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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.