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Snehasikta Swarnakar
Born1963
West Bengal, India
NationalityIndian
Alma mater
Known forStudies on gastric, ovarian, head and neck cancers
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions

Snehasikta Swarnakar (born 1963) is an Indian chemical biologist and the senior principal scientist at the Division of Cancer Biology and Inflammatory Disorder of the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology. Known for his studies in the field of gastric, ovarian, head and neck cancers, Swarnakar is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India and the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences in 2007.

Biography

Aurobindo Bhavan - Main Administrative Building - Jadavpur University.

Snehasikta Swarnakar, born in 1963[1] in the Indian state of West Bengal, secured a PhD in 1993 from Jadavpur University for his thesis, Studies on a sialic acid-binding lectin from albumin gland of apple snail Pila globosa,[2] working on junior and senior research fellowships from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research[3] and moved to the US for his post-doctoral work which he completed at the University of California, Davis and Marine Biological Laboratory during 1994–97.[4] He started his career in 1997 as a research scientist at the Stony Brook University where he worked until 2001 and on his return to India, he joined the Division of Cancer Biology and Inflammatory Disorder of the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology where he holds the position of a senior principal scientist. In between, he had two stints as a visiting scientist abroad; first at the Scripps Research Institute in 2002 and then at the University of Connecticut in 2007. He is also a visiting professor at the Department of Environmental Science of the University of Calcutta.[5]

Swarnakar resides along Lake Road in Kolkata.[1]

Legacy

Turmeric rhizome and powder

Swarnakar's research is focused on cancer biology and he is known to have conducted basic and translational research on various types of cancers such as lung, brain, oral, breast, pancreatic, blood and cervical cancers.[6] He led a team of scientists who worked on the therapeutic properties of turmeric and they identified that the controlled dosage of curcumin, an ingredient of turmeric which gave the rhizome its yellow color, acted as a therapeutic agent for gastric inflammation and ulceration.[7] They demonstrated that curcumin increased MMP2 enzyme level while deceasing the MMP9 enzyme, thus ensured balance of the two enzymes which acted in opposite ways in the formation of new blood vessels. They also proposed a treatment protocol for gastric ulcers with the use of nanocapsules and antioxidants where quercetin, an antioxidant present in apples, tomatoes and onions is administered through nanocapsules to treat ethanol-induced gastric ulcers.[8][note 1] His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles[note 2] and ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 103 of them.[9] Besides, he has contributed chapters to books edited by others.[10][11] He has also delivered invited or plenary speeches at science conferences[12][13] and has mentored several scholars in their post-graduate and doctoral studies.[14]

Swarnakar is member of the governing body of the ANB Memorial Foundation, a trust in memory of Amar Nath Bhaduri, the noted chemical biologist[15] he was the secretary of the organizing committee of the 2nd International Meet on Advanced Studies on Cell Signaling Network (CeSiN 2014) held in Kolkata.[16] He is the treasurer of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology[17] and sits in the council of the Chemical Biology Society.[18] He is also a life member of the Indian Science Congress Association, the Biotech Research Society, India, the Society for Free Radical Research, the International Society for Computational Biology and the Society of Biological Chemists, India.[3]

Awards and honors

The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2007.[19] He was elected as a fellow by the National Academy of Sciences, India in 2012[20] and was one of the team members of Anirban Bandyopadhyay who won the Palo Alto Longevity Prize in 2013.[21] He is also an elected fellow of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology.[22]

Selected bibliography

Chapters

  • Naranjan S. Dhalla; Sajal Chakraborti (Eds); Sibani Sarkar, Somnath Chatterjee, Snehasikta Swarnakar (chapter authors) (22 November 2013). "Matrix Metalloproteinases in Ischemia - Reperfusion Injury in Brain: Anti-oxidants as Rescuer". Role of Proteases in Cellular Dysfunction (in en.). Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 67–. ISBN 978-1-4614-9099-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  • Satya Prakash Gupta (Ed.); Snehasikta Swarnakar, Amartya Mishra, Susri Ray Chaudhuri (Eds) (7 April 2012). "The Gelatinases and Their Inhibitors: The Structure–Activity Relationships". Matrix Metalloproteinase Inhibitors: Specificity of Binding and Structure-Activity Relationships (in en.). Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-3-0348-0363-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

Articles

See also

Notes

  1. ^ The antioxidant cleaned the reactive oxygen species (ROS), a chemically reactive species that contained oxygen
  2. ^ Please see Selected bibliography section

References

  1. ^ a b "NASI fellows". National Academy of Sciences, India. 2017-12-21. Retrieved 2017-12-21.
  2. ^ Administrator (2017-12-24). "Editorial Board - JPBMS". www.jpbms.info. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
  3. ^ a b "Link - IICB". www.noexperiencenecessarybook.com. 2017-12-24. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
  4. ^ "Snehasikta Swarnakar - Senior Principal Scientist". iicb.res.in. 2017-12-24. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
  5. ^ "Environmental Science - Guest faculty". www.caluniv.ac.in. 2017-12-24. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
  6. ^ "Cancer Biology & Inflammatory Disorder". iicb.res.in. 2017-12-24. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
  7. ^ "Turmeric Can Soothe Gastric Inflammation, Ulcers". indiatimes.com. September 26, 2012. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
  8. ^ "On ResearchGate". On ResearchGate. 2017-12-21. Retrieved 2017-12-21.
  9. ^ Naranjan S. Dhalla; Sajal Chakraborti (Eds); Sibani Sarkar, Somnath Chatterjee, Snehasikta Swarnakar (chapter authors) (22 November 2013). "Matrix Metalloproteinases in Ischemia - Reperfusion Injury in Brain: Anti-oxidants as Rescuer". Role of Proteases in Cellular Dysfunction (in en.). Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 67–. ISBN 978-1-4614-9099-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  10. ^ Satya Prakash Gupta (Ed.); Snehasikta Swarnakar, Amartya Mishra, Susri Ray Chaudhuri (Eds) (7 April 2012). "The Gelatinases and Their Inhibitors: The Structure–Activity Relationships". Matrix Metalloproteinase Inhibitors: Specificity of Binding and Structure-Activity Relationships (in en.). Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-3-0348-0363-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  11. ^ "14th Annual Meeting of SFRR-India" (PDF). SFRR-India. January 2016.
  12. ^ "4th APSAAR - 5th IDARS Conference". APSAAR. 2015. {{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
  13. ^ "List of AcSIR Students". AcSIR. 2017-12-24. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
  14. ^ "AN Bhaduri Memorial Foundation". anbhaduri.org. 2017-12-24. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
  15. ^ "International Conference Cesin 2014". International Conference Cesin 2014. 2017-12-24. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
  16. ^ "WAST Executive Council". www.iicb.res.in. 2017-12-24. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
  17. ^ "Chemical Biology Society". www.cbs-india.org. 2017-12-24. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
  18. ^ "Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development" (PDF). Department of Biotechnology. 2016. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
  19. ^ "NASI Year Book 2015" (PDF). National Academy of Sciences, India. 2017-12-17. Retrieved 2017-12-17.
  20. ^ "Palo Alto Longevity Prize". paloaltoprize.com. 2017-12-24. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
  21. ^ "WAST fellows" (PDF). West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology. 2017-12-24. Retrieved 2017-12-24.

Further reading

External links

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