An Autonomous Body under Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India

Faculty and Staff

Dr. Avik Biswas Senior Scientific Officer-II

Department: Cancer Research

Education

Email(s): avik.b29@gmail.com ; avikbiswas@cnci.ac.in

Orcid ID: 0000-0001-8220-8451

Bio:

Dr. Biswas holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Microbiology and Biotechnology respectively.

He further earned his PhD in Biotechnology, followed by Postdoctoral training from USA.


Area of interest:

His group is focused on exploring the molecular basis of the regulation of different genetic/signaling

pathways in both viral and non-viral cancers, while emphasizing protein-protein and protein-RNA

interactions at critical nodes of signaling pathways.

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Positions held

Name of the Institute

1.

Senior Scientific Officer, Grade-II (Ongoing….)

Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute, Kolkata, India.

2.

Research Associate

Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA

3.

Research Associate

The Scripps Research Institute, Florida, USA

4.

Postdoctoral fellow

Tulane University, Louisiana, USA

5.

PhD

ICMR Virus Unit, Kolkata, INDIA

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Name of Award

Awarding Agency

Year

1.

Research Associate fellowship

Saint Louis University, USA.

2017

2.

Research Associate fellowship

The Scripps Research Institute, USA

The Scripps Research Institute Presidential Fellowship Award.

2014

3.

Postdoctoral fellowship

Tulane University, USA

2013

4.

Senior research fellowship

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India, INDIA

2009

(i)                 Funding agency: ICMR, Govt. of India (2025 to 2028) (Role: PI) (Ongoing).

(ii)              Funding agency: DHR-GIA, Govt. of India (2023 to 2026) (Role: Co-PI) (Ongoing).

(iii)             Funding agency: DST-SERB, Govt. of India (2020 to 2022) (Role: PI) (Completed). 

·         Dr. Pieu Adhikary- PDF-ICMR Project.

·         Arpita Kar- UGC-SRF.

·         Abhishek Samanta- DST-SERB Fellow/CNCI Fellow.

·         Sandipan Mukherjee- UGC-SRF

·         Nikita Saha- CSIR-JRF.

[1] Life Member “Indian Association for Cancer Research (IACR)”, Membership ID: 1001.

[2] Life member “Society of Biological Chemists” (SBC), Membership ID: 2875.

[3] “American Society For Microbiology” (ASM) USA, Post-Doctoral member. Membership ID: 57494858.

[4] “American Society for Virology” (ASV), USA, Research Associate Member. 

          For a full list of publications, please visit: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zEWf1ssAAAAJ&hl=en


Most recent publications (last 5 years…)

[1] Ghosh S, Chaudhuri R, Mukherjee M, Samanta A., Saha P, Henneman LRF, Majumdar D, Sengupta MR, Chakraborty A, Maiti B, Ghosh S, Biswas A, Sinha D. Seasonal fluctuations in ambient particulate matter2.5 exposure differentially regulate JAK2/STAT3 signaling in never smoking rural and urban cohorts. Free Radic Biol Med.2026. doi:10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2026.02.006.

[2] Samanta, A., Kar, A., Mukherjee, S., & Biswas, A. (2025). The RNA-binding protein hnRNP E1 regulates p53 and p21 translation via KH1 and KH2 domain interactions with 3' UTR C-rich motifs. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 302(2), 111042.

[3] Kar A, Mukherjee S, Mukherjee S, Biswas A. Ubiquitin: A double-edged sword in hepatitis B virus-induced hepatocellular carcinoma. Virology 599 (2024) 110199.

[4] Paul P, Chattopadhyay S, Kar A, Samanta A, Bhakat S, Paul P, Biswas A, and Barik S. Cancer Microenvironment In the book entitled “Novel Molecular Oncotargets and Nano-Oncotherapeutics” published by the Cambridge Scholars Publication. 2023 (book chapter).

[5] Biswas A and Datta S. Editorial: Origin and evolution of hepatitis viruses, volume II. Front. Microbiol. 2023; 14:1241705. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1241705.

[6] Kar A, Samanta A, Mukherjee S, Barik S, Biswas A. The HBV web: An insight into molecular interactomes between the hepatitis B virus and its host en route to hepatocellular carcinoma. J Med Virol. 2023 doi: 10.1002/jmv.28436.

[7] Mukherjee S, Kar A, Paul P, Dey S, Biswas A, Barik S. In Silico Integration of Transcriptome and Interactome Predicts an ETP-ALL-Specific Transcriptional Footprint that Decodes its Developmental Propensity. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2022 May 13;10:899752. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2022.899752.

[8] Mukherjee S, Kar A, Khatun N, Datta P, Biswas A, Barik S. Familiarity Breeds Strategy: In Silico Untangling of the Molecular Complexity on Course of Autoimmune Liver Disease-to-Hepatocellular Carcinoma Transition Predicts Novel Transcriptional Signatures. Cells. 2021 Jul 29;10 (8):1917.

Students with an excellent academic background and a strong research interest are encouraged to apply for PhD and postdoctoral positions in our team. Interested candidates may send their applications along with relevant documents to us via email.

We would be delighted to receive research supports form individual philanthropists to further advance and strengthen our ongoing research activities.