Anirban Basu

About

Anirban Basu is a Senior Scientist and Professor at the National Brain Research Centre, Manesar, Haryana. He earned his Ph.D. in Immunology from the CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, and pursued postdoctoral training in Neuroimmunology at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, USA. Dr. Basu has mentored fourteen master’s students, fifteen Ph.D. students, fourteen postdoctoral fellows, and numerous research trainees. His research focuses on innate immune mechanisms in the healthy and diseased CNS, emphasizing infections and neurodegeneration. His lab is exploring gut–brain axis interactions in neurotropic viral infections and neuroimmune regulation. Based on NBRC research, Dr. Basu and colleagues at King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, successfully conducted a clinical trial using minocycline for Japanese Encephalitis and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome.
He serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Neurochemistry (as handling editor), Journal of Neuroinflammation, and Metabolic Brain Disease. His contributions have been recognized through major national awards, including the National Bioscience Award (2010), Vasvik Award (2011), Rajib Goyal Prize (2012), NASI-Reliance Industries Award (2013), and several ICMR orations. He is a recipient of the Tata Innovation and J.C. Bose Fellowships and is an elected fellow of all three national science academies, the Indian Academy of Neurosciences, and the American Academy of Microbiology. Currently, he serves on the INSA Council and as Vice President of the Indian Academy of Neurosciences. He received the Haryana Vigyan Ratna Award 2024, the state’s highest science honor.

Employment

• National Brain Research Centre
  2004 - 2028

Education

• Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine Post Doctoral Fellow
  1999 - 2004
• Indian Institute of Chemical Biology PhD
  1993 - 1998
• Viswa Bharati University MSc
  1991 - 1993
• Visva-Bharati University BSc
  1988 - 1991

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (107)

• The COVID-19 pandemic: catching up with the cataclysm [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]
  2020 DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.24963.1
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• Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers of Japanese Encephalitis
  F1000Research 2015 DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.6801.1
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• Chandipura virus perturbs cholesterol homeostasis leading to neuronal apoptosis
  Journal of Neurochemistry 2015 DOI: 10.1111/jnc.13208
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• Graph theoretic network analysis reveals protein pathways underlying cell death following neurotropic viral infection
  Scientific Reports 2015 DOI: 10.1038/srep14438
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• HSP70 mediates survival in apoptotic cells—Boolean network prediction and experimental validation
  Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience 2015 DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2015.00319
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• RIG-I knockdown impedes neurogenesis in a murine model of Japanese encephalitis
  Cell Biology International 2015 DOI: 10.1002/cbin.10354
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• Systemic Staphylococcus aureus infection in restraint stressed mice modulates impaired immune response resulting in improved behavioral activities
  Journal of Neuroimmunology 2015 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2015.09.003
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• miR-146a suppresses cellular immune response during Japanese encephalitis virus JaOArS982 strain infection in human microglial cells
  Journal of Neuroinflammation 2015 DOI: 10.1186/s12974-015-0249-0
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• Acute exposure to lead acetate activates microglia and induces subsequent bystander neuronal death via caspase-3 activation
  NeuroToxicology 2014 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuro.2014.02.002
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• Cellular therapy by allogeneic macrophages against visceral leishmaniasis: Role of TNF-α
  Cellular Immunology 2014 DOI: 10.1016/j.cellimm.2014.06.001
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