Shantanu Chowdhury

Shantanu Chowdhury (born 1968) is an Indian structural biologist and a professor at Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.^[1] He is known for developing a mechanism for gene regulation mediated by DNA Secondary-Structure in diverse cellular contexts.^[2] An elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India,^[3] he is a recipient of the National Bioscience Award for Career Development of the Department of Biotechnology in 2010.^[4] The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2012, for his contributions to biological sciences.^[5]

Biography

Shantanu Chowdhury, born on 9 September 1968 in the Indian state of

In 2007, Chowdhury received the Swarnajayanthi Fellowship of the Department of Biotechnology (DBT)[17] and three years later, DBT honored him again with the 2010 National Bioscience Award for Career Development.^[4] The Central Drug Research Institute awarded him the Excellence in Drug Research Award for Life Sciences category in 2011^[18] and he also received the Wellcome Trust-DBT Fellowship the same year.^[19] He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research the next year.^[5] He was also elected as a fellow by the National Academy of Sciences, India in 2012.^[3] Chemical & Engineering News magazine of the American Chemical Society featured his researches twice, in 2007 and in 2009, citing their relevance as future drug targets.^[9]

Selected bibliography

• Thakur RK, Kumar P, Halder K, Verma A, Kar A, Parent JL, Basundra R, Kumar A, Chowdhury S (January 2009). "Metastases suppressor NM23-H2 interaction with G-quadruplex DNA within c-MYC promoter nuclease hypersensitive element induces c-MYC expression". Nucleic Acids Res. 37 (1): 172–83.
  PMID 19033359
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• Halder K, Chowdhury S (December 2007). "Quadruplex-coupled kinetics distinguishes ligand binding between G4 DNA motifs". Biochemistry. 46 (51): 14762–70.
  PMID 18052204
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• Mani P1 Yadav VK, Das SK, Chowdhury S. (2009). "Genome-wide analyses of recombination prone regions predict role of DNA structural motif in recombination". PLOS ONE. 4 (2): e4399.
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• Halder K, Halder R, Chowdhury S (December 2009). "Genome-wide analysis predicts DNA structural motifs as nucleosome exclusion signals". Mol. Biosyst. 5 (12): 1703–12.
  PMID 19587895
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• Verma A, Halder K, Halder R, Yadav VK, Rawal P, Thakur RK, Mohd F, Sharma A, Chowdhury S (September 2008). "Genome-wide computational and expression analyses reveal G-quadruplex DNA motifs as conserved cis-regulatory elements in human and related species". J Med Chem. 51 (18): 5641–9.
  PMID 18767830
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• Rawal P, Kummarasetti VB, Ravindran J, Kumar N, Halder K, Sharma R, Mukerji M, Das SK, Chowdhury S (May 2006). "Genome-wide prediction of G4 DNA as regulatory motifs: role in Escherichia coli global regulation". Genome Res. 16 (5): 644–55.
  PMID 16651665
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• Functional genomics
• NME2
• G-quadruplex

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References

External links

• "Shantanu Chowdhury on Science Open". Author profile. Science Open. 2016. Retrieved 2 November 2016.