Dr. De joined ACTREC as a research faculty in the year 2009. His current designation is Principal Investigator and Scientific Officer G and a leading cancer research scientist in India with a focus on Molecular Imaging. After completing PhD in 1998 from Genetics Lab, Department of Zoology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, he joined as a DBT postdoctoral fellow at CCMB, Hyderabad. He obtained further postdoctoral training at Crump Institute of Molecular Imaging, Dept. of Pharmacology, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, USA. He has also served as a Senior Research Scientist in MIPS program established at Dept. of Radiology, Stanford Univ., USA.  

Dr. De’s laboratory is primarily engaged in interdisciplinary research involving pre-clinical molecular imaging, and development of anti-cancer therapeutics including cancer nanomedicine for breast cancer and other major solid tumors. He has published over 120 research articles, reviews, book chapters and Editorials. He holds over a dozen US and Indian patents. He has experience in leading both academic basic research projects as well as academia-industry collaborative projects. One of his pioneering works is the invention of in vivo BRET, which was granted US patent right and was licensed from Stanford University, USA. Very recently the group has designed multiple new BRET pairs and functional reporter sensors, demonstrating use as multiplexed screening platform of target specific cancer drug molecules.

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