Contact Details
Associate Professor,
Department of Biological Sciences,
Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences (BITS),
Pilani Campus, Room No: 3277-R, FD-III,
Pilani, Rajasthan 333 031.
Project Director, BITS BioCyTiH Foundation (https://biocytih.co.in/project-directors/)
Email: syamantak.majumder@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in
Phone: +91 159651-5693
Education
PhD (Cell and Vascular Biology) 2011 Anna University, Chennai, India
MSc (Microbiology) 2006 Devi Ahilya University, Indore, India
BSc (Microbiology) 2004 Calcutta University, Kolkata, India
Professional Experiences
Associate Professor BITS-Pilani, Pilani Campus (June, 2021 to till date)
Assistant Professor BITS-Pilani, Pilani Campus (July, 2017 to May, 2021)
CDA-Post Doctoral Fellow St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada (2015 to 2017)
Post Doctoral Fellow St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada (2014 to 2015)
Post Doctoral Fellow University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA (2011-2014)
Visiting Research Fellow University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland (2 months, 2010)
Project Associate Anna University, Chennai, India (6 months, 2006)
Awards and Fellowships
1. EMBO Short-Term Fellowship to visit Prof. Nanagaku’s Lab, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan 2020-2021 (declined due to COVID-19 pandemic)
2. Banting & Best Diabetes Center (BBDC) Trainee Travel Award from BBDC, Canada (Declined, 2016)
3. Post Doctoral Fellowship from Canadian Diabetes Association (Diabetes Canada), Canada (Awarded for 2015-2018, Availed until June, 2017)
4. Post Doctoral Fellowship from BBDC, Canada (Declined, 2015-2016)
5. Won a prize for presenting a poster at Scientific Advisory Board Meeting, Aab-CVRI, University of Rochester, USA (2012)
6. ATVB 2012 Travel Award for Young Investigators from American Heart Association, USA (2012)
7. Wood-Whelan Research Fellowship from IUBMB (2010)
8. The Best Poster Award at The Society of Free Radical Research (SFRR), Hyderabad, India (2010)
Reviewer For
1. Nature Communication (Nature Publishing Group).
2. Kidney International (official Journal of International Society of Nephrology)
3. Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports (Elsevier), Certified as "Recognized Reviewer" by Elsevier.
4. Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity (Hindawi).
5. American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology (American Physiology Society).
6. Frontiers in Pharmacology (Frontier Press).
7. Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research (BMC)
8. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology (Elsevier), Certified as "Recognized Reviewer" by Elsevier.
9. Frontiers in Space Technology (Microgravity theme) Invited Review Editor.
10. Endocrinology (Oxford Academic Journals)
About the Faculty
Dr. Majumder received his PhD from Anna University, Chennai, India (2007-2011) in field of Cell and Vascular Biology and moved to University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA as a Post Doctoral Fellow (2011-2014) followed by another Post Doctoral Training at St Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada (2014-2017). His research work during his graduate studies under Dr. Suvro Chatterjee at Anna University was aimed towards understating the role of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) in angiogenesis specially looking at how modulation of nitric oxide signaling could affect angiogenesis during different diseases. Dr. Majumder’s first Post Doctoral Research work under Dr. Bradford C Berk and Dr. Jinjiang Pang at University of Rochester demonstrated how G-protein coupled receptor 2 interacting protein 1 (GIT1) is required for directional migration of endothelial cells towards stimuli to promote tumor angiogenesis. His work also demonstrated a key function of GIT1 in regulating Dll4-Notch1 feedback loop in regulating developmental sprouting angiogenesis. Next, Dr. Majumder moved to Dr. Andrew Advani's lab at St Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto and started looking at the epigenetics of podocyte in the development of chronic kidney diseases (CKD) specially studying the role of a repressive histone methylation mark in development and progression of CKD. He also identified a long non coding RNA (lncRNA) that is elevated in podocyte of diabetic kidney and contributes to the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy. Dr. Majumder joined BITS-Pilani as an Assistant Professor in Department of Biological Sciences on July 25, 2017.
Research Opportunities
Opportunities are currently available for highly motivated Ph.D and Post-doctoral Fellows to work on experimental research in the field of endothelial cell biology, epigenetics, cardiovascular diseases, kidney diseases and vascular biology.
Interested candidates are requested to send their CV at syamantak.majumder@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in