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| name = Amitabha Mukhopadhyay<br />
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1959|1|5}}<br />
| birth_place = [[West Bengal]], India<br />
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| fields = {{ublist | [[Biology]] }}<br />
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[National Institute of Immunology, India|National Institute of Immunology]] | [[Washington University in St. Louis]] | [[Cornell University]] }}<br />
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[University of Calcutta]] | [[Jadavpur University]] | [[Institute of Microbial Technology]] }}<br />
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| known_for = Studies on host-pathogens interaction and drug discovery<br />
| awards = {{ublist| 2000&nbsp;[[National Bioscience Award for Career Development|N-BIOS Prize]] | 2002&nbsp;[[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] }}<br />
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'''Amitabha Mukhopadhyay''' (born 5 February 1959) is an Indian cell biologist and a professor at the [[National Institute of Immunology, India|National Institute of Immunology]].<ref name="Faculty Profile - Mukhopadhyay">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nii.res.in/research/amitabha-mukhopadhyay |title=Faculty Profile - Mukhopadhyay |date=2017-11-25 |website=National Institute of Immunology, India |access-date=2017-11-25 |archive-date=1 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201034316/http://www.nii.res.in/research/amitabha-mukhopadhyay |url-status=dead }}</ref> He is known for his studies on host-pathogens interaction and drug discovery and is an elected fellow of the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]],<ref name="Fellow profile">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Mukhopadhyay,_Dr_Amitabha |title=Fellow profile |date=2017-11-12 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |access-date=2017-11-12}}</ref> and the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]].<ref name="NASI fellows">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=M |title=NASI fellows |date=2017-11-12 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India |access-date=2017-11-12 |archive-date=27 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101227133632/http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=M |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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Mukhopadhyay, an alumnus of the [[University of Calcutta]] from where he earned an MSc, secured a Ph.D. from [[Jadavpur University]] after doing his research at the [[Institute of Microbial Technology]].<ref name=" Faculty Profile - Mukhopadhyay" /> Subsequently, he joined the [[National Institute of Immunology, India]] where he holds the position of a professor. He also serves as a visiting scientist at [[Washington University School of Medicine]], and [[Weill Cornell Medicine]]. He has carried out research on the host-parasite interactions of [[Salmonella]] and [[Leishmania]], two microbial [[pathogens]].<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=198 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2017-10-21 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=2017-10-21}}</ref> He is reported to have identified the survival mechanisms of salmonella against host [[macrophages]] and his work has assisted in widening the understanding of hemoglobin [[endocytosis]] in Leishmania, thus assisting in exploring new drug targets for diseases such as [[typhoid fever]] and [[kala azar]]. His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles<ref name=" On ResearchGate">{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/39955097_Amitabha_Mukhopadhyay |title=On ResearchGate |date=2017-11-23 |access-date=2017-11-23}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} and the online repository of scientific articles of the Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 24 of them.<ref name="Browse by Fellow">{{Cite web |url=https://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Mukhopadhyay=3AAmitabha=3A=3A.html |title=Browse by Fellow |date=2017-11-21 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |access-date=2017-11-21}}</ref><br />
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Mukhopadhyay is a recipient of the [[National Bioscience Award for Career Development]] of the [[Department of Biotechnology]] in 2000.<ref name=" Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development">{{Cite web |url=http://dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/list_of_bioscience_awardees.pdf |title=Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development |date=2016 |publisher=Department of Biotechnology |access-date=2017-11-20 |archive-date=4 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180304191331/http://dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/list_of_bioscience_awardees.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biological sciences in 2002.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx |title=View Bhatnagar Awardees |date=2017-11-11 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=2017-11-11}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Long link - please select award year to see details}}<br />
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== Selected bibliography ==<br />
[[File:Leishmaniasis life cycle diagram en.svg|thumb|235px|Leishmaniasis (life cycle)]]<br />
* {{Cite journal |author1=Srividya, S. |author2=Roy, R. P. |author3=Basu, S. K. |author4=Mukhopadhyay, A. |title=Scavenger receptor-mediated delivery of muramyl dipeptide activates antitumor efficacy of macrophages by enhanced secretion of tumor-suppressive cytokines |journal=Journal of Leukocyte Biology |date=2000 |volume=67 |issue=5 |pages=683–690 |doi=10.1016/0006-2952(93)90502-N|pmid=8373443 }}<br />
* {{Cite journal |author1=Mukherjee, Konark |author2=Parashuraman, Seetharaman |author3=Raje, Manoj |author4=Mukhopadhyay, Amitabha |title=Sope acts as an Rab5-specific nucleotide exchange factor and recruits non-prenylated Rab5 on Salmonella-containing phagosomes to promote fusion with early endosomes |journal=Journal of Biological Chemistry |date=2001 |volume=276 |issue=26 |pages=23607–23615 |doi=10.1074/jbc.M101034200|pmid=11316807 |doi-access=free }}<br />
* {{Cite journal |author1=Singh, B. Sudha |author2=Tandon, Ruchi |author3=Krishnamurthy, Ganga |author4=Vikram, Rajagopal |author5=Sharma, Nimisha |author6=Basu, K. Sandip |author7=Mukhopadhyay, Amitabha |title=Rab5-mediated endosome–endosome fusion regulates hemoglobin endocytosis in Leishmania donovani |journal=The EMBO Journal |date=2003 |volume=22 |issue=21 |pages=5712–5722 |doi=10.1093/emboj/cdg557|pmid=14592970 |pmc=275414 }}<br />
* {{Cite journal |author1=Patel, Nitin |author2=Singh, Sudha B. |author3=Basu, Sandip K. |author4=Mukhopadhyay, Amitabha |title=Leishmania requires Rab7-mediated degradation of endocytosed hemoglobin for their growth |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |date=2008 |volume=105 |issue=10 |pages=3980–3985 |doi=10.1073/pnas.0800404105|pmid=18319337 |pmc=2268841 |bibcode=2008PNAS..105.3980P |doi-access=free }}<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Plasmodium falciparum]]<br />
* [[Leishmaniasis]]<br />
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* {{Cite web |url=https://www.mpikg.mpg.de/events/3539/5625660 |title=Indo-German Workshop on "Chemical Biology of Infectious Diseases" |date=2014 |website=Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces |access-date=2017-11-25}}<br />
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