Anirban Basu

Anirban Basu
Born (1968-11-16) 16 November 1968
India
Residence Manesar, Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Nationality Indian
Alma mater
Known for Studies on Japanese encephalitis
Awards
2018 Prof. S. S. Katiyar Endowment Lecture of the Indian Science Congress Association
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions

Anirban Basu (born 16 November 1968) is an Indian neurobiologist, who is primarily interested in neurovirology, a senior scientist at the National Brain Research Centre, a deemed to be university, located in Manesar, Gurgaon, Haryana. Known for his studies on disease-biology 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. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the prominent Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences and biotechnology, in 2010.

Biography

Vidyalaya Griha - Viswa Bharati University

Anirban Basu, born on 16 November 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 at the School of Life Sciences of the Viswa Bharati University .[2] His doctoral studies were at the CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology and later, he has done his post doctoral studies at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey,Pennsylvania.[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, presently he serves as a senior scientist and has established an independent laboratory to study different aspects of neurotropic viral infection of brain.[5]

Basu resides inside the campus of National Brain Research Center, Manesar.

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.[6] The team led by him are involved in research on the pathogenesis of viruses such as Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), West Nile Virus (WNV) and Chandipura virus (CHPV) and how they cause neuronal damage in hosts.[7] 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.[8] 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.[6] 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.[9] 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.[6]

Basu serves as a member of the Faculty of 1000 at their division dealing with infectious diseases of the nervous system.[10] He is also part of the editorial board of journals such as the Journal of Neurochemistry,[11] Scientific Reports,[12] Journal of Neuroinflammation,[13] and Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience[14]

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 prominent Indian science awards in 2010.[15] The National Academy of Sciences, India elected him as a fellow in 2011[16] and he received the VASVIK Industrial Research Award the same year.[17] He was chosen for the Rajib Goyal Prize of Kurukshetra University in 2012,[18] 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.[19] He was awarded the Sreenivasaya Memorial Award of Society of Biological Chemists (India) in 2017 [20] and two of the other major Indian science academies, the Indian National Science Academy[6] and the Indian Academy of Sciences elected him as their fellow in 2017 and 2018 respectively[21] He held the Tata Innvovation fellowship of 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,[22] the Senior Scientist Oration of the Indian Immunology Society in 2015[23] Prof. S. S. Katiyar Endowment Lecture of the Indian Science Congress Association in 2018.[6]

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

  • Hazra, Bibhabasu; Chakraborty, Surajit; Basu, Anirban. "miR-301a mediated immune evasion by Japanese encephalitis virus". Oncotarget. 8 (53). doi:10.18632/oncotarget.21674.
  • Basu, Anirban; Dutta, Kallol (2017-03-13). "Recent advances in Japanese encephalitis". F1000Research. 6. doi:10.12688/f1000research.9561.1.
  • Hazra, Bibhabasu; Kumawat, Kanhaiya Lal; Basu, Anirban (2017-02-14). "The host microRNA miR-301a blocks the IRF1-mediated neuronal innate immune response to Japanese encephalitis virus infection". Sci. Signal. 10 (466): eaaf5185. doi:10.1126/scisignal.aaf5185. ISSN 1945-0877. PMID 28196914.

See also

Notes

    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. 1 2 "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. 1 2 3 4 5 "Indian fellow". Indian National Science Academy. 2018-01-26. Retrieved 2018-01-26.
    7. ↑ "Research Interests". National rain Research Centre. 2018-01-27. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
    8. ↑ "Old drug, new prescription". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
    9. ↑ Nihar Jana; Anirban Basu; Prakash Narain Tandon (13 August 2016). Inflammation: the Common Link in Brain Pathologies. Springer. ISBN 978-981-10-1711-7.
    10. ↑ "F1000Prime - Anirban Basu: Advisory Board Member in Infectious Diseases of the Nervous System". f1000.com. 2018-01-27. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
    11. ↑ "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.
    12. ↑ "Editorial Advisory Panel and Editorial Board - Scientific Reports". www.nature.com. 2018-01-27. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
    13. ↑ "Editorial Board - Journal of Neuroinflammation". Journal of Neuroinflammation. 2018-01-27. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
    14. ↑ "Editorial Board - Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience". Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience. 2018-01-27. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
    15. ↑ "Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development" (PDF). Department of Biotechnology. 2016. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
    16. ↑ "NASI Year Book 2015" (PDF). National Academy of Sciences, India. 2018-01-25. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
    17. ↑ "Vasvik Award". Vividhlaxi Audyogik Samshodhan Vikas Kendra. 2018-01-27. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
    18. ↑ Nihar Jana; Anirban Basu; Prakash Narain Tandon (13 August 2016). Inflammation: the Common Link in Brain Pathologies. Springer. pp. 9–. ISBN 978-981-10-1711-7.
    19. ↑ "NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award". National Academy of Sciences, India. 2018-01-27. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
    20. ↑ "Sreenivasaya Memorial Award" (PDF). Society of Biological Chemists (India). Retrieved 2018-01-27.
    21. ↑ "Fellowship - Indian Academy of Sciences". www.ias.ac.in. 2018-01-27. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
    22. ↑ "Dr. J. B. Srivastav Oration Award" (PDF). Indian Council of Medical Research. 2018-01-27. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
    23. ↑ "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

    • Ghosh, Sourish; Mukherjee, Sriparna; Basu, Anirban (2015-10-01). "Chandipura virus perturbs cholesterol homeostasis leading to neuronal apoptosis". Journal of Neurochemistry. 135 (2): 368–380. doi:10.1111/jnc.13208. ISSN 1471-4159.
    • "Eureka with Dr Anirban Basu" (YouTube video). Rajya Sabha TV. 29 October 2017. Retrieved 2018-01-26.
    • "Molecules to Mind - International Symposium on Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Brain Functions" (PDF). DBT-Electronic Library Consortium. October 2016. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
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