JAYANTA BHATTACHARYA
SCIENTIST D

  JAYANTA BHATTACHARYA

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Date of Birth: 07-12-1968
Date of Joining ICMR: January, 2006
Date of Joining Present Post: January, 2006

Address (Off):

NATIONAL AIDS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
P.B.NO.1895 :73, G BHOSARI IND ESTATE
PUNE - 411026 .
Address (Res): D-4, G-73 MIDC,
Bhosari, Pune - 411026
Telephone (off): 020-27121342
Fax : 020-27121071
Email : jbhattacharya@nariindia.org
Educational Qualifications:

Degree Year Institution
B.Sc (Honors) in Physiology1990Burdwan University, West Bengal, India
M.Sc. (Human Physiology) 1992Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India
Ph.D. (Physiology/Microbial Pathogenesis)1999University of Calcutta, India

Discipline:
VIRUS DISEASES



Research Experience:
13 Years
  1. Junior and Senior Research Fellow, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, ICMR, Calcutta (1993-1998). Area: Pathophysiology of Enteric Bacteria and toxins.
  2. Postdoctoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Microbiology, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, USA (1999-2001). Area: Template interactions in Alphavirus (Sindbis) replication.
  3. Senior Postdoctoral Associate at the Program in Molecular Medicine, Center for AIDS Research, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA (2001 Dec-2004 June). Area: HIV pathogenesis.
  4. Instructor (Non-tenure faculty post) at the Program in Molecular Medicine, Center for AIDS Research, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA (2004 July-2005). Area: HIV pathogenesis.
  5. Assistant Director, Department of Molecular Virology, National AIDS Research Institute, ICMR, Pune (2006 Jan-Present).
Membership/Fellowship of Professional Societies/Associations :
  • American Society of Microbiology
  • Physiological Society of India
Awards:
  • Research Grant Award from The American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR), USA, 2005-2006 (at National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, India)
  • Research Fellowship Grant Award from The American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR), USA, 2004-2005 (at UMASS Medical School, Worcester, USA).
  • UNESCO-ASM Visiting Resource Person Program Award, 2005.
  • Travel Grant Award 11th Conference on Retrovirus & Opportunistic infection, San Francisco, CA, USA 2004.
  • Travel Grant Award 12th Conference on Retrovirus & Opportunistic infection, Boston, MA, USA, 2004
  • Junior Scientist Award and Prof. P.B.Sen Memorial award from The Physiological Society of India (1998).
  • Senior and Junior Research Fellowships from Indian Council of Medical Research (1995-1998).
  • Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) conducted by Indian Institute of Technology, 1993.

  • CURRENTLY 3 RESEARCH GRANTS AS PRINCIPALINVESTIGATOR (2 from DBT/ICMR and 1 from American Foundation of AIDS Research (amfAR, USA)
  • OTHERS:
    (i) http://www.amfar.org/cgi-bin/iowa/programs/resrch/record.html?record=33
    http://www.amfar.org/cgi-bin/iowa/programs/resrch/record.html?record=36
  • HEADS THE DIVISION OF MOLECULAR VIROLOGY
Foreign Visits:
  1. PARTICIPATION IN THE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON NEUROVIROLOGY. TO U.S.A.
    FROM 2009-06-02 TO 2009-06-06

  2. TRG.IN MOLECULAR CLONING OF FUNCTIONAL HIV-1 ENVELOP PROTEIN &APPL.OF ASSAYS TO MEASURE NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY RESP.TO HIV TO U.S.A.
    FROM 2006-08-07 TO 2006-09-15


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