1. F-205, Srinivasa Ramanujam Block,
Vellore Institute of Technology,
Vellore, Tamilnadu,
India- 632014.
Phone: 91-9597013091
E-mail: raunak81@gmail.com.
Raunak Kumar Das
Objective:
To be a part of a research and development organization in the field of interdisciplinary
medical research and be a vital cog in its developmental operations.
Aim:
Performing multimodal structural, cellular and molecular biology research to address various
medical problems in the field of theranostics.
Current Position:
Assistant Professor (Research), School of BioSciences and Technology, Vellore Institute of
Technology, Vellore, Tamilnadu, India- 632014.
Research Experiences:
 Structural and molecular profiling of Oral Pre-cancers to unearth novel biomarkers for
early detection
 Optimization and validation of various life science imaging techniques and systems.
 Multi-modal characterization of wounds.
 Isolation and characterization of viruses.
 Culture and maintenance and storage of various mammalian and insect cell lines
 Molecular biology and Genomics
 Proteomics
 Non-invasive imaging of tissues
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2. Educational Qualifications:
Degree /
Course
Name of the University / Institution Class
Obtained
PhD
School of Medical Science and Technology, Indian Institute
of Technology, Kharagpur.
January 2008- July 2013
Thesis Tile: ‘Epithelial Molecular Attributes for Evaluating
Malignant Potentiality of Oral Sub-mucous Fibrosis.’
Degree
awarded on
27th
July,
2013
M.Sc. Applied
Microbiology
Hindustan College of Arts and Science , Chennai, University
of Madras. June 2004 - June 2006
1st
Class
B.Sc.
Zoology(Hons
)
Asutosh College - Calcutta, University of Calcutta.
June 2000 - April 2004
2nd
Class
HSC Bokaro Ispat Senior Secondary School-9E, CBSE, May 2000. 1st
Class
Matriculation
Examination
St. Xavier's Scool, Bokaro Steel City, Jharkhand, ICSE, May
1998.
1st
Class
Previous Employments:
 Research Assistant for the project ‘Multi-site monitoring of Human Influenza viruses
in India.’ funded by WHO-Geneva, CDC-Atlanta and ICMR-New Delhi at the King
Institute of Preventive Medicine, Chennai from Jan 2007-Jan 2008.
 Reporter for the evening national daily newspaper ‘News Today’ Chennai from July
2006- Jan 2007.
Project:
As a part of my curriculum, I have completed my project at King Institute of Preventive
Medicine (KIPM), Gunidy, Chennai – 600 032
Period: Dec 2005-April 2006.
Project title: “Sensitivity of LLC-MK2, VERO and MDCK cell lines in detecting or
isolation of Influenza Viruses”.
Achievement:
 Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) conducted by the Indian
Institute of Technologies (IIT’s) and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in 2007.
Awards:
 Best outgoing student for the Academic year 2004-2006, Hindustan College of Arts
and Science, Padur, Chennai.
 Deans’ Travel grant award from IIT Kharagpur, for oral presentation at ICCMB-2,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2010.
 Travel grant from Texas Instrument, Bangalore, for poster presentation at LISSA,
NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA, 2011.
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3. Reviewer:
 Oral Oncology, Elsevier.
 Tumor Biology, Springer.
 Biotechnology Journal, Wiley.
 Journal of Cranio-Maxillary Diseases, Wolters Kluwer Health.
Technical Knowledge:
• Tissue Culture (especially Mammalian Cell Lines) and Handling Viruses.
• Isolation of viruses from clinical specimens and their detection and titration by HA,
HAI.
• Real Time PCR.
• Histological techniques
• Immunohistochemistry
• Microscopy (Light, Phase Contrast, DIC, Stereo-Zoom, Fluorescence, Semi-confocal,
Confocal, Scanning Electron and Atomic Force)
• Optical Coherence Tomography of tissues
• Blotting techniques and electrophoresis of DNA and proteins.
• Immuno-Chromatography
• Various Chromatographic Techniques
• ELISA
• IFA
• Basic Microbiological Techniques
Additional Qualifications:
 Diploma in ‘Ettan DIGE Basic Course’ by GE Healthcare at John F. Welch
Technology Centre, Bangalore November 2009.
 Underwent NIV-CDC personnel training on isolation and detection of Influenza
viruses at the Influenza (Department), National Institute of Virology, Pune,
January, 2007.
 Participated in a three day workshop on ‘Microarray Based Cytogenetics’ at
Spinco Genomics Laboratory, Chennai, October, 2010.
 Completed a computer course in Office Automation at Institute of Science and
Information Technology, Bokaro, May-June 2005.
Journal Publications (13):
1. Raunak Kumar Das, Mousumi Pal, Ananya Barui, Ranjan Rashmi Paul, Chandan
Chakraborty, Ajoy Kumar Ray, Sanghamitra Sengupta, and Jyotirmoy Chatterjee.
Assessment of malignant potential of oral submucous fibrosis through evaluation of
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4. p63, E-cadherin and CD105 expression. J. Clin. Pathol. 2010;63:894-899. doi: 10.
1136/jcp. 2010.078964. (BMJ group)
2. Das, R. K., Anura A., Pal, M., Bag, S., Majumdar, S., Barui, A., Paul, R. R.,
Chakraborty, C., Ray, A. K., Sengupta, S. and Chatterjee J. (2013) Epithelio-
mesenchymal Transitional Attributes in Oral Sub-mucous, Experimental and
Molecular Pathology, 2013, 59, 259-269.
3. Raunak Kumar Das, Mousumi Pal, Ananya Barui, Ranjan Rashmi Paul, Chandan
Chakraborty, Ajoy Kumar Ray, Jyotirmoy Chatterjee. ApoTome to visualize E-
cadherin and p63 expression in oral pre-cancer. Biotechnology Journal. Wiley. 2012,
7, 602-607.
4. Anura, A., Conjeti, S., Das, R. K., Pal, M., Bag, S., Paul, R. R., Ray, A K.,
Chatterjee, J. Computer-Aided Molecular Pathology Interpretation in Exploring
Prospective Markers for Oral Sub-mucous Fibrosis Progression, Head and Neck,
Accepted, 2014.
5. Anji Anura, Raunak Kumar Das, Mousumi Pal, Ranjan Rashmi Paul, Ajoy K. Ray,
Jyotirmoy Chatterjee. Correlated analysis of semi-quantitative immunohistochemical
features of E-cadherin, VEGF and CD105 in assessing malignant potentiality of oral
submucous fibrosis, Pathology – Research and Practice, 2014, 210, 1054–1063.
6. Ananya Barui, Provas Banerjee, Raunak Kumar Das, Shyamal Kumar Basu, S.
Dhara and Jyotirmoy Chatterjee. Immunohistochemical Evaluation of p63, E-
Cadherin, Collagen I and III Expression in Lower Limb Wound Healing under Honey.
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicin. Volume 2011, Article ID
239864, 8 pages, doi:10.1155/2011/239864.
7. Ananya Barui, Provas Banerjee, Rusha Patra, Raunak Kumar Das, Santanu Dhara,
P.K. Dutta, and Jyotirmoy Chatterjee. Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography
of Lower Limb Wound Healing with Histo-pathological Correlation. Journal of
Biomedical Optics. 2011; (Vol. 16, No. 2).
8. Krishna Dalal, Elanchezhiyan D, V. B. Maran, Raunak Kumar Das, Piyush Kumar,
S.P. Singh, Murali Krishna Chilakapati and Jyotirmoy Chatterjee "Optical,
Spectroscopic and Doppler Evaluation of ‘normal’ and ‘abnormal’ Reflexology Areas
in Lumbar Vertebral Pathology - a Case Study," Case Reports in Medicine, Accepted
2012.
9. Krishna Dalal, Elanchezhiyan D, Raunak Kumar Das, Devjyoti Dalal, Pandey
Ravinder M, Subhamoy Chatterjee, Ashish D Upadhyaya, V. Bharathi Maran and
Jyotirmoy Chatterjee. Non-invasive Characterisation of Foot Reflexology Areas by
Swept Source-Optical Coherence Tomography in Patients with Low Back Pain,
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Accepted, In press.
10. Priti P Maity, Subhamoy Chatterjee, Raunak Kumar Das, Subhalaxmi
Mukhopadhyay, Ashok Maity, Dhrubajyoti Maulik, Ajoy K Ray, Santanu Dhara,
Jyotirmoy Chatterjee, Finding an Optimum Immuno-histochemical Feature Set to
Distinguish Benign Phyllodes from Fibroadenoma, Micron, Elsevier, Accepted. DOI.
10.1016/j.micron.2013.02.004
11. Barui A, Mandal N, Majumder S, Das RK, Sengupta S, Banerjee P, Ray AK,
RoyChaudhuri C, Chatterjee J. Assessment of molecular events during in vitro re-
epithelialization under honey-alginate matrix ambience. Mater Sci Eng C Mater Biol
Appl. 2013, 33(6), 3418-25.
12. Swarnendu Bag, Sailesh Conjeti, Raunak Kumar Das, Mousami Pal, Anji
Anura, Ranjan Rashmi Paul, Ajoy Kumar Ray, Sanghamitra Sengupta, Jyotirmoy
Chatterjee. Computational analysis of p63 + nuclei distribution pattern by graph
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5. theoretic approach in an oral pre-cancer (sub-mucous fibrosis), J Pathol Inform 2013,
4:35.
13. Revathi J, Gunasekaran P, Mohana S, Arunagiri K, Hemlatha K, Sheriff AK, and
Raunak Kumar Das. Surveillance for Influenza in India. Influenza foundation of
India. Volume 1, Issue 2, October 2007.
IEEE, Conference Proceedings full papers (5):
1. Raunak Kumar Das, Vikram Venkatraghavan, Debdoot Sheet, Chandan
Chakraborty, Ajoy Kumar Ray, Jyotirmoy Chatterjee, Mousumi Pal and Ranjan
Rashmi Paul. Evaluation of p63 Expression in Oral Sub-mucous Fibrosis.
International Conference on Systems in Medicine and Biology, 16-18 December,
2010, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
2. Raunak Kumar Das, Ananya Barui, Chandan Chakraborty, Ajoy Kumar Ray,
Jyotirmoy Chatterjee, Mousumi Pal, and Ranjan Rashmi Paul. Low Cost Semi-
Confocal Molecular Imaging with Cold Light Source. IEEE/NIH Life Science
Systems and Applications Workshop, April 7-8, 2011, Bethesda, Mayland, USA.
3. A.Barui, R.K.Das, S.Dhara, J.Chatterjee, R.Dev Das, A.K.Ray, C.RoyChaudhuri.
Simple Cytosensor Based Electrical Characterization of Keratinocytes and
Fibroblasts with Prime Molecular Expressions towards Skin Tissue Engineering
Applications. International Conference on Systems in Medicine and Biology, 16-18
December, 2010, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
4. A. Barui, Provas Banerjee, Raunak Kumar Das, Santanu Dhara, Jyotirmoy
Chatterjee. Correlating Optical Biopsy with Histopathology of Wounds under Topical
Intervention with Honey. International Conference on Systems in Medicine and
Biology, 16-18 December, 2010, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
5. Ananya Barui, Provas Banerjee, Raunak Kumar Das, Santanu Dhara, Jyotirmoy
Chatterjee. Honey based fibrous scaffold for tissue engineering application.IEEE/NIH
Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop, April 7-8,2011, Bethesda,
Mayland,USA.
International Conference abstracts (11):
1. Raunak Kumar Das, Mousumi Pal, Ananya Barui, Ranjan Rashmi Paul, Chandan
Chakraborty, Ajoy Kumar Ray, and Jyotirmoy Chatterjee. Molecular markers for
determining malignant potentiality of Oral Submucous Fibrosis. Cancercon, 2010,
February, 18-20, held at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai.
2. Raunak Kumar Das, Mousumi Pal, Ananya Barui, Ranjan Rashmi Paul, Chandan
Chakraborty, Ajoy Kumar Ray, and Jyotirmoy Chatterjee. Apotome to visualize E-
cadherin and p63 in oral pre-cancer. International Conference on Cellular and
Molecular Bioengineering. 2-4th
August, 2010, Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore.
3. Raunak Kumar Das, Mousumi Pal, Swarnendu Bag , Subhadipa Majumdar, Ananya
Barui, Ranjan Rashmi Paul, Chandan Chakraborty, Ajoy Kumar Ray, Sanghamitra
Sengupta, Jyotirmoy Chatterjee, Appearance of Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition
(EMT) Features in Oral Sub-mucous Fibrosis as Potential Indicator for Neoplastic
Progression, At International Conference on Stem Cells and Cancer (ICSCC-2012)
held at New Delhi.
4. Raunak Kumar Das, Mousumi Pal, Ranjan Rashmi Paul, Ananya Barui, Chandan
Chakraborty, Ajoy Kumar Ray and Jyotirmoy Chatterjee. Correlating basement
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6. membrane features with mucosal molecular expressions in oral pre-cancer.
International Conference on Stem Cells and Cancer (ICSCC-2010) 11th
-14th
December
2010, organized by School of Biotechnology, International Institute of Information
Technology (I2
IT, Pune).
5. Priti P Maity, Raunak Kumar Das, Ananya Barui, Anup Sadhu, Subhalaksmi
Mukhopadhya, Santanu Dhara and Jyotirmoy Chatterjee. Comparative Evaluation of
Epithelial and Stromal Markers (p63, α-SMA, Collagen I and III and CD 105) in
Phllodes and Fibroadenoma to attain Diagnostic Specificity. International Conference
on Stem Cells and Cancer (ICSCC-2010) 11th
-14th
December 2010, organized by
School of Biotechnology, International Institute of Information Technology (I2
IT,
Pune).
6. Ananya Barui, Provas Banerjee, Raunak Kumar Das, Santanu Dhara and Jyotirmoy
Chatterjee. Changes in p63 expression in regenerating epithelium through healing
progression. International Conference on Stem Cells and Cancer (ICSCC-2010) 11th
-
14th
December 2010, organized by School of Biotechnology, International Institute of
Information Technology (I2
IT, Pune).
7. Ananya Barui, Raunak Kumar Das, Santanu Dhara, Provas Banerjee, Jyotirmoy
Chatterjee. Honey Based Fibrous Scaffold for Tissue Engineering Application.
International Conference on Biomaterials and Implants: Prospects and Possibilities in
the New Millennium (BIO 2011). 21-23 July, 2011. Central Glass and Ceramics
Research Institute, Kolkata, India.
8. Cheshta Walia, R. K Das, A.Barui, S. Kundu, M. Pal, R.R. Paul, C. Chakraborty, J.
Chatterjee, A. K.Roy. “APOTOME” - A better alternative to conventional
fluorescence microscopy. IAOMP National & First International Conference,
December 10-12, 2010, Radisson Temple Bay, Mahabalipuram, Tamilnadu.
9. Correlating Expressions of Angiogenic Factors (VEGF, CD 105) with E-cadherin in
Assessing Progression of Oral Sub-mucous Fibrosis, Anji Anura, Raunak Kumar
Das, Mousumi Pal, Ranjan Rashmi Paul, Ajoy Kumar Ray, Jyotirmoy Chatterjee. At
International Conference on Stem Cells and Cancer (ICSCC-2012) held at New Delhi.
10. Honey in Modulating Epithelial Stem Cell Markers (p63 & E -cadherin) in vitro and
in vivo Findings. Amrita Chaudhary, Ananya Barui, Raunak Kumar Das, Mousmi
Mandal, Provas Banerjee, Jyotirmoy Chatterjee. At International Conference on Stem
Cells and Cancer (ICSCC-2012) held at New Delhi.
11. Anura, A., Das, R. K., Pal, M., Bag, S., Conjeti, S., Sheet, D., Paul, R. R., Sengupta,
S., Ray, A. K., Chakraborty, C., and Chatterjee, J. (2012), Pro-EMT and Neo-
angiogenic attributes of Oral Sub-mucous Fibrosis and Visualization ofStage
Progression Panorama through Automated Image Stitching, 3rd International Cancer
Research Symposium, held at Kolkata, from 18th-22nd December.
Papers presented at National Conferences (1):
1. Revathi J, Gunasekaran P, Mohana S, Arunagiri K, Hemlatha K, Sheriff AK, and
Raunak Kumar Das. Sensitivity of different cell lines for isolation of Influenza
viruses. XXXI National Congress of the Indian Association of Medical
Microbiologists (IAMM) MICROCON 2007, November 16th
-18th
2007, Kasturba
Medical College, Mangalore.
Invited Lectures
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7. 1. Delivered a Guest lecture to life science students on ‘Staining and imaging for early
diagnosis of cancer’ at Hindustan College of Arts and Science, Chennai, on 18th
July,
2014.
Personal Profile:
Date of Birth / Age :13th
June 1982
Sex :Male
Marital Status :Single
Father's Name :Ramendra Kumar Das
Mothers Name :Aditi Das
Hobbies :Music, Reading, Tabla, Drawing
Languages Known :English, Hindi, Bengali, Sanskrit
(Read, Write and Speak)
References:
1. Prof. Ajoy K. Ray,
Director,
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur,
PO: Botanic Garden, Dist: Howrah, West Bengal,
India - 711103.
Email: ajoy_ray2004@yahoo.com
Ph: 91-9434004711
2. Prof. (Dr.) Ranjan Rashmi Paul
Professor and Head,
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology,
Guru Nanak Institute of Dental Sciences and Research,
157/F Nilgunj Road, Panihati, Kolkata, West Bengal, India-700114.
Ph: 9830027940
Email: drrrpaul1@gmail.com
3. Dr. J. Chatterjee,
Associate Professor, School of Medical Science and Technology,
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India.
Ph-91-9733742446,
Email-jchatterjee@smst.iitkgp.ernet.in, jds_c2000@yahoo.com.
4. Dr. P.Gunasekaran, M.D.,
Director,
King Institute of Preventive Medicine, Guindy, Chennai - 600 032.
Ph- 91-9840960225.
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8. 5. Dr. Sajal Bhattacharya (Reader),
Head of the Department of Zoology,
Asutosh College, Kolkata - 700026.
Ph- 91-9830579499
Declaration:
I hereby declare that all the above provided details are correct and true to my knowledge.
RAUNAK KUMAR DAS
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