Dipyaman Ganguly
Born25 October
Baharampur, West Bengal, India
NationalityIndian
Alma mater
Known forStudies on Human Immunology
Awards
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Institutions

Dipyaman Ganguly is an Indian physician-scientist immunologist and cell biologist, currently a Principal Scientist and Swarnajayanthi Fellow at the CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB).[1] He heads the Dendritic Cell Laboratory of IICB, popularly known as the Ganguly Lab, where he hosts several researchers involved in research on regulation of innate Immunity and pathogenesis of inflammatory disorders.[2] 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 for his contributions to Medical Sciences in 2022.

Ganguly graduated in medicine from Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata in 2001 but shifted his focus to biomedical research and joined the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology as a clinical associate.[1] In 2003, he joined Indian Institute of Chemical Biology for doctoral research as a research scholar which earned him his first PhD in 2006. Moving to the US, he carried on his research at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and received another PhD from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.[3] His post-doctoral work was at the Columbia University Medical Center as an SLE Foundation Fellow[4] and on his return to India, he joined IICB where he is currently a Principal Scientist. He is also a Swarnajayanti Fellow of the Department of Science and Technology, and was formerly a Ramanujan Fellow of the Science and Engineering Research Board of the Department of Science and Technology.

Scientific contribution

Research interests of Ganguly lab are exploring the role of dendritic cells in autoreactive inflammatory contexts, deciphering molecular regulation of innate immune response and exploring the role of mechanical cues in immune cells. Researchers from Ganguly Lab recently discovered a novel regulatory module involving the Piezo1 mechanosensors in human T cells, driven by mechanical cues.[5] They also provided the first evidence for involvement of plasmacytoid dendritic cells in obesity and associated metabolic syndrome in humans.[6][7] Previous work by Dipyaman Ganguly led to discovery of the key initiation events in pathogenesis of the skin autoimmunity in Psoriasis,[8] as well as first identification of dying neutrophils as the major source of nuclear antigens in systemic lupus,[9] which was featured in Nature Reviews Key Advances in Medicine for the year 2012. Ganguly lab has also interest in development of new therapies for autoimmune diseases.[10] Ganguly lab also took interest in performing research on immunology of COVID-19 disease and ran a randomized control trial on convalescent plasma therapy.[11]

Awards

The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences, in 2017/18.[12] He is also a recipient of the Merck Young Scientist Award, the CDRI Award for Excellence in Drug Research from CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Swarnajayanthi Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology and the NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Award of the Elsevier.[13] He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Medical Sciences in the year 2022.

Public outreach

Ganguly is an enthusiast for public outreach of science in India,[14][15] an avid stargazer and a public commentator and popular columnist on issues on science and health.[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]

Selected bibliography

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Notes

    References

    1. 1 2 "Profile on SERB" (PDF). Scientific and Engineering Research Board. 27 December 2018. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
    2. ↑ "DC Lab Team - Dendritic Cell Biology Laboratory @ IICB Ganguly Lab". sites.google.com. 27 December 2018. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
    3. ↑ "IICB profile". Indian Institute of Chemical Biology. 27 December 2018. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
    4. ↑ "S.L.E. Lupus Foundation announces new grants to further NYC scientists' leadership in lupus research". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
    5. ↑ Liu, Chinky Shiu Chen; Raychaudhuri, Deblina; Paul, Barnali; Chakrabarty, Yogaditya; Ghosh, Amrit Raj; Rahaman, Oindrila; Talukdar, Arindam; Ganguly, Dipyaman (15 February 2018). "Cutting Edge: Piezo1 Mechanosensors Optimize Human T Cell Activation". The Journal of Immunology. 200 (4): 1255–1260. doi:10.4049/jimmunol.1701118. ISSN 0022-1767. PMID 29330322.
    6. ↑ "Why the obese are prone to diabetes: a protein gives a clue". The Indian Express. 26 September 2016. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
    7. ↑ "Obesity link to diabetes decoded". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
    8. ↑ Ganguly, Dipyaman; Chamilos, Georgios; Lande, Roberto; Gregorio, Josh; Meller, Stephan; Facchinetti, Valeria; Homey, Bernhard; Barrat, Franck J.; Zal, Tomasz (31 August 2009). "Self-RNA–antimicrobial peptide complexes activate human dendritic cells through TLR7 and TLR8". The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 206 (9): 1983–1994. doi:10.1084/jem.20090480. ISSN 0022-1007. PMC 2737167. PMID 19703986.
    9. ↑ Bosch, Xavier (25 August 2011). "Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and the Neutrophil". New England Journal of Medicine. 365 (8): 758–760. doi:10.1056/NEJMcibr1107085. ISSN 0028-4793. PMID 21864171.
    10. ↑ "IICB Scientists Aiming at First-in-Class Drugs for Autoimmune Diseases". BioTech Times. 3 June 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
    11. ↑ Ray, Yogiraj; et al. (2020). "Clinical and immunological benefits of convalescent plasma therapy in severe COVID-19: insights from a single center open label randomized control trial". medRxiv 10.1101/2020.11.25.20237883v1.
    12. ↑ "Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development" (PDF). Department of Biotechnology. 2016. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
    13. ↑ "Scopus Award 2017". southasia.elsevier.com. 27 December 2018. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
    14. ↑ "DIALOGUE - Science, Scientists, and Society". Dialogue. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
    15. ↑ "Are we reaching the 'public' with our public outreach programs?". IndiaBioscience. 13 July 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
    16. ↑ "Coronavirus: the fight & the soldiers".
    17. ↑ "Preparing for long-lasting Covid".
    18. ↑ "One pandemic unmasking another".
    19. ↑ "Will the vaccines protect us from new strains of the novel coronavirus?".
    20. ↑ "More 'strain' on Covid management". 12 January 2021.
    21. ↑ "Slow mutation of the Covid pandemic". 9 February 2021.
    22. ↑ "Pandemic will end up as an endemic".
    23. ↑ "Herd immunity may come before COVID-19 vaccine".
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