Dr. Abhijit Saha

About

I was born on 12th September 1984 in Assam, India, and completed my early education at Sajani Kanta Higher Secondary School in Barpeta Road, Assam. I earned my B.Sc. degree in 2006 from Madhab Choudhury College (Barpeta), with a major in Chemistry and additional coursework in Physics, Mathematics, and English. In 2008, I obtained an M.Sc. in Chemistry from Gauhati University, after which I joined the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati as a project assistant, working on peptide synthesis under the supervision of Prof. Bhubaneswar Mandal.

In 2015, I received my Ph.D. in Chemical Biology from Kyoto University (Japan), where I conducted research on DNA molecular recognition under the guidance of Prof. Hiroshi Sugiyama. I then pursued postdoctoral research at Institut Curie in Paris, France, focusing on G-quadruplex DNA in the laboratory of Prof. M.-P. Teulade-Fichou. In March 2020, I joined CIC bioGUNE (Biscay, Spain) as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow, expanding my expertise into chemical immunology under the mentorship of Prof. Fernández-Tejada.

Employment

• CIC bioGUNE Postodoctoral Research Scientist
  2022 - 2024
• CIC bioGUNE Marie-Curie postodoctoral Research Scientist
  2020 - 2022
• Institut Curie Post Doctoral Researcher
  2015 - 2018
• Kyoto University Post Doctoral Researcher
  2015 - 2015

Education

• Kyoto University PhD
  2012 - 2015

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (26)

• From molecular mechanisms of glycosphingolipid function to bio-therapeutic applications
  Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 2026 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-026-06186-1
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• Chemical biology tools to interrogate the roles of O-GlcNAc in immunity
  Frontiers in Immunology 2023 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.1089824
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• Advances in chemical probing of protein O-GlcNAc glycosylation: structural role and molecular mechanisms
  Chemical Society Reviews 2021 DOI: 10.1039/D0CS01275K
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• Probing of G-Quadruplex Structures via Ligand-Sensitized Photochemical Reactions in Br U-Substituted DNA.
  Scientific reports 2018 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-34141-z
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• UVA irradiation of BrU-substituted DNA in the presence of Hoechst 33258
  Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry 2018 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2017.11.011
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• Chemical Modification of a Synthetic Small Molecule Boosts Its Biological Efficacy Against Pluripotency Genes in Mouse Fibroblast
  Molecular Recognition of DNA Double Helix 2018 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-8746-2_3
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• Development of a Novel Photochemical Detection Technique for the Analysis of Polyamide-Binding Sites
  Molecular Recognition of DNA Double Helix 2018 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-8746-2_4
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• Examining Cooperative Binding of Sox2 on DC5 Regulatory Element Upon Complex Formation with Pax6 Through Excess Electron Transfer Assay
  Molecular Recognition of DNA Double Helix 2018 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-8746-2_5
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• Molecular Recognition of DNA Double Helix
  Springer Theses 2018 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-8746-2
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• Overview of DNA Minor Groove-Binding Synthetic Small Molecules and Photochemistry of BrU-Substituted DNA
  Molecular Recognition of DNA Double Helix 2018 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-8746-2_1
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