Chromatin Dynamics Lab
Prof. Chandrima Das
Biophysical Sciences Division
Decoding Chromatin to Understand Disease
We investigate how chromatin readers and epigenetic regulators reshape transcriptional programs, cellular metabolism and cell fate, and how their dysregulation drives cancer, metabolic disorders and host-pathogen interactions.
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
RESEARCH FOCUS
Chromatin & Epigenetics
How chromatin readers and epigenetic regulators control gene expression.
Cancer & Metabolism
Understanding how altered transcription and metabolism contribute to disease
Host-Pathogen Interactions
Exploring how cellular regulatory mechanisms influence infection and disease progression
From molecular mechanisms to disease biology
Prof Chandrima Das
Professor-G
SwarnaJayanti Fellow, Department of Science and Technology
Biophysics and Structural Genomics Division
DAE - Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
Phone:
033-2337-0221 Ext- 4623
Fax:
+91-33-2337-4637
Email:
Address:
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
Sector-I, Block- AF, Salt Lake
Kolkata-700064, West Bengal, India
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Awards/Honors
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CDRI Award for Excellence in Drug Research in Life Science category, from Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), 2021
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S. Ramachandran - National Bioscience Award For Career Development-2019, from Department of Biotechnology (2020-2022)
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SwarnaJayanti Fellowship from Department of Science and Technology-2018 (2019-2024)
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Ramalingaswami Fellowship from Department of Biotechnology-2011 (2012-2017)
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Susan G. Komen Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded for basic sciences in Breast Cancer Research-2009 (2009-2012)
Membership of national and international academies
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Elected Fellow The National Academy of Sciences (FNASc.), India (2020)
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American Chemical Society (ACS) Chemical Biology, Early Career Board Member (2020)
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Elected Fellow of West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology (FAScT) (2019)
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Elected member of Guha Research Conference (GRC) (2018)
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Life Member of Indian Society of Cell Biology (ISCB) India (2017)
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Life Member of Indian Association for Cancer Research (IACR) India (2017)
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Life Member of Chemical Biology Society (CBS) India (2016)
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Life Member of Society of Biological Chemists (SBC) India (2007)
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Member of The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) and The American Chemical Society (ACS)
Academic
2012-Present
2008-2012
2007
2012-Present, Biophysics and Structural Genomics Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Salt Lake, Sector-1, Block-AF, Bidhan nagar, Kolkata-700064, India
Postdoctoral Fellow at UT MD. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX-77030, USA and University of Colorado Denver, Aurora-80045, USA.
Ph.D. at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore-560064, India.
