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ABOUT ME

Dr. Durba Pal has joined Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India as an Assistant Professor in the Center for Biomedical Engineering in December 2016. After completing her Master's from the University of Calcutta, she joined CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata and then Visva-Bharati University, West Bengal for pursuing her Ph.D. in the field of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. She carried out her Ph.D. research work on the topic – “Role of fetuin-A in lipid induced insulin resistance”. She discovered that fetuin-A, a hepatic secretory glycoprotein, acts as a molecular adapter which links toll-like receptor (TLR4) with saturated free fatty acids and plays a pivotal role in lipid-induced adipose tissue inflammation and insulin resistance. Thus, her research demonstrated that fetuin-A could be a novel therapeutic target for the management of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. This work was published in Nature Medicine, where she contributed as the first author, and highlighted in other reputed journals like Cell, Science Signaling, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Immunology, Diabetes.

 

After completion of her Ph.D. in INDIA, she joined as a Post-doctoral Fellow under Prof. Chandan K. Sen at The Ohio State University-Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA, where she worked in the field of cellular reprogramming and regenerative medicine. During her postdoctoral research, she has been successful for in-vivo transdifferentiation of dermal fibroblasts to endothelial cells as well as neurons using a novel, yet simple-to-implement nano-electroporation approach. This work recently published in Nature Nanotechnology where she contributed as a joint first author. She has also authored several research publications in peer-reviewed international journals and her work recognized with various awards including recent achievements of NASI Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award - 2017 from The National Academy of Science, India and SERB Women Excellence Award 2018, SERB Early Career Research Award - 2017 from Scientific and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi. She also serves as a reviewer for various international journals. Her current research work is primarily focused on the cell-based therapeutics in disease biology and application of tissue engineering in regenerative medicine.

EDUCATION

Post-Doctoral Fellow : The Ohio State University - Wexner Medical Center, USA

Ph.D : Visva-Bharati (A Central University), INDIA

M.Sc. : University of Calcutta, INDIA

B.Sc. : Lady Brabourne College (University of Calcutta), INDIA

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