So far 12 Ph.D. and 53 MD/MS/DM students have received their degrees under his supervision and guidance. Dr. Das is the recipient of President’s medal for most prestigious Dr. B.C. Roy National Award of MCI, Sandoz Oration Award of ICMR and a fellow of International Union Against Cancer (UICC), Geneva. He is fellow of all major national science and medical academies, FNA, FASc, FNASc & FAMS. Recently, Dr. Das has been elected as President of Indian Association for Cancer Research (IACR) for 3 years (2006-09). He is an expert member of the GlobalHPV Vaccine Program of WHO, Geneva. Dr. Das has received Ranbaxy Research Award in Applied Medical Research andICMR’s P.N. Wahi Award inPreventive Oncology for the year 2005.

Date of Birth : 1948-05-01

Date of Joining Present Post : 23rdNovember, 2004

Discipline :

GENETICS      CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY      ONCOLOGY      VIRUS DISEASES

Educational Qualifications:

• Ph.D.(Radiation Genetics) from Banaras Hindu University , Varanasi (1982)
  
  
• M.Sc.(Zoology) from Banaras Hindu University , Varanasi (1974).
  
  
• B.Sc.(Hons) & B.Ed (Sc.) (Zoology) of NCERT from Regional College of Education, Bhubaneswar (1971)

Research Experience:

• Molecular biology and epidemiology of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical cancer
  
  
• Gene expression and transcriptional regulation of Human Papillomavirus (HPV)
  
  
• Molecular targeting of cancer cells by herbal molecules for therapeutic drug development.
  
  
• Gene expression and transcription in breast, oral and esophageal cancer
  
  
• Molecular biology and molecular epidemiology of hepatitis viruses
  
  
• Human Genetics and Mutagenesis
  
  
• Cellular, Molecular and Genetic Diagnosis of cancer and other diseases.
  
  
• DNA vaccine and stem cell research
  
  

Membership/Fellowship of Professional Societies/Associations:

National

• Indian Association for Cancer Research (Life Member).
  
  
• Indian Society of Cell Biology (Life Member).
  
  
• Indian Environmental Mutagen Society (EMSI) (Life Member).
  
  
• Indian Society of Oncology (Annual member).
  
  
• Biotechnology Society of India (Life Member).

International

• International Society of Cell Biology (Member).
  
  
• American Association for Cancer Research , USA (Corresponding Member).
  
  
• The Association of International Union Against Cancer, Geneva . (Fellow).

Professional, Assignments

• As young (bench) scientist representative in the Planning Commission 1990-91.
  
  
• Journal, "Cell and Chromosome Research", Calcutta (Editorial Board Member).
  
  
• Indian Society of Cell Biology - for, 1990-1991, 1993-1994 and 1997-1999 (Executive Council Member).
  
  
• Project Review Committee for Medical Sciences of CSIR, ICMR, DBT
  
  
• Int. J. Human Genetics, 2000 (Editorial Board Member).
  
  
• WHO Expert Member on HPV
  
  
• President, Indian Association for Cancer Research (2006 -2009)
  
  
• Cancer Biomarker, IOS Press, USA (Editorial Board Member)

Awards & Honors:

• Sandoz Oration Award for Cancer Research of ICMR for 1992.
  
  
• American Cancer Society (ACS) International Fellowship, 1994 and Fellow of International Union Against Cancer (UICC) since 1996.
  
  
• Elected as a Fellow of National Academy of Sciences (F.N.A.Sc.), in 1998.
  
  
• Dr.B.C.Roy National Award for 1999 and President’s Medal by Medical Council of India (MCI), New Delhi.
  
  
• Elected as a Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences (F.A.Sc.) in 2001.
  
  
• Recognized as a WHO expert for HPV Vaccine Programme since 2003.
  
  
• Indian Association for Cancer Research Oration Award, 2004.
  
  
• Elected as a Fellow of National Academy of medical Sciences (F.A.M.S.) in 2003.
  
  
• Eleceted as a Fellow on Indian National Science Academy (FNA), 2004.
  
  
• Elected President of Indian Association for Cancer Research (IACR) – 2006-09.
  
  
• Pran Nath Chhutani Oration Award of NAMS, 2006.
  
  
• Ramniclal J Kinariwala Cancer Research Award of Gujarat Cancer Research Institute for 2006.
  
  
• Ranbaxy Research Award by Ranbaxy Research Foundation, 2005.
  
  
• Dr. P.N. Wahi Award – Preventive Oncology of ICMR - 2005
  
  

Foreign Visits(Recent):

1. AS A TEMPORARY ADVISOR IN THE TECHNICAL WORKSHOP : ROLE OF LABORATORY DETECTION OF HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS IN CANCER PREV TO SWITZERLAND FROM 2005-08-15 TO 2005-08-17
   
   
2. PARTICIPATION IN INAUGURAL ASIA-OCEANIA RES. ORGANIZATION ON GENITAL INFECTIONS AND NEOPLASIA (AOGIN) MEETING TO MALAYASIA FROM 2005-07-18 TO 2005-07-20
   
   
3. PARTICIPATION IN THE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ESOPHAGEAL CANCER IN LINXIAN. TO CHINA
   FROM 2005-08-27 TO 2005-08-30
   
   
4. Participation in the Indo-German Collaborative Workshop on Cancer at DKFZ Heldelberg from July 12-14, 2007.

Miscellaneous:

1. Total Number of Research Papers Published : 110
   
   
2. Conference/ Symposium attended And paper presented (Abstracts) : 97
   
   
3. Invited/ Plenary talks delivered : 114
   
   
4. Books – “DNA SCIENCE IN HUMAN HEALTH AND DISEASE” (1st draft ready for Springer Verlag, India )
   
   
5. U.S PATENT (Application No. – 10/444,988 date May 27, 2003 ) : 1
   
   
6. NO. OF Ph.D. AWARDED : 12
   
   
7. NO. OF Ph.D. THESIS SUBMITTED : 3
   
   
8. NO. OF Ph.D. REGISTERED : 9
   
   
9. NO. OF MD THESIS AWARDED/COMPLETED ON MOLECULAR ONCOLOGY /MOLECULAR MEDICINE : 53
   
   
10. NO. OF MD/MS UNDER REGISTRATION : 5
    
    
11. M.Sc. Project Dissertation work guided : 40
    
    
12. DST – Sponsored Women Scientist Working (2003-2006) : 2
    
    
13. CSIR – Pool Scientist (2002-2005) : 1
    
    
14. Imparted Training in Molecular biology and medicine : 109
    
    
15. Organized National Workshops as Course Director for scientists/ students for 2 weeks : 3
    
    
16. DST-sponsored Contact Programme on “Basic Molecular Bioogy Techniques in human Health & Disease” : 1
    
    
17. Extramanual Research Project completed as PI and Co-PI : 13
    
    
18. Indo-foreign Collaborative Projects completed (Indo-German, Indo-UK and Indo-US) : 3

On-going research projects as PI/Coordinator : 14

1. DBT project on Transcriptional regulation of HPV
   
   
2. DBT’s multicentric project on HPV Diagnostic
   
   
3. DBT’s multicentric project on Molecular Markers of Cervical Cancer
   
   
4. CSIR project on Telomerase activity in cervical cancer
   
   
5. DST project on Breast Cancer Genes
   
   
6. ICMR project on Genomics of Cervical Cancer
   
   
7. ICMR’s North-East project on Esophageal Cancer
   
   
8. Institutional Research Projects : 3
   
   
9. Multicentric North-East Project on Tobacco related cancer
   
   
10. Multicentric North-East Project on Pesticide related cancer
    
    
11. DBT Project on Clinical trial of Curcumin as antiHPV molecule.
    
    
12. NACO project on Psychological behavioural study on HIV/AIDS patients.
    
    
13. ICMR Project on Aided Visual and HPV screening in cervical cancer for assessment of its feasibility in rural community.
    
    
14. ICMR multicentric project on comparative study of genetic, clinical and epidemiological factors of breast cancer in rural and urban area of India.