Professor, Center for Liver Research,
Department of Gastroenterology,
Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research
244, Acharya J.C. Bose Road
Kolkata - 700020; India
Phone : 91 33 22235435
Fax : 91 33 22236383
Email : asantra2000@yahoo.co.in

Academic Profile
M.Sc., Ph.D

Research experience

  • 1982 - 1984 :  Research Associate,  Division  of  Pharmacology,  Organon Research  Center, Kolkata
  • 1984 - 1990 : Biochemist, Infectious Diseases Hospital, Kolkata
  • 1990 – 2006 Feb : Biochemist, Deptt. of Gastroenterology,  I.P.G.M.E & R, Kolkata
  • 1994 – 2006 Feb : In-charge, Gastroenterology and Trace Element Laboratory, Deptt. of Gastroenterology, IPGME&R
  • 2006 – Till date : Professor, Center for Liver Research, School of Digestive & Liver Diseases; I.P.G.M.E & R, Kolkata

Research Interest
Liver injury at cellular and molecular level; Cross talk between hepatocytes and other non parenchymal cells of the liver; Hepatic fibrosis and its reversal.

Experience in Foreign University

  1. School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A.
  2. School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
  3. Genetic Engineering Cell Culture and Gene Therapy Core Laboratory.  Marion Bessin Liver Research Center. Jack and Pearl Resnic Campus. Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx,  New York, USA.
  4. Liver Centre at Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA.
  5. Liver Laboratory of Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA.
Some important Awards:
  • 2013 : 1st Poster Prize award from Falk Symposium 191 held in London, Great Britain
  • 2011 : ICMR International Fellowship for Senior Bio-Medical Scientist
  • 2006 : Travel grant from DST, Govt. of India to attend Falk Foundation symposium at Freiburg, Germany
  • 2004 : Best paper award at the 14th Biennial Conference of the Asian Pacific  Association for the Study of the Liver
  • 2004 : Delivered Abbott Oration at the annual conference of Indian Society of Gastroenterology at Jaipur
  • 2003 : Best paper award on Basic Science at the annual conference of Indian Society of Gastroenterology
  • 2002 : Best paper award on Basic Science at annual conference of Indian  Association for the study of the liver Diseases
  • 1998 :  J. Mitra Memorial award from Indian J Gastroenterlogy for the best original research paper published in the journal
  • 1994 : Best paper award on Basic Science at annual conference of Indian  Association for the study of the liver Diseases

Invited Lectures

  • 2006 : Delivered Guest lecture at Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
  • 2005 : Delivered Guest lecture at 92nd Indian Science Congress at Ahemedabad
  • 1999 : Delivered Guest lecture at School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A.
Publications
  1. Das K, Sarkar R, Ahmed1 M Sk , Mridha AR, Mukherjee PS, Das K, Dhali GK, Santra A, Chowdhury A (2012) Normal’ liver stiffness measure (LSM) values are higher in both lean and obese individuals: a population-based study from a developing country, Hepatology, 55: 584-593
  2. Ghatak S, Biswas A, Gopal Krishna Dhali GK, Chowdhury A, Boyer JL, Santra A (2011) Oxidative stress and hepatic stellate cell activation are key events in arsenic induced liver fibrosis in mice. Toxicology & Applied Pharmacology, 251:59 – 69.
  3. Das K, Das K, Mukherjee PS, Ghosh A, Ghosh S, Mridha AR, Dhibar T, Bhattacharya B, Bhattacharya D, Manna B, Dhali GK, Santra A, Chowdhury A  (2010) Nonobese population in a developing country has a high prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver and significant liver disease. Hepatology. 51: 1593 – 1602.
  4. Santra A, Chowdhury A, Ghatak S, Biswas A, Dhali GK. (2007) Arsenic induces apoptosis in mouse lier is mitochondria dependent and is abrogated by N-acetylcysteine. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 220: 146 – 155.
  5. Chowdhury A, Santra A, Bhattacharya K, Ghatak S, Saha RD, Dhali GK (2006) Mitochondrial oxidative stress and permeability transition in Isoniazid and Rifampicin induced liver injury in mice  Journal of Hepatology 45: 117 – 126.
  6. Farheen S, Sengupta S, Santra A, Pal S, Dhali GK, Chakravorty M, Majumder PP, Chowdhury A. (2006)  Gilbert’s syndrome: High frequency of the (TA)TAA Allele in India and its interaction with a novel CAT insertion in the promoter of the gene for bilirubin UDP-glucuronosyltransferase 1 (UGT1A1). World J Gastroenterol 12: 2269 – 2275.
  7. Chowdhury A, Santra A, Chakravorty R, Banerji A, Pal S, Dhali GK, Datta S, Banerji S, Manna B, Roy Chowdhury S, Bhattacharya SK, Guha Mazumder DN (2005) Community based epidemiology of Hepatitis B virus Infection in West Bengal, India: Prevalence of HBeAg negative infection and associated viral variants. J Gastroenterol Hepatol 20: 1712 – 1720.
  8. Das S, Santra A, Lahiri S, Guha Mazumder DN (2005) Implications of oxidative stress and hepatic cytokine (TNF-a and IL-6) response in the pathogenesis of hepatic collagenesis in chronic arsenic toxicity. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology 204: 18-26.
  9. Chowdhury A, Santra A, Chaudhuri S, Dhali G.K., Chaudhuri S, Maity SG, Naik TK, Bhattacharya SK, Guha Mazumder DN. (2003) Hepatitis C virus infection in general population: A rural community based study in West Bengal, India. Hepatology 37: 802 – 809.
  10. Santra A, Bhattacharya T, Chowdhury A, Ghosh A, Ghosh N, Chatterjee BP, Guha Mazumder DN. (2001) Serodiagnosis of Ascariasis with specific IgG4 antibody and and its use in an epidemiological study. Trans. Roy. Soc Trop Med Hyg. 95: 289 – 292.
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