Anupam grew up in Assam, a small northeastern state in India. After completing his bachelor’s degree from Gauhati University and master’s degree in chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in India, Anupam moved to New York City to pursue his PhD in chemical biology in Prof. Bobby Arora’s lab at NYU. In the Arora lab, Anupam focused on developing chemical inhibitors for therapeutically-relevant protein-protein interactions. In his main thesis project he designed a peptide inhibitor of the Ras-Sos interaction. Following graduation from NYU, Anupam spent a short stint as a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Tarun Kapoor’s lab at the Rockefeller University before moving to Prof. Vamsi Mootha’s lab at Harvard Medical School. In the Mootha lab Anupam changed his research direction from chemical inhibitors to enzyme-based therapies for mitochondrial disease. Here, Anupam engineered LOXCAT, an enzyme to alleviate systemic reductive stress in mitochondrial electron transport dysfunction. In September of 2021 Anupam is launching his lab in the Department of Pharmacology and Chemical biology at Emory School of Medicine.
Outside of lab, Anupam enjoys traveling and outdoor activities with his wife Priti. Anupam is an avid landscape photographer.
Education
Postdoctoral Fellow Harvard Medical School
Postdoctoral Fellow Rockefeller University
PhD New York University
MSc Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
BSc Gauhati University, India
Awards and Honors
Keystone Symposia Future of Science Fund Scholarship (2020)
Tosteson & Fund Medical Discovery Fellowship (2017)
Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship (2013-16)
Margaret and Herman Sokol Scholarship at NYU (2010-2011)
GATE fellowship, Govt. of India (2006)
Junior Research Fellowship, Govt. of India (2005)
Summer Research Fellowship, Indian Academy of Sciences (2004)