Jayati Mookerjee Basu,                               M.Tech., Ph.D. 
                               
                              Senior Scientific Officer, Gr-II  
                           
                         
                                  
         
                                                    
                                                    
                            Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute 
                           
                                                                              
                            Metabolic Regulation 
                           
                                                                              
                            37, S. P. Mukherjee Road 
                           
                                                    
                            Kolkata - 700 026                                 
                           
                                                    
                            West Bengal                                 
                           						  
                                                            
                           
                                                    
                            E-mail: jayatimookerjee.basu@cnci.org.in  
                           
                                                                              
                            Phone: +91-33-24765101, Extn.330 
                           
                                                    
                            Fax: +91-33-4757606  
                           
                  
                          
                               
                           
                          
                            URL:   http://www.cnci.org.in/research/research_main.html#  
                           
                          
                          						  
                              
                           
						  
	                             
                            Positions Held:  
                           
                                                    
                            
                                
                                  Position  
                                  Affiliation  
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                                  Senior Scientific Officer, Gr-II  
                                  Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute, Kolkata, India 
                                  
								  2010-Present 
                                 
                                                                
                                  Post Doctoral Research Associate  
                                  University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 
                                  
								  2009-2009 
                                 
                                                                
                                  Post Doctoral Fellow  
                                  INSERM, France 
                                  
								  2007-2009 
                                 
                                                                
                                  Post Doctoral Fellowship  
                                  Department of Biotechnology, Government of India 
                                  
								  2006-2007 
                                 
                                                            
 
                           
                          
                              
                           
                                                                              
                            Area of Specialization:  
                           
                          
                          
                          
  
     
    Immunology 
   
    
                          
                        
                           
                           
                         
                         
                                                    
                                                    
                          
                             
                           
                                                    
                             Research Summary:  
                           
                                                    
                            
                                                                
                                   
                                  To study the silencing of acquired and innate immune mechanisms in the tumor microenvironment  
                                 
                                                                
                                   
                                  To develop gamma or delta T-cell and NKT cell based vaccinations for different cancers 
                                 
                                                                
                                   
                                  Tumor cell metabolism and modulation of the tumor microenvironment towards development of new therapeutics 
                                 
                                                            
 
                           
                          
                              
                           
                                                    
                            Publications:  
                           
                          
                            
	
		
			
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				Mookerjee, B. , Mookerjee, A., Banerjee, R., Saha, M., Singh, S., Naskar, K., Tripathy, G., Sinha, P. K., Pandey, K., Sundar, S., Bimal, S., Das, P. K., Choudhuri, S. K. and Roy, S.  Inhibition of ABC transporters abolishes antimony resistance in Leishmania Infection. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.  2008.  52, 1080-1093. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Mookerjee, B. , Mookerjee, A., Sen, P., Bhaumik, S., Sen, P., Banerjee, S., Naskar, K., Choudhuri, S. K., Saha, B., Raha, S. and Roy, S.  Sodium antimony gluconate induces generation of reactive oxygen species and nitric oxide via phosphoinositide 3-kinase and mitogen-activated protein kinase activation in Leishmania donovani-infected macrophages. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.  2006.  50, 1788-1797. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Mookerjee, A., Mookerjee, B. , Dutta, P., Majumder, S., Bhattacharyya, S., Biswas, J., Pal, S., Mukherjee, P., Raha, S., Baral, R. N., Das, T., Efferth, T., Sa, G., Roy, S. and Choudhuri, S. K.  Overcoming drug-resistant cancer by a newly developed copper chelate through host-protective cytokine-mediated apoptosis. Clinical Cancer Research : An Official Journal of the American Association For Cancer Research.  2006.  12, 4339-4349. [PubMed]  
		 
	 
	
		
			
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				Chatterjee, S., Mookerjee, A., Basu, J. M. , Chakraborty, P., Ganguly, A., Adhikary, A., Mukhopadhyay, D., Ganguli, S., Banerjee, R., Ashraf, M., Biswas, J., Das, P. K., Sa, G., Chatterjee, M., Das, T. and Choudhuri, S. K.  A novel copper chelate modulates tumor associated macrophages to promote anti-tumor response of T cells. PloS One.  2009.  4, e7048. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Basu, J. M. , Vantourout, P.,  Martinez, L.O., Perret, B., Collet, X., Périgaud, C., Peyrottes, S., Champagne, E. F1-ATPase displays properties characteristic of an antigen presentation molecule for gamma 9 delta2 cells Journal of Immunology. 2010. 
		 
		
			
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				Vanturaut, P., Basu, J. M. , Collet, X., Perret, B., Martin, Davrinche, C., Martinez, L., Payrrotes, S., Champagne, E. Differential behaviour of nucleotidic and non-nucleotidic  phosphoantigens in the context of gamma9 delta2 T-cells.  Journal of Immunology.. 2009, 183, 3848-3857. 
		 
	 
	 
  
                           
                         
                                                
 
                      
                          
                            
                               
                             
                            
                                
                             
                            
                              
                                  
                                     
                                   
                                  
                                                                            
                                        
                                                                                    
                                            Education  
 
                                           
                                                                                    
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                                            M.Sc.                                                    in Physiology, , 				
				 
                                                    University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India,                             1997-1999                                            
 
                                           
                                                                                    
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                                            M.Tech.                                                    in Biotechnology, 				
				 
                                                    Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India,                             1999-2001                                            
 
                                           
                                                                                    
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                                            Ph.D.                                                    in Immunology and Infectous diseases, 				
				 
                                                    Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India,                             2001-2006