Sankar Ghosh | |
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| Alma mater | Albert Einstein College of Medicine (PhD) Whitehead Institute at MIT (Post-Doctoral Training) Calcutta University (BSc, MSc) |
| Title | Chair, Department of Microbiology & Immunology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center |
| Awards | Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (1991-2004) MERIT Award, National Institutes of Health (2001-2011) AAAI-Pharmigen Investigator Award (2002) Ranbaxy Science Foundation Award in Basic Medical Research (2006) F.W. Alt Award for New Discoveries in Immunology (2008) Outstanding Scientist Award, American Association for Indian Scientists in Cancer Research (2010) Professor J.J. Ghosh Memorial Award, Calcutta University (2011) Distinguished Alumni Award, Albert Einstein College of Medicine (2017) Clarivate Analytics/Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher (1999, 2022) |
| Honours | Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (2007) Member, National Academy of Sciences (2021) Member, National Academy of Medicine (2022) Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2023) |
| Website | https://www.sankarghoshlab.org |
Sankar Ghosh is an Indian-American immunologist, microbiologist, and biochemist, who is the Chair and Silverstein & Hutt Family Professor of the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.[1] Ghosh is best known for his pioneering research on the activation of cellular responses via NF-κB, a transcription factor that plays a critical role in regulating the expression of a large number of genes involved in the mammalian immune system. Ghosh's research led to the first cloning and characterization of NF-κB and IkB proteins, including the demonstration of the role of IkB phosphorylation in the activation of NF-κB.
Over the years, Ghosh's research has been prominently published in numerous leading scientific journals. Ghosh was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2023,[2] to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022,[3] and the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.[4] He previously was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2007 for his "distinguished contributions to the field of immunology, particularly for studies of the NF-kB signaling pathway."[5]
- ^ Immunologist and Microbiologist Sankar Ghosh, Ph.D., to Head Department of Microbiology at Columbia University Medical Center Columbia University Medical Center website.
- ^ "Sankar Ghosh Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences". Department of Microbiology & Immunology. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
- ^ "Sankar Ghosh Elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)". Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
- ^ "Sankar Ghosh Elected to National Academy of Sciences". Columbia University Irving Medical Center. 26 April 2021. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
- ^ "New AAAS Fellows". medicine.yale.edu. Retrieved 3 May 2021.