Prof. Kaushik Biswas
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Bose Institute. Previous research appointments span India and the United States.
When a membrane lipid becomes an oncogenic signal.
GM2 sits at the intersection of membrane biology, signalling and transcription. Scroll through the site to follow the chain from glycolipid abundance to cancer-cell behaviour.
Career Milestones
Elected Fellow, WAST
West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology.
Associate Professor
Bose Institute, Kolkata.
Assistant Professor
Bose Institute, Kolkata.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, CSIR–IICB, Kolkata.
PhD Research Fellow
Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, CSIR–IICB, Kolkata.
MSc in Biochemistry
University of Calcutta.
“Our Vision is to understand these mechanisms that would provide us with the necessary information to target such an ‘Oncogenic’ process and reverse it.”
Scientific societies
- AACR
- SBC(I)
- ISCB
- DNA Society of India