Suman Kumar Dhar

Suman Kumar Dhar (born 1968) is an Indian molecular biologist and a professor at the Special Centre for Molecular Medicine of

Returning to India the same year, he joined Jawaharlal Nehru University as an assistant professor at the Special Centre for Molecular Medicine (SCMM) of the university where he rose in ranks to become an associate professor in 2005 and a professor in 2011, finally reaching the position of the chairperson of SCMM in 2011. In

between, he served as a visiting fellow at Harvard Medical School from 2002 to 2003), the

While in the US, Dhar received two grants for his researches, a grant from the National Institutes of Health for studies on emerging infectious diseases (1997–98) and the United States Department of the Army grant for research on breast cancer (2000–03).^[7] He received the Senior International Research Fellowship of the Wellcome Trust in 2005, the tenancy of the fellowship extending to 2010, and on its expiry, he received the Wellcome Trust-DBT Senior Research Fellowship in 2010. In 2006, Dhar received the Swarnajayanthi Fellowship of the Department of Biotechnology (DBT)^[19] and four years later, DBT honored him again with the 2010 National Bioscience Award for Career Development.^[5] He was elected to the Guha Research Conference in 2007 and the next year brought him the Alexander Von Humboldt Fellowship and the Swarnajayanti Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology.^[20]

A member of the American Society for Microbiology, Dhar 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 in 2012.^[6] The National Academy of Sciences, India elected him as a fellow in 2011^[21] and he became a fellow of the Indian National Science Academy and the Indian Academy of Sciences in 2016.^[3][4]

• Anindya Dutta, Suman Kumar Dhar (2001). "Geminin and ORC3N Inhibit Replication of Herpes Viruses, Pamiloma Viruses and Polyoma Viruses" (PDF). Patent No. No. B0801.70253US00. Dhar Suman Kumar.
• Suman Kumar Dhar; Srikanta Dana; Dhaneswar Prusty; Ashraf Dar; Pritam Mukhopadhyay (24 August 2012). "Method of screening anti-plasmodial activity of acriflavin and acriflavin as an anti-malarial agent". Patent No. WO2014030171 A1. Dhar Suman Kumar.

• Vijay Verma; Ajay Kumar; Ram Gopal Nitharwal; Jawed Alam; Asish Kumar Mukhopadhyay; Santanu Dasgupta; Suman Kumar Dhar (December 2014). "Modulation of the enzymatic activities of replicative helicase (DnaB) by interaction with Hp0897: a possible mechanism for helicase loading in Helicobacter pylori". Nucleic Acids Research. 44 (7): 3288–3303.
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• Wohlschlegel JA, Dwyer BT, Dhar SK, Cvetic C, Walter JC, Dutta A (December 2000). "Inhibition of eukaryotic DNA replication by geminin binding to Cdt1". Science. 290 (5500): 2309–12.
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• Wohlschlegel JA, Dhar SK, Prokhorova TA, Dutta A, Walter JC (February 2002). "Xenopus Mcm10 binds to origins of DNA replication after Mcm2-7 and stimulates origin binding of Cdc45". Mol Cell. 9 (2): 233–40.
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• Dhar SK, Yoshida K, Machida Y, Khaira P, Chaudhuri B, Wohlschlegel JA, Leffak M, Yates J, Dutta A (August 2001). "Replication from oriP of Epstein-Barr virus requires human ORC and is inhibited by geminin". Cell. 106 (3): 287–96.
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