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Samit Chattopadhyay

Senior Professor

Epigenetics, Gene regulation in metastatic cancers and proliferative immune cells, chromatin remodeling
C-211, Department of Biological Sciences, BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus, Zuarinagar, Goa 403726

Ongoing Projects

  • Project Director of Bio-CPS/ BioCyTIH (for technology innovations) from DST with total amount of 125 cores (2022-2026). Participated with two major projects for detection of oral cancer and peptide based therapies of Covid 19. . The project is undertaken at the BITS-Pilani, ByCyTiH multi-institutional mega project. My job is to overall investigate and monitor the biological interventions for human diseases (total number of projects are 22). Received 6 government funds total of 5 crores (PI in 2 projects and Co-PI in 3 projects) (Two of the projects will end in 2027).
  • Taken part as the Institution Director (CSIR-IICB, Kolkata) for a Systems Medicine Cluster, Eastern Zone from Department of Biotechnology (DBT). The total sanctioned amount was 145 corers for five other institutes. May 2017- June, 2021. The project was on detection of possible markers and therapies for oral and cervical cancers, which is now continued as a part of BITS-BioCyTIH program.
  • As a continuation, part of this project on the early detection of oral cancer from patient saliva samples is now continued in the Bio-CyTIH. The work is ongoing with Prof. Sanket Goel at the BITS-Pilani, Hyderbad campus.
  • As PI, to initiate and continue the newly sanctioned DBT project on “Transcriptional Regulation of Telomerase (hTERT) by Chromatin remodeling protein SMAR1” BT/PR30192/BRB/10/1915. The total sanctioned amount is Rs 90 lakhs with One RA and one SRF. 2024-2027.