Koushik Chattopadhyay

Koushik Chattopadhyay
Researcher at University of Pittsburgh
Doctor of Philosophy (Human Genetics), USA

Biography

Chattopadhyay after completing his Masters in Biotechnology from India moved to University of Cape Town in Cape Town, South Africa to pursue his Ph.D. in human genetics, cancer biology and infectious diseases. He completed his Ph.D. in 2010 and worked as a researcher at Stellenbosch University and University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) on neurogenetics, pharmacogenetics and extremophiles. After working briefly as a faculty member in genetics at University of KwaZulu-Natal he moved to the USA. Currently he is a researcher at University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, USA. His expertise is in molecular genetics. He has published several papers in reputed journals and also on the editorial board for several journals.