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Abhimanyu Thakur

City University of Hong Kong, Birla Institute of Technology, BCDA College of Pharmacy and Technology

ORCID iD 0000-0002-0846-0998
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Dr. Thakur obtained his B.Pharm. (2009-13) from the B.C.D.A. College of Pharmacy & Technology (affiliated to West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata, India), and M.Pharm. (2013-15) from the Department of Pharm. Sce & Tech., Birla Institute of Technology (BIT) Mesra, Ranchi, India. In his Master's thesis, he worked on "Bioequivalence study of Abiraterone acetate in Prostate Cancer patients" (Advisors: Dr. Sugato Banerjee and Dr. Rajeev Patil). In addition, he studied Drug Discovery, Development Commercialization (University of California, San Diego).

After working as a Drug Safety Associate at Quintiles Research, he moved to Hong Kong to pusue Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences (2015-2019) at the Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong (CityU), where he investigated the role of glioma-derived exosomes as biomarkers and functional mediators (Advisor: Dr. Youngjin Lee). As one of the key findings, he clearly distinguished tumor derived- exosomes and microvesicles based on their biophysical interaction with gold nano islands (AuNIs). Additionally, he detected glioma specific mutant protein on exosomes by advanced plasmonic biosensor, which can be applicable for liquid biopsy for tracking malignant progression of glioma.

He is the recipient of “All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)”-Graduate Pharmacy Aptitude Test (GPAT, formerly known as GATE) scholarship (2013-15), Hong Kong-University Grant Commission (UGC) PhD scholarship (2015-18), CityU Outstanding Academic Performance Award (2018), CityU-Chow Yei Ching School of Graduate Studies (SGS) Research Tuition Scholarship (2018), Service Appreciation Award by Hong Kong Precision Oncology Society (2018). In addition, he recieved travel grants for the prestigious Global Young Scientist Summit-2018 organized by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and 109th Annual meeting of American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Employment

  • City University of Hong Kong Research Assistant
    2018 - Present

Education

  • City University of Hong Kong PhD in Biomedical Sciences
    2015 - 2019
  • Birla Institute of Technology M.Pharm
    2013 - 2015
  • BCDA College of Pharmacy and Technology B.Pharm
    2009 - 2013

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