Sanjay Kumar Dey, PhD
Education
Bio
After completing a BSc Hons. degree in Human Physiology and a MSc in Molecular Biology and Genetics, both from the Calcutta University, India, Dr. Dey has significantly contributed to the field of structure-based drug discovery against hypertension and cardiac-hypertrophy taking dopamine beta hydroxylase and cytochrome b5 reductase3 as two targets during his doctoral work in the supervision of Prof. Suman Kundu of the Department of Biochemistry, University of Delhi, India. His phenomenal research findings facilitated by his enormous scientific skills in the biophysical, biochemical, and animal model systems has resulted into two published patents (201811005899A and 201711036983A) and many high-impact research papers.
Buoyed by his expertise in the fields of structural biology and protein biochemistry, he is continuously accomplishing his postdoctoral research by expressing, purifying, characterizing and solving cryo-EM structures of challenging HIV and SARS-CoV-2 protein and polyproteins in Prof. Eddy Arnold’s lab at CABM.
Research Focus
• UGC sponsored Senior Research Fellowship from January, 2013 to December, 2015.
• UGC sponsored Junior Research Fellowship from January, 2011 to December, 2012.
• DST INSPIRE Fellowship for pursuing PhD, December, 2010.
• DBT Sponsored Traineeship for working in Bioinformatics during 2009-2010.
• DBT Sponsored Studentship for pursuing project work in Bioinformatics during 2008-2009.
• West Bengal Govt. Merit cum Means Scholarship for pursuing M.Sc. during 2007-2009.
• Won international travel award to attend “the 2020 International School of Crystallography” organized by the University of Florence, Italy.
• Won first prize/best poster award among ~220 posters in the 7th Symposium on the “Current trends in drug discovery research 2019” organized by CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India, during 20th-23rd February, 2019.
• Won third best poster award in the “International Symposium on Structure Assisted Design on Novel Therapeutics 2019” organized by the Regional Center for Biotechnology (RCB), Faridabad, India during 12th-16th February, 2019.
• ‘American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 2018 Graduate/Postdoctoral Travel Award 2018’ by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology for attending and presenting research work in the annual meeting of the Experimental Biology Symposium, San Diego, USA.
• ‘Council of Scientific and Industrial Research International Travel Award 2018’, for attending the EB Annual Meeting 2018 of the ASBMB, USA by CSIR, Govt. of India.
• ‘Best Poster Award 2018’ in the Indian Section of the International Society for Heart Research annual meeting held at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh.
• ‘Prof. Devendra K. Agrawal Young Investigator Award 2018’ by the International Academy for Cardiovascular Research (Indian Section) at Madurai Kamaraja University, India.
• ‘Best Poster Award 2017’ in the Indian Biophysical Society Meeting, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali.
• Awarded “travel grant to attend IBS Meeting2017” in IISER, Mohali by IBS, India.
• Awarded “travel grant to attend ISH2016” meeting in South Korea by ISH, UK.
• Awarded ‘ISH Research Fellow’ by the International Society of Hypertension, UK, 2015.
• ‘INSA-CSIR-DAE/BRNS-CICS International Travel Award’, for attending the Council on Hypertension Scientific Sessions 2015 of the American Heart Association, USA by CICS, GOI.
• ‘Indian Council of Medical Research International Travel Award’, for attending the Council on Hypertension Scientific Sessions 2015 of the AHA, USA by ICMR, Govt. of India.
• ‘DBT Travel Award’ to attend the Council on Hypertension Scientific Sessions 2015 of the AHA, USA by the Dept. of Biotechnology, Govt. of India.
• ‘Immunology Foundation Bursary Award’ to attend the Council on Hypertension Scientific Sessions 2015 of the American Heart Association, USA by the Immunology Foundation, India.
• ‘Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds travel award 2015 for basic research in medicine’ to pursue research at the Hamburg University, Germany, by the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds, Germany.
• ‘Best Poster Award 2015’ in the Cardiovascular Research Convergence-2, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
• ‘Science and Engineering Research Board Financial Award’, for attending HBPR2014 and ISH New Investigator Symposium on Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease 2014, USA by the Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.
• ‘DBT Travel award’ to attend HBPR2014, USA by the Dept. of Biotechnology, Govt. of India.
• ‘Professor Ratna Phadke Young Scientist Award 2013’ in the 37th Annual Meeting of Indian Biophysical Society.
• ‘Best Poster Award 2013’ in the Society for Young Scientists’ Conference, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
• ‘3rd Best Poster Award 2013’ in the National Conference on Recent Advances in Computational Drug Design, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
• ‘Professor Atul Chandra Biswas Memorial Award 2009’ as Best All-round Academic Performer among the P.G. Students of Presidency College, Kolkata.
• ‘Professor Sivotosh Mukherjee Memorial Award 2009’ for securing highest marks in M.Sc. in Molecular Biology and Genetics in Presidency College, Kolkata.
• ‘Govt. Eden Hindu Hostel Excellence Award 2008’ for securing highest marks in M.Sc. among all subjects in the Govt. Eden Hindu Hostel of Presidency College, Kolkata.
• ‘Professor Hemendra Nath Mukherjee Memorial Medal 2007’ for securing highest marks in Bio- science in Ananda Mohan College, Kolkata.
• Won 2nd and 3rd prizes respectively in State Level Essay and Lecture Competitions on ‘Scientists against superstitions’, organized by Paschim Banga Vigyan Mancha, Kolkata on the occasion of celebrating International Year of Physics, (2005).
• Won 1st prize in the District Level Essay Competition on ‘National Integration and Communal Harmony’ organized jointly by Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India and Ministry of Information & Culture, Govt. of W.B., (2004).
• Won 1st prize in State Level Essay Competition on ‘Nature Needs Proper Feedback’, (2004).
• Life Member, Biophysical Society of India. Membership number 906.
• Member of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, USA
• Research Fellow Member of the International Society of Hypertension, UK.
• Member of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research, American Heart Association, USA.
• Research Fellow Member of the Indian Section, International Society for Heart Research, USA.
• Life Member of the Indian Section of the International Academy for Cardiovascular Sciences, USA.
• Member, Protein Society, India.