Ghanshyam Swarup was born on 1953 and is an Indian molecular biologist, a J C Bose National Fellow and the head of the Ghanshyam Swarup Research Group of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology.
11 Facts About Ghanshyam Swarup
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Ghanshyam Swarup is known for his studies on glaucoma and the discovery of protein tyrosine phosphatase, a new protein influencing the regulation of cell proliferation.
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Ghanshyam Swarup, born on 23 November 1953 in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, graduated in science from Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University and continued his studies there to secure a master's degree before moving to Mumbai to complete his PhD at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
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Ghanshyam Swarup, while working with Stanley Cohen in the US on cellular signaling mechanisms, is reported to have discovered a new nuclear protein tyrosine phosphatase and his subsequent work demonstrated that the protein plays a part in the regulation of cell proliferation.
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Ghanshyam Swarup's studies are known to have assisted in identifying the first cargo for the putative cargo receptors in mammalian cells.
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Ghanshyam Swarup has established a laboratory, Ghanshyam Swarup Group, where his team focuses on researches on protein optineurin and how disease-associated mutation affect humans.
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Ghanshyam Swarup has published several articles detailing his research findings; ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 81 of them.
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Ghanshyam Swarup is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Molecular Signaling and is known to be active in the researches done by others.
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Ghanshyam Swarup has mentored several scholars in their doctoral and post-doctoral researches at his research group in CCMB as well as scholars from other institutions.
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Ghanshyam Swarup, who was elected as a fellow by the National Academy of Sciences, India in 1988, received the Young Scientist Award of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in 1989.
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An elected member of the Guha Research Conference, Ghanshyam Swarup became an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy in 2003.