED) in Kolkata. He joined NICED in March 1999 as a Senior Research Officer. He did his Bachelors and Masters in Physiology from Kolkata University. He completed his doctoral thesis related to enteric toxins at Division of Microbiology, NICED in 1992. He did his postdoctoral research on molecular characterization of V. cholerae O1 strains under Dr Y Takeda at the Department of Microbiology, Kyoto University from 1992 to 1994. He was a Research Associate at the Department of Molecular Biology at the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Jadavpur, Kolkata from 1994 to 1995. He did his next postdoctoral research from 1995 to 1997 at the National Children's Hospital, Tokya, Japan under Dr T. Takeda working on molecular epidemiological studies on E. coli O157:H7 strains. He was a pool officer at the Department of Microbiology, NICED from 1997-1999. Since 1999 he has joined NICED working as a Senior Research Officer at the Division of Pathophysiology. He has been working on the enterotoxigenicity of cholera toxin gene negative V. cholerae non-O1, non-O139 strains. He has three Ph. D students working under him. At present he is working as a visiting researcher at the Department of Molecular Biology Umea University, Sweden. He is also the main partner in the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education along with Dr Sun Nyunt Wai, Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Umea University. The STINT project is related to work on molecular pathogenesis of V. cholerae O1 strains.

Research Interest

 Epidemiology, Pathology, Molecular Biology