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Anirban Basu
Born (1968-11-16) November 16, 1968 (age 55)
Calcutta, West Bengal, India
NationalityIndian
Alma mater
Known forStudies on Japanese encephalitis
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions

Anirban Basu (born November 16, 1968) is an Indian neurobiologist, neurovirologist and a professor at the National Brain Research Centre, a deemed university located in Gurgaon, Haryana. Known for his studies on neurodiseases such as Japanese encephalitis, Basu is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science Academies namely the Indian Academy of Sciences, the Indian National Science Academy and the National Academy of Sciences, India as well as of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology. He is the co-editor of Inflammation: the Common Link in Brain Pathologies, a reference text on neuropathogenesis, neurological diseases, and neuropharmacology. 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 2010.

Biography

Vidyalaya Griha - Vishwa Bharati University

Anirban Basu, born on November 16, 1968[1] in Calcutta, in the Indian state of West Bengal, completed his undergraduate studies (BSc Hons) in 1991 and post graduate course (MSc) in 1993 after which he pursued his doctoral studies at the School of Life Sciences of the Vishwa Bharati University to secure a PhD in 1998.[2] His post doctoral studies were, at first at the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology of Jadavpur University and later, at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.[3] Returning to India, he joined the National Brain Research Centre (NBRC) in 2004 as a scientist and a member of its faculty.[4] At NBRC, he serves as a grade VI scientist and a professor and has established an independent laboratory where he hosts many research scholars and scientists.[5]

Basu resides near the National Security Guard campus in the industrial city of Manesar, in Gurgaon, Haryana.[6]

Professional profile

The geographic distribution of Japanese encephalitis (in yellow)

Basu's research focus is on central nervous system diseases (CNS diseases) and he has studied the central nervous system with regard to how microglia and neural stem/progenitor cells affect the system.[7] The team led by him are involved in research on the pathogenesis of viruses such as Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) and Chandipura virus (CHPV) and how they cause neuro-degeneration in hosts.[8] In 2011, his group identified minocycline, a broad-spectrum tetracycline antibiotic generally used for treating skin infections, as having properties in fighting the disease of Japanese encephalitis, which they discovered through their experiments on mice.[9] The findings were put on clinical trial at the King George's Medical University where it was found to have beneficial effect on Japanese encephalitis and Acute encephalitis syndrome patients who survive the initial attack of the diseases and this has led to a wider study on the subject.[7] He has also worked on the effect of tobacco and its role in triggering neuron damage as well as the effect of environmental pollutants and heavy metals on human brain.[9] His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles[10][11][note 1] and ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 156 of them.[12] Besides, he has published a book, Inflammation: the Common Link in Brain Pathologies, a reference text on neuropathogenesis, neurological diseases, and neuropharmacology, co-edited with Nihar Ranjan Jana and Prakash Narain Tandon.[13] He was the guest editor for Clinical and Developmental Immunology journal when they released a special issue on Microglia in Development and Disease in 2013[3] and has mentored several research scholars in the post-graduate, doctoral and post-doctoral studies.[7]

Basu is a member of the Neurobiology Task force of the Department of Biotechnology[14] and serves as a member of the Faculty of 1000 at their division dealing with infectious diseases of the nervous system.[15] He is also associated with such journals as the Journal of Neurochemistry,[16] Scientific Reports,[17] Journal of Neuroinflammation,[18] and Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience[19] as a member of their editorial boards and has delivered invited speeches at seminars which included the XXXIV Annual Meeting of Indian Academy of Neurosciences held in October 2016 at NBRC,[20] where he was also a co-organizing secretary.[21]

Awards and honors

The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2010.[22] The National Academy of Sciences, India elected him as a fellow in 2012[23] and he received the VASVIK Industrial Research Award the same year.[24] He was chosen for the Rajib Goyal Prize of Kurukshetra University in 2012,[13] the same year as he became an elected fellow of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology, and a year later, he received the NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award.[25] He was awarded the Sreenivasaya Memorial Award of Society of Biological Chemists (India) in 2017 [26] and two of the other major Indian science academies, the Indian National Science Academy[7] and the Indian Academy of Sciences elected him as their fellow in 2017 and 2018 respectively[27] He held the Tata Innvovation fellowship of the the Department of Biotechnology in 2015 and the award orations delivered by him included the 2011 edition of the Dr. J. B. Srivastav Oration of the Indian Council of Medical Research,[28] the Senior Scientist Oration of the Indian Immunology Society in 2015[29] Prof. S. S. Katiyar Endowment Lecture of the Indian Science Congress Association in 2018.[7]

Selected bibliography

Books

  • Nihar Jana; Anirban Basu; Prakash Narain Tandon (13 August 2016). Inflammation: the Common Link in Brain Pathologies. Springer. ISBN 978-981-10-1711-7.

Articles

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Please see Selected bibliography section

References

  1. ^ "Fellow profile". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2018-01-26. Retrieved 2018-01-26.
  2. ^ "Proforma for Nominations" (PDF). Department of Biotechnology. 2017. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  3. ^ a b "Anirban Basu on NBRC". National Brain Research Centre. 2018-01-27. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  4. ^ "Faculty profile". National Brain Research Centre. 2018-01-27. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  5. ^ "Lab Members". National Brain Research Centre. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  6. ^ "NASI fellows". National Academy of Sciences, India. 2018-01-25. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
  7. ^ a b c d e "Indian fellow". Indian National Science Academy. 2018-01-26. Retrieved 2018-01-26.
  8. ^ "Research Interests". National rain Research Centre. 2018-01-27. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  9. ^ a b "Old drug, new prescription". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  10. ^ "On Google Scholar". Google Scholar. 2018-01-20. Retrieved 2018-01-20.
  11. ^ "Browse by Fellow". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2018-01-16. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
  12. ^ "On ResearchGate". On ResearchGate. 2018-01-20. Retrieved 2018-01-20.
  13. ^ a b Nihar Jana; Anirban Basu; Prakash Narain Tandon (13 August 2016). Inflammation: the Common Link in Brain Pathologies. Springer. ISBN 978-981-10-1711-7. Cite error: The named reference "JanaBasu2016" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  14. ^ "Dr. Anirban Basu - DBT Neurobiology Task force". dbt-neuro.ncbs.res.in. 2018-01-27. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  15. ^ "F1000Prime - Anirban Basu: Advisory Board Member in Infectious Diseases of the Nervous System". f1000.com. 2018-01-27. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  16. ^ "Journal of Neurochemistry - Editorial Board - Wiley Online Library". Journal of Neurochemistry. 2018-01-27. doi:10.1111/(issn)1471-4159/homepage/editorialboard.html#basu. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  17. ^ "Editorial Advisory Panel and Editorial Board - Scientific Reports". www.nature.com. 2018-01-27. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  18. ^ "Editorial Board - Journal of Neuroinflammation". Journal of Neuroinflammation. 2018-01-27. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  19. ^ "Editorial Board - Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience". Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience. 2018-01-27. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  20. ^ "XXXIV Annual Meeting of Indian Academy of Neurosciences" (PDF). Indian Academy of Neurosciences. 2018-01-27. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  21. ^ "Annual Meeting of IAN". www.nbrc.ac.in. 2018-01-27. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  22. ^ "Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development" (PDF). Department of Biotechnology. 2016. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
  23. ^ "NASI Year Book 2015" (PDF). National Academy of Sciences, India. 2018-01-25. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
  24. ^ "Vasvik Award". Vividhlaxi Audyogik Samshodhan Vikas Kendra. 2018-01-27. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  25. ^ "NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award". National Academy of Sciences, India. 2018-01-27. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  26. ^ "Sreenivasaya Memorial Award" (PDF). Society of Biological Chemists (India). Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  27. ^ "Fellowship - Indian Academy of Sciences". www.ias.ac.in. 2018-01-27. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  28. ^ "Dr. J. B. Srivastav Oration Award" (PDF). Indian Council of Medical Research. 2018-01-27. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  29. ^ "Minutes of the General Body Meeting held in the evening of October 10, 2015" (PDF). Indian Immunology Society. 2018-01-27. Retrieved 2018-01-27.

Further reading

External links

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