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. He completed PhD in Genetics Lab, Department of Zoology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in 1998. Then he was a DBT postdoctoral fellow at CCMB, Hyderabad and further postdoctoral training at Crump Institute of Molecular Imaging, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, USA. He has served as a senior researcher in MIPS program established at Dept. of Radiology, Stanford Univ., USA. In 2009, he joined ACTREC as a research faculty and has contributed later in establishing the optical imaging core facility at ACTREC. 

Dr. De’s laboratory is primarily engaged in multidisciplinary 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 100 research articles, reviews, book chapters and Editorials. He holds multiple US and Indian patents, and have filed six Indian patent applications in the last five years. He has experience in leading both academic basic research projects as well as academia-industry collaborative projects.

His favorite topics for teaching and research are gene regulatory mechanisms, protein-protein interaction, in vivo molecular imaging applications, and nanomedicine. He has immensely contribute in this field of live cell BRET imaging for its expansion and application in diverse areas of disease biology. 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 option of target specific cancer drug molecules.

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