Partha Pratim Majumder PhD

Dr. Partha Pratim Majumder is the Director of the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani (near Kolkata). He is also a Professor at the Indian Statistical Institute and the Indian Institute of Science Education & Research, Kolkata. He obtained his Bachelor’s, Master and Doctoral degrees from the Indian Statistical Institute. He did his post-doctoral research at the Center for Demographics & Population Genetics, University of Texas Medical Center, Houston. 

He has served on the faculty of the Department of Biostatistics and Human Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh. His major scientific interests and contributions have been in the field of human population genetics and genetics of complex human disorders. He is an elected Fellow of all the three science academies of India. He has served on the Board of Directors of the International Genetic Epidemiology Society (IGES) and was the founding Chair of the ELSI Committee of IGES. He is a Member of the Human Genome Organisation. He is a recipient of many awards and medals, including the TWAS (The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World) Biology Prize – 2009, G.D. Birla Award for Scientific Research – 2002, Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Award in Biotechnology – 2001, Ranbaxy Research Award in Applied Medical Sciences – 2000, and the New Millennium Science Medal, Government of India, 2000.