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PROF.ASRU KUMAR SINHA

DISTINCTIONS/ ACHIEVEMENTS OBTAINED IN THE ACADEMIC/ SCIENTIFIC/ SOCIAL FIELDS BY DR.ASRU KUMAR SINHA. D.Sc

Academic Achievements: Dr. Asru K Sinha obtained his D.Sc from the University of Calcutta in 1969, one of the youngest persons who achieved D.Sc degree at 23yr age. He has been teacher in University of Calcutta in the Gujarati Education Society College, City College as Lecturer from 1964-1969. In United States, he worked at Miami University, Ohio, USA as a lecturer/Research Associate for three years (1969-1972) after which he went to University of Kansas, Kansas City, MO as Postdoctoral Associate (1972-1974), thereafter he joined as Assistant Professor in University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1974-1978) and as Associate Professor at Temple University (1978-1985), later on he joined as Professor in Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York (1985-1990) and Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, USA (1990-1993). In 1994, he joined as Head of Department, Department of LifeScience & Biotechnology, Jadavpur University, directly selected by the UGC, Govt of India for the position. Currently, he is the founder Director of Sinha Institute of Medical Science & technology, a nonprofit Research Institute approved by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India and is recognized by the United States, Internal Revenue Service has an international research centre in Medical Science and waived off all tax obligation regarding all grants from USA, a distinctive honor for us being in India. Research achievements: Dr.Sinha is the only person from India whose discovery in Cancer research medicine “Antineoplastin” has been accepted from  US Patent office, this is the only Cancer therapy without known side effects (Patent Number: 60/442439,  granted date: 04/08/2003). For his invention on “antineoplastin” he was nominated for the Paul Erlich award from 64,000 researchers worldwide in 2008. 1.	Thousands of cancer patients in all India and Asian Subcontinent have been benefited/ cured by using “antineoplastin”. 2.	Innumerable numbers of diabetes mellitus patient have been benefited from 1995 with the discovery of “Beta-patch” by Dr.Sinha, a diabetic medicine without side effects used currently all over India. This Beta-patch, works through the synthesis of insulin in the liver that Dr.Sinha reported (Ghosh R et al, Endocrinology, 2010, 38:294-302) for first time in the world, liver can make insulin like pancreas, through control of blood glucose sugar level. 3.	17 students have completed PhD degree under the mentorship of Prof.Asru K Sinha, these students have been successfully and are working at India and abroad in academics and Industry at higher ranks. A brief description of the trained Postdoctoral fellow and PhD students is given below:

Name of the postdoctoral students trained in USA and their current positions:

Name	               Year	Current Position N.N.Kahn, PhD. 1986-1990	Associate Professor. Mt. Sinai Medical Center, NY. Asim Duttaroy, PhD.	1978-1980	Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway Tarun K. Roy, MD. 1978-1980	Endocrinologist, Temple University Physicians, Philadelphia. Pierre Zoldhelyi, MD. 1986-1988	Cardiologist, College Station, Texas, USA. Veena Dayal, PhD.	1978-1980	Director, Quality Assurance, InnoPharma, Inc Raja G Ogirala, MD. 1985-1988	Professor, Montefiore Medical Center, New York. Ravi Sharma, MD.	1988-1990	Vascular Surgery, Oak Hill Hospital, FL, USA Ravi N Rathi, MD.	1990-1992	Cardiologist, Jersey City, NJ Rohit Arora, MD.	1986-1990	Professor of Medicine, The Chicago Medical School,  North Chicago, IL, USA List Of Ph.D. Students trained by Dr.Sinha Sl. No.	Name of the student	Degree Awarded	Current position 1	Krishnendu Acharya	1998	Associate Professor, Dept of Botany, University of Calcutta 2	Shayamoli Basuray 	2000	Instructor, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA. 3	Sujoy Bhattacharya	2001	Instructor, University of Tennesse, Memphis, USA. 4	Nandita Das	       2000	Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Rome, Italy. 5	A. Indra	       2001	Postdoctoral Fellow, Paris, France 6	Meghamala Dutta	       2001	Associate Professor, JIS College of Eng. Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Kalyani. 7	Manti Guha	       2002	Research Associate, Univ of Pennsylvania, PA, USA. 8	Gausal.A. Khan	       2002	Scientist D, DIPAS, New Delhi 9	K.Chakraborty	       2005	Postdoctoral fellow, N.I.H, U.S.A 10	G.V.Girish	        2007	Senior Research Associate, CSIR, SIMST, Kolkata 11	Nehi Sinha	       2007	Assistant Professor, Biotechnology Institute, Hyderabad, India 12	Dr. U Ray	       2008	Head, Chemical Pathology, Royal Hobart Hospital, Australia. 13	Dr. S. K. Karmahapatra	2009	Postdoctoral fellow,Georgetown University, USA 14	Dr.Mau Bhattacharyya	2012	Research Associate, Coimbatore 15	Somashree Chakraborty	2012	Research Associate, University of Mumbai 16 	Rajeshwary Ghosh	2013	Postdoctoral fellow, University of California, Davis 17 	Karabi Ganguly	2013	Associate Professor, JIS College of Eng. Dept. of Biotechnology, Kalyani.

He has also obtained US patent right for his invention to control diabetes mellitus using noninvasive therapy known as “Beta patch”.

Social Service: Dr.Sinha has established a primary school for the children of the poorest of the poor family in Tamluk, Parbatipur, Tamluk, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal using his own personal funds since 2008. In this school all the children are provided with nutritious breakfast, School uniforms, tie, shoes and note books, monthly health checkup all free of cost. As a mark of appreciation, Citizen Committee of Tamluk gave Dr.Sinha a social honor “Nagarik Samvardhana” for his social services. Incidentally, all diabetes mellitus patients are treated freely without any cost for the given research medicine, at least 50% of the cancer patent have received the “antineoplastin” medicine without cost throughout the year from 1995 onward. All the poor cancer patients are treated at the Sinha Institute of Medical Science & technology, Kolkata and Tamluk centre free of any cost.