Dr Arijit Mukhopadhyay

Biography

I have been practicing and teaching science, in the field of human biomedical genomics, for the last 17 years. Currently, I am an academic member of staff in the school of Environment and Life Sciences at the University of Salford, since November 2016. Previously, I have been a staff scientist at CSIR-Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology at New Delhi, India for 9 years where I have supervised several PhD students. I have 53 peer-reviewed well-cited publications (H-index 23) and also serve in the editorial board of multiple international journals. 

In the initial years, I have completed my Bachelors and Master’s in chemistry from my native city, Kolkata, India and then did my PhD in Human Genetics also from the same city. Then I spent 3 years (2004-2007) in Nijmegen, The Netherlands as a Marie-Curie post-doctoral fellow. From 2007 I have been working as a group leader in the area of human genomics.  

Areas of research 

Genetics, Genomics, Human Genetics, Medical Genetics, Disease Genetics.

My primary research interest is studying genome variation and dynamics in human health and disease. Some of the specific interests are:

Genetic basis of glaucoma

Role of non-coding RNA variations in human diseases

Role of somatic variations in normal human brain

Role of somatic variations in neurodegenerative diseases 

Memberships

Editorial board member of Nature Scientific Reports, a Nature group journal

Member of the British Society of Genomic Medicine

Member of the UK and Eire Glaucoma Society

Member of the Human Genome Organization (HUGO)

Member of the American Society of Human Genetics

Life member of the Indian Society of Human Genetics

Member of the Indian Eye Research Group: a chapter of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (IERG-ARVO)