Rupsa Basu, M.Sc, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Making a platform to create oncolytic viruses with unprecedented selectivity and efficiency.

Fairfield, New Jersey, Us

Dedicated to: Education and Events of New York Tri-state regionScope: strategic planning around regional educational priorities and virtual/in-person events; coordination/oversight of all region/chapter event types and regional event executionEvents: regional/chapter coordination of all event types and virtual event execution supportManagement and maintenance of global planning calendar, incorporating all regional/chapter events of all types (educational, networking and recruitment) and proactively working to coordinate and avoid event/scheduling conflicts. Annual program planning and coordination.Tracking event stats and revenue to ensure plans and targets are metWork cross-functionally to build relationships with the regional CR team and Marketing team to effectively deliver on event sponsorship and promotion of education and eventsNetworking event innovation brainstorming and coordination to enhance networking opportunities across the region and all chaptersProvide guidance on event planning best practices as needed across the region and chaptersAssignments of dedicated technical support volunteer (or two for more complex events) for each regional/chapter virtual educational event to lead the technical rehearsal and handle all live tech support/platform hosting Education: coordinate educational priorities across the region and develop virtual events to fill educational gaps. Oversight of educational event topics across the region to ensure a robust menu of development opportunities across the full geographyTopic tracking and comparison in global planning calendar to:avoid duplication/competition look for cross-regional opportunities for collaborationlook for existing events that may appeal to AGs/member groups in your regionensure quality in programming offered to membersExecution and planning of virtual events as needed to fill educational/topic gapsEducational trend scoutingConferences: as needed based on regional conference offerings

Fairfield, New Jersey, Us

Representing and the voice of:the marketing and communications function on the chapter board: providing guidance, ensuring chapter compliance with HBA branding standards and marketing policies, aligning and prioritizing cross-functional collaborative activities and reporting functional updates during board meetings.Representing the NY chapter on regional COE meetings, to provide local feedback/initiatives and learn of key regional and HBA Central updatesPlanning and implementing chapter marketing, event promotion, communication and social media goals and plans in support of the region and chapter objectivesBuilding and managing robust committees through recruitment, on-boarding, mentoring and performance management. Ensuring committee members have the tools, resources and training needed for success. Striving to professionally develop the committee members with an eye to leadership potential and succession planning.Committees: Chapter event promotionChapter marketingChapter communicationsSocial media

New York, Ny, Us

- Generated innovative strategies on product development including tailoring needs of infants formula from nutrition only to complete bioactive immunity building nutrition for infants-Responsible for running and leading preclinical in vitro/ in vivo studies aimed at exploring innate specific immune responses, delivering a preclinical data package for validating immunomodulator(s)' properties of infant nutrition ingredients. -Strategizing framework and product development ideas.-Strategy, Design and execution of cell based mechanistic assays.-Validating immunological biomarkers to predict functional properties. -Design, conduct, supervise ex vivo/in vivo experiments & clinical trials internally and/or through external collaboration or CRO research.-Project Management of time constraint and regulatory compliant projects as well as implementation of innovative product development initiatives.

New York, Ny, Us

Helaina is a breastfeeding support company commercializing the world’s first nature identical infant milk. Helaina is a team brought together by the belief that health and developmental outcomes of all infants can be improved through nutritional options closest to breast milk. Helaina is revolutionizing the infant nutrition space by developing a food product meant to uniquely support babies in their earliest stages. Our product is formulated consciously to match the nutritional profile of breast milk. We’re an inclusive brand for all types of parents that need breastfeeding support.

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Also a certified trainer of R&D Society group by Cheeky Scientist Association, certification awarded on successful completion of all exams and training materials for R & D Scientist positions.

Elmsford, Ny, Us

**Led and executed time constraints NIH vaccine development projects from discovery to clinical stages.**Generated a novel dual reporter cell-based neutralization assay and cell-line development for SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19.**Designed and executed development of a robust and cost-effective universal Influenza Vaccine utilizing virus-like particles based approach, assay development and standardization**Spearheaded Product development strategies- design, development and manufacturing along with project management, budget planning and grant writing.**Managed and troubleshooted technical issues, pre-clinical testing and product pipeline strategies**Executed Multigene cloning and multiplex assembly of difficult to clone constructs.

Houghton, Mi, Us

■ Independently designed and formulated efficient, cost effective, thermo-stable bacteriophage virus-like particle based preventive candidate vaccines against Zika Virus (ZIKV) and Chikungunya Virus (CHIKV), using molecular biology, SDS PAGE and viral assays, leading to two research grants of $14,250 and $6000, 2 first author peer reviewed publications featured in media and 2 first author manuscripts in preparation.■ Designed and developed high purity and low cost whole ZIKV and CHIKV envelope peptides and antibodies by affinity purification, to be used for drug discovery and vaccine formulations. This resulted in collaborations and expertise of working in Biosafety Levels: BSL-2 as well as BSL-3 environment by utilizing extensive mammalian cell culture, immunoblotting, biochemical assays, electron & fluorescence microscopy. ■ Demonstrated strong problem solving and analytical skills as well as creative thinking by pioneering a hypothesis about generation of a new platform for vaccine development using thermophilic bacteria, thereby reduced the overall cost of manufacturing and boosted the yield of the drug/vaccines. ■ Partnered in development of a multi-epitope L2 bacteriophage VLPs oral drug to enhance protection against Oral Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Infections in HIV patients, employing Pseudovirus production in mammalian cancer cell culture and testing drug/adjuvant combination strategies, leading to NIH-R15 grant worth $457,197 and 1 manuscript in review. Cancer biology and vaccine developmentHPV infections are associated with a number of malignancies including cervical cancer, genital warts, as well as oropharyngeal cancers. I am interested in: 1) boosting T-cell responses against HPV viral oncogenes. 2) identifying novel ligands that can be used for targeted delivery of cargos to HPV-associated cancer cells.

Houghton, Mi, Us

**Designed coursework, lab work, conducted exams and encouraged students towards future research in the field of medical physiology and microbiology as well as prepared them for a preliminary entry level course to medical career.**Taught courses-Introduction to microbiology and Medical physiology.

Houghton, Mi, Us

**Elucidated the role of brain (pro)renin in salt sensitive hypertension through in-vitro & in-vivo procedures.**Research in the Molecular Physiology Laboratory (MPL) focused on the neurogenic mechanisms of hypertension and associated cardiovascular diseases with particular emphasis on developing novel targets for disease treatment and management.

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**Generated a graphene nanoparticle-based drug delivery system to enhance sensitivity of anti- blood cancer drug, Gleevac® targeting treatment of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML), executing drug screening by cell proliferation/toxicity assays and Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM). **Anti cancer Drug screening and targeted Drug delivery in various cancerous cells. Apart from that designing new molecules for increasing Drug efficacy in cancer.

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**Conducted genotyping and subtyping of Helicobacter pylori strains isolated from different grades of gastric cancer patients, resulting in the study of different virulent factors involved in the cancer progression. **Determined the signal transduction pathways, exploring its correlation with JAK/STAT pathway using extensive cancer cell culture, transfection and immunoblotting.Worked in a Signal Transduction & Stem Cell Signalling lab (Cancer Biology & Inflammatory Diseases division)

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■ Investigated the association of NQO1 C609T polymorphism among pan masala (tobacco) chewers of Kolkata, tea garden workers & Oral Submucous Fibrosis (OSF) Population, a pre-cancerous lesion by performing cellular/molecular techniques which demonstrated its correlation with cell toxicity and DNA damage.■ Counseled the target OSF population against the detrimental effects of tobacco chewing and collected blood/saliva samples for statistical analysis and studied effects through comet assays.Got exposure to various Molecular Biology and Genetics techniques and worked on genetic polymorphisms in oral submucous fibrosis patients

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Gpa 4.0, Biochemistry And Molecular Biology

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Molecular Biology And Genetics

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Zoology/Animal Biology