Biography:
Koustav Sarkar is a Research Associate Professor in Biotechnology at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai, India having earned his PhD at age 28 from Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute/Jadavpur University, Kolkata, india. With 24 years of research experience including a PhD and three postdocs from different universities of USA, he has published 89 high-impact papers and presented at over 100 conferences. His key contributions include isolating immunomodulatory neem leaf glycoprotein with cancer-preventive functions (patent #259434, granted 2014) and discovering WASp's novel nuclear role in Th1 differentiation via epigenetic regulation of the T-BET promoter. He currently studies epigenetic mechanisms in lung cancer T helper cells associated with COPD.
Title : From Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) to Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC): T helper cell epigenetic modifications and cancer risk