Durjoy Majumder, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Physiology
West Bengal State University,
Berunanpukuria, Malikapur,
Barasat, 24 Pgs (N), Kolkata- 700 126
West Bengal, INDIA
Tel: 90515 64663 (Mo)
E-mail: durjoym@ymail.com / durjoysb@gmail.com

Academic Qualification:

1. Ph.D. (2006) from Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (Jadavpur University)
2. M.Sc. (1995) University of Calcutta
3. Award for CSIR-UGC NET Fellowship 2000

• “Transcriptional Regulation of Immune Recognition in Hematological Malignancies.”

• Quantitative understanding of spatio-temporal dynamics during physiological to pathological state transition. This understanding would be utilized in designing of physiologically aligned therapeutic scheme.

1. Dept. of Haematology, School of Tropical Medicine
2. Dept. of Medical Genetics, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences
3. Biophysics & Structural Genomics Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics

• School of Information Technology, Bengal Engineering & Science University

Publications:

1. Majumder D*, Mukherjee A. A passage through systems biology to systems medicine: adoption of middle-out rational approaches towards the understanding of clinical outcome in cancer therapy (Manuscript in communication).
2. Majumder D* (2010). Tumor angiogenesis based analytical model for the assessment of MCT and MTD chemotherapeutic strategies in cancer, Journal of Biological Systems, 18(3): 1-13, (Accepted on 28th Jan, 2010).
3. Mukherjee A, Majumder D* (2010). Dynamical model for the assessment of anti-angiogenic therapy of cancer. Molecular BioSystems , 6:1047-1055 [a journal by Royal Society of Chemistry] (Accepted on 5th Feb, 2010).
4. Bhattacharya S, Majumder D*. An analytical approach for tracking the tumor system dynamics. IEEE – World Congress on Naturally and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2009), Dec 9-11, 2009, Coimbatore, India, NABIC-124, IEEE Catalogue Number: CFP0995H-CDR, ISBN: 978-1-4244-5612-3.
5. Barat S, Das A, Majumder D*. Systems Biology Markup language for cancer system. IEEE – World Congress on Naturally and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2009), Dec 9-11, 2009, Coimbatore, India, NABIC-S-07, IEEE Catalogue Number: CFP0995H-CDR, ISBN: 978-1-4244-5612-3.
6. Majumder D (2009). Medicine can meet with engineering: Informatics at the cross-road, Technorama 58: 7-20. [a journal of Institute of Engineers (India) web: www.ieindia.org], [invited article].
7. Mukherjee S, Majumder D*(2009). Computational molecular docking assessment of hormone receptor adjuvant drugs: Breast cancer as an example, Pathophysiology [Elsevier (www.elsevier.com)], 16 (1): 19-29. (Accepted on 07-December, 2008).
8. Mukherjee A, Majumder D* (2008) Mathematical modelling for the assessment of the effect of drug application delays in metronomic chemotherapy of cancer due to physiological constraints, BioSystems [Elsevier (www.elsevier.com)], 91(1):108-116. (Accepted on 13-August- 2007).
9. Majumder D, Mukherjee A (2007) Mathematical modeling of toxicity related trade-offs in metronomic chemotherapy, IET Systems Biology [www.theiet.org], 1(5): 298-305. (Accepted on 31-July- 2007).
10. Majumder D*, Mukherjee A. Simulation of drug administration delay in metronomic chemotherapy of cancer due to pathophysiological constraints. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Computational Systems Biology, 20-23 July, 2006, Shanghai, China, pp. 68-73 (web address: http://life.fudan.edu.cn/ICCSB/idates.html, July 22, Saturday, Title 4 Systems Biology and Diseases(1) or http://life.fudan.edu.cn/ICCSB/pdf/7.22-1050-Abhik%20Mukherjee.pdf).
11. Majumder D, Banerjee D, Chandra S, Banerjee SK, Chakrabarti A. (2006) Red cell morphology in leukemia, hypoplastic anemia and myelodysplastic syndrome, Pathophysiology [Elsevier (www.elsevier.com)], 13(4):217-225 (Accepted on June 23, 2006).
12. Majumder D*, Mukherjee A. (2006) Pathophysiologically based logistics for the treatment of cancer, Journal of Biological Systems [World Scientific (www.worldscienet.com/jbs/14)], 14(4):631-650. (Accepted on March 31, 2006).
13. Majumder D, Bandyopadhyay D, Chandra S, Mukhopadhayay A, Mukherjee N, Bandyopadyopadhyay SK, Banerjee S. (2005) Analysis of HLA class Ia transcripts in human leukemias, Immunogenetics (Springer), 57:579-589.
14. Majumder D, Banerjee D, Chandra S, Mukherjee N, Banerjee S. (2006) Lack of HLA-E surface expression is due to deficiency of HLA-E transcripts in the malignant hematopoietic cells of leukemic patients, Leukemia Research [Elsevier (www.elsevier.com)], 30:242-245.
15. Mukherjee A, Majumder D, Icbal A. (2006) Exploring the effectiveness of low continuous chemo-bio-therapeutic treatment of cancer through analytical system modelling, Journal of Biological Systems [World Scientific (www.worldscientific.com)], 14(1):1-12.
16. Dutta N, Majumder D, Gupta A, Guha Mazumder DN, Banerjee S. (2005) Analysis of Human Lymphocyte Antigen class I expression in gastric cancer by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction, Human Immunology [Elsevier (www.elsevier.com)], 66:164-169.
17. Law S, Maiti D, Palit A, Majumder D, Basu K, Chaudhuri S, Chaudhuri S. (2001) Facilitation of functional compartmentalization of bone marrow cells in leukemic mice by biological response modifiers: an immunotherapeutic approach, Immunology Letters [Elsevier (www.elsevier.com)], 76:145-152.
18. Dutta Chaudhuri M, Maity D, Palit A, Law S, Majumder D, Chaudhuri S. (1997) Cytotherapeutic approaches in CML patients: Effects of GCSF and CPM in combination, Indian Journal of Hematology & Blood Transfusion, 15 (Suppl. 1): 32.

1. Reviewer of the Journal of Biological Systems
2. Reviewer of the Molecular BioSystems

1. “Ergonomics based decision support system for low back pain in industry workers” by Pradip Maiti submitted to BESU, W.B., for the degree in M.Tech. (Safety & Occupational Health Engineering and awarded in 2010.
2. “An analytical modeling approach towards the understanding of angiogenesis into progress of tumor development” by Sudipta Bhattacharya submitted to BESU, W.B., for the degree in M.Tech. (IT) and awarded in 2009.
3. “Analytical model for the assessment of anti-angiogenic drug in cancer therapy” by Indrajit Pan submitted to BESU, W.B., for the degree in M.Tech. (IT) and awarded in 2009. [Two works has been accepted for publication in IEEE Conferences - Publication: 18, 19].
4. “Comparative analysis of high and low resolution microscopic images” by Manas Chattopadhya submitted to BESU, W.B., for the degree in M.Tech. (IT) and awarded in 2009. [An initial work has been accepted for publication in IEEE Conference - Publication: 20].
5. “Development of algorithm for the analysis of microscopic images” by Arnab Pal submitted to BESU, W.B., for the degree in M.Tech. (IT) and awarded in 2009.
6. “Systems Biology markup language for cancer systems dynamics” by Avishek Das submitted to BESU, W.B., for the degree in M.Tech. (IT) and awarded in 2009 [joint guidance with Prof. Suryasarathi Barat, Director, School of Information Technology, BESU].

Recognitions Received

1. • Research work has been highlighted by Nature INDIA on its issue published on January 28, 2008. web reference: http://www.nature.com/nindia/2008/080128/full/nindia.2008.106.html
   This work has also been reported in National dailies ‘The Telegraph’ on its issue of Monday, May 19, 2008 web reference: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080519/jsp/knowhow/story_9287452.jsp
2. Expertise on Gene Expression is appreciated by Royal Society of Chemistry & Comment on the accepted paper has been cited in the journal of Royal Society of Chemistry web reference: http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/cb/Volume/2008/2/PCR_light_switch.asp