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Trinad Chakraborty, PhD
Professor of Microbiology
Director of the Institute of Medical Microbiology
University Teaching
Hospital of Giessen
Giessen, Germany
Speaker Topic: Genome-Wide Molecular Signatures
in Sepsis
Dr. Chakraborty obtained his B.Sc. with honors from the University
College, London, and his Ph.D. summa cum laude from the Free University
of Berlin, Germany. He received his Habilitation from the University
of Wuerzburg and was Heisenberg Scholar of the German Research
Foundation (DFG). Currently, Dr. Chakraborty is Professor and Director
of the Institute of Medical Microbiology of Justus-Liebig-University,
Giessen, Germany. He is also chairman and coordinator of both the
Infection and Inflammation Network of the German National Genome
Research Network (NGFN) and the Giessen Research Center in Infectious
Diseases (GRID) and is an Executive Member of the Steering Committee
of the NGFN. Dr. Chakraborty is also Vice-Chairman of the Collaborative
Research Initiative (Sonderforschungsbereich SFB 535) on "Adhesion,
Invasion and Intracellular Lifestyles of Pathogens" funded
by the German Research Foundation (DFG). He is co-Founder and Chief
Scientific Advisor to the company TGC Biomics in Mainz, Germany,
which has specialist proprietary technologies in the area of pharmaceutical
proteins, pharmaccines, and protein and gene delivery systems.
Dr. Chakraborty's areas of scientific interest are functional
genomics of host-pathogen interactions, gene targeting, and genomics
of critical illness and sepsis. He served on the editorial boards
of several professional journals and is ad-hoc reviewer for numerous
scientific journals.
Dr. Chakraborty is recipient of a number of Personal (peer-reviewed)
Research Grants from the German Research Foundation (DFG), Federal
Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), German Cancer Research
Council, Humboldt Foundation, World Health Organisation, and European
Union. He is the author and co-author of over 180 publications in
peer-reviewed journals. |