Subrata Mondal
Commonwealth Fellow
Centre for Misfolding Diseases
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Phone: +91 8011028366
Email: sm2593@cam.ac.uk / subratamondal92@gmail.com
About
Subrata was born and brought up in Kolkata, India. He graduated from Presidency College (affiliated to University of Calcutta) with Bachelor's degree in Chemistry (Honours) before obtaining a Master's degree in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati) in 2015. During this time, he completed a summer internship in the laboratory of Dr. Dulal Senapati (Associate professor, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata) where he received foundational research exposure to functional material and their biomedical applications. This research experience proved to be a transformative one for him as he set his sights on a research career in India. In 2015, he joined the Ph.D. program in IIT Guwahati with Prof. Parameswar K. Iyer to work on the biophysical aspects of Alzheimer's Disease (AD). In this time, he investigated some major biochemical events that trigger onset Alzheimer's Disease. He also developed some novel biocompatible materials having promising anti-Alzheimer activities. A deep interest in AD prompted him to won Commonwealth Scholarship and moved to Prof. Michele Vendruscolo's laboratory at the University of Cambridge. Currently, he is working with Prof. Vendruscolo on the liquid-liquid phase separation(LLPS) of Tau protein associated with AD and other tauopathies.
Education
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B.Sc. (Chem. Honours): Presidency College (University of Calcutta), Kolkata, India
(2010-2013)
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M.Sc. in Chemistry: Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India
(2013-2015)
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Ph.D. in Chemistry: Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India
(2015-2021)
Experiences
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Summer Intern: Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (2014 - 2014)
Regulation of aggregation pattern and morphological transition of silver nanoprisms for selective detection of As(III) in groundwater.
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Masters Project: Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (2015 - 2015)
(2015 - 2015) Tuning aggregation-deaggregation of naphthalimide based supramolecular probes for chemosensing applications.
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Commonwealth Scholar: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (2021 - 2022)
Mechanistic investigation of tau aggregation induced by liquid-liquid phase separation.
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Postdoctoral Fellow: Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (2022 - ongoing)
Design and development of lipid nanoparticle based nanocarrier for anti
cancer drugs.
Awards & Achievements
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Commonwealth Scholarship tenable at University of Cambridge (15 March, 2021)
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Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in 2015
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Merit cum Means Scholarship 2013
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Scored 100% marks in Mathematics in 10+2th level
Awarded by: Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, United Kingdom
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Best award in ‘Covid-19 Grand Challenge’- 2020 (6 May, 2020)
Awarded by: Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
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Best Poster Presentation award at 10th Trilateral Conference on Nanoscience: Energy, Water & Healthcare 2019 held at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Awarded by: Material Research Society, Singapore [23 Nov 2019]
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Travel Grant received to attend MC14 held at Aston University in London
Awarded by: Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt of India
Awarded by: Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Awarded by: West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education [2009]
Awarded by: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur