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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Anirban Basu
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| birth_place = India
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| residence = [[Manesar]], [[Gurgaon]], [[Haryana]], India
| nationality = [[Indian nationality|Indian]]
| fields = {{ublist | [[Neurobiology]] | [[Neurovirology]] }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[National Brain Research Centre]] }}
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[Ballygunge Government High School]] [[Viswa Bharati University]] | [[Indian Institute of Chemical Biology]] | | [[Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center]] }}
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| known_for = Studies on [[Japanese encephalitis]]
| awards = {{ublist| 2010 [[National Bioscience Award for Career Development|N-BIOS Prize]] | 2011 [[VASVIK Industrial Research Award]] 2011 Dr. J. B. Srivastav Oration of the [[Indian Council of Medical Research]] | 2012 Rajib Goyal Prize | 2013 [[National Academy of Sciences, India|NASI]]-[[Reliance Industries]] Platinum Jubilee Award | 2015 Senior Scientist Oration Award of the Indian Immunology Society 2017 SBCI Sreenivasaya Memorial Award }} 2018 Prof. S. S. Katiyar Endowment Lecture of the [[Indian Science Congress Association]]
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'''Anirban Basu''' is an Indian neurobiologist, who is primarily interested in neurovirology, a senior scientist at the [[National Brain Research Centre]], a deemed to be university, located in Manesar, [[Gurgaon]], [[Haryana]]. He is internationally known for his studies on [[Japanese encephalitis]]. Basu is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science Academies namely the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]], the [[Indian National Science Academy]] and the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]] as well as of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology. The [[Department of Biotechnology]] of the Government of India awarded him the [[National Bioscience Award for Career Development]], one of the prominent Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences and biotechnology, in 2010.

== Biography ==
[[File:Vidyalaya Griha - 1899 CE - Santiniketan 2014-06-29 5542-5543.TIF|thumb|left|Vidyalaya Griha - Viswa Bharati University]]
Anirban Basu completed his undergraduate studies (BSc Hons) in 1991 and post graduate course (MSc) in 1993 at the School of Life Sciences of the [[Viswa Bharati University]] .<ref name="Proforma for Nominations">{{Cite web |url=http://www.dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/Anirban.pdf |title=Proforma for Nominations |date=2017 |website=Department of Biotechnology |access-date=2018-01-27}}</ref> His doctoral studies were at the [[CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology]] and later, he has done his postdoctoral studies at the [[Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania]].<ref name="Anirban Basu on NBRC">{{Cite web |url=http://w9.nbrc.ac.in/newweb/research/groups/anirban-basu |title=Anirban Basu on NBRC |date=2018-01-27 |website=National Brain Research Centre |access-date=2018-01-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128021225/http://w9.nbrc.ac.in/newweb/research/groups/anirban-basu/ |archive-date=28 January 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Returning to India, he joined the [[National Brain Research Centre]] (NBRC) in 2004 as a scientist and a member of its faculty.<ref name="Faculty profile">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nbrc.ac.in/view_profile.php?id=OQ== |title=Faculty profile |date=2018-01-27 |website=National Brain Research Centre |access-date=2018-01-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128020950/http://www.nbrc.ac.in/view_profile.php?id=OQ== |archive-date=28 January 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> At NBRC, presently he serves as a senior scientist and has established an independent laboratory to study different aspects of neurotropic viral infection of brain.<ref name="Lab Members">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nbrc.ac.in/user_labmem.php?id=OQ== |title=Lab Members |website=National Brain Research Centre |access-date=2018-01-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180127203028/http://www.nbrc.ac.in/user_labmem.php?id=OQ== |archive-date=27 January 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Basu resides inside the campus of National Brain Research Center, Manesar.

== Professional profile ==
[[File:Japanese Encephalitis Distribution.jpg|thumb|The geographic distribution of [[Japanese encephalitis]] (in yellow)]]
Basu's research focus is on [[central nervous system diseases]] (CNS diseases) and he has studied the [[central nervous system]] with regard to how [[microglia]] and neural stem/progenitor cells affect the system.<ref name="Indian fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail/P17-1739 |title=Indian fellow |date=2018-01-26 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=2018-01-26}}</ref> The team led by him are involved in research on the [[pathogenesis]] of viruses such as [[Japanese encephalitis virus]] (JEV), West Nile Virus (WNV) and [[Chandipura virus]] (CHPV) and how they cause neuronal damage in hosts.<ref name="Research Interests">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nbrc.ac.in/user_research.php?id=OQ== |title=Research Interests |date=2018-01-27 |website=National rain Research Centre |access-date=2018-01-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180127202848/http://www.nbrc.ac.in/user_research.php?id=OQ== |archive-date=27 January 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2011, his group identified [[minocycline]], a [[broad-spectrum antibiotic|broad-spectrum]] [[tetracycline antibiotics|tetracycline antibiotic]] generally used for treating skin infections, as having properties in fighting the disease of [[Japanese encephalitis]], which they discovered through their experiments on mice.<ref name="Old drug, new prescription">{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1110314/jsp/knowhow/story_13708467.jsp |title=Old drug, new prescription |work=The Telegraph |access-date=2018-01-27}}</ref> The findings were put on clinical trial at the [[King George's Medical University]] where it was found to have beneficial effect on Japanese encephalitis and [[Acute encephalitis syndrome]] patients who survive the initial attack of the diseases and this has led to a wider study on the subject.<ref name="Indian fellow" /> He was the guest editor for ''Clinical and Developmental Immunology'' journal when they released a special issue on ''Microglia in Development and Disease'' in 2013<ref name="Anirban Basu on NBRC" /> and has mentored several research scholars in the post-graduate, doctoral and post-doctoral studies.<ref name="Indian fellow" />

Basu serves as a member of the [[Faculty of 1000]] at their division dealing with infectious diseases of the nervous system.<ref name="F1000Prime - Anirban Basu: Advisory Board Member in Infectious Diseases of the Nervous System ">{{Cite web |url=https://f1000.com/prime/thefaculty/member/5481007493307611 |title=F1000Prime - Anirban Basu: Advisory Board Member in Infectious Diseases of the Nervous System |date=2018-01-27 |website=f1000.com |access-date=2018-01-27}}</ref> He is also part of the editorial board of journals such as the [[Journal of Neurochemistry]],<ref name="Journal of Neurochemistry - Editorial Board - Wiley Online Library">{{Cite journal |url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1471-4159/homepage/EditorialBoard.html#Basu |title=Journal of Neurochemistry - Editorial Board - Wiley Online Library |date=2018-01-27 |website=Journal of Neurochemistry |language=en |doi=10.1111/(ISSN)1471-4159 |access-date=2018-01-27}}</ref> [[Scientific Reports]],<ref name="Editorial Advisory Panel and Editorial Board - Scientific Reports">{{Cite web |url=https://www.nature.com/srep/about/editorial-board#neurology |title=Editorial Advisory Panel and Editorial Board - Scientific Reports |date=2018-01-27 |website=www.nature.com |language=en |access-date=2018-01-27}}</ref> [[Journal of Neuroinflammation]],<ref name="Editorial Board - Journal of Neuroinflammation">{{Cite web |url=https://jneuroinflammation.biomedcentral.com/about/editorial-board |title=Editorial Board - Journal of Neuroinflammation |date=2018-01-27 |website=Journal of Neuroinflammation |language=en |access-date=2018-01-27}}</ref> and [[Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience]]<ref name="Editorial Board - Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience">{{Cite web |url=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/molecular-neuroscience |title=Editorial Board - Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience |date=2018-01-27 |website=Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience |language=en |access-date=2018-01-27}}</ref>

== Awards and honors ==
The [[Department of Biotechnology]] (DBT) of the Government of India awarded him the [[National Bioscience Award for Career Development]], one of the prominent Indian science awards in 2010.<ref name="Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development">{{Cite web |url=http://dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/list_of_bioscience_awardees.pdf |title=Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development |date=2016 |publisher=Department of Biotechnology |access-date=2017-11-20}}</ref> The [[National Academy of Sciences, India]] elected him as a fellow in 2011<ref name="NASI Year Book 2015">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/Year%20Book%202015.pdf |title=NASI Year Book 2015 |date=2018-01-25 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India |access-date=2018-01-25}}</ref> and he received the [[VASVIK Industrial Research Award]] the same year.<ref name="Vasvik Award">{{Cite web |url=http://www.vasvik.org/biological_sciences_&_technology.html |title=Vasvik Award |date=2018-01-27 |website=Vividhlaxi Audyogik Samshodhan Vikas Kendra |access-date=2018-01-27}}</ref> He was chosen for the Rajib Goyal Prize of [[Kurukshetra University]] in 2012,<ref name="Author profile">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5gbWDAAAQBAJ&pg=PR9 |title=Inflammation: the Common Link in Brain Pathologies |last1=Nihar Jana |last2=Anirban Basu |last3=Prakash Narain Tandon |date=13 August 2016 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-981-10-1711-7 |pages=9–}}</ref> the same year as he became an elected fellow of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology, and a year later, he received the [[National Academy of Sciences, India|NASI]]-[[Reliance Industries]] Platinum Jubilee Award.<ref name="NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/NASI-Reliance%20Industries%20Platinum%20Jubilee%20Awardees%20(2013).htm |title=NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award |date=2018-01-27 |website=National Academy of Sciences, India |access-date=2018-01-27}}</ref> He was awarded the Sreenivasaya Memorial Award of Society of Biological Chemists (India) in 2017
<ref name="Sreenivasaya Memorial Award">{{Cite web |url=http://sbc2017.org/sbcprog11nov.pdf |title=Sreenivasaya Memorial Award |website=Society of Biological Chemists (India) |access-date=2018-01-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128021105/http://sbc2017.org/sbcprog11nov.pdf |archive-date=28 January 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and two of the other major Indian science academies, the [[Indian National Science Academy]]<ref name="Indian fellow" /> and the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] elected him as their fellow in 2017 and 2018 respectively<ref name="Fellowship - Indian Academy of Sciences">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/listing/fellows/B |title=Fellowship - Indian Academy of Sciences |date=2018-01-27 |website=www.ias.ac.in |language=en |access-date=2018-01-27}}</ref> He held the Tata Innvovation fellowship of the Department of Biotechnology in 2015 and the award orations delivered by him included the 2011 edition of the Dr. J. B. Srivastav Oration of the [[Indian Council of Medical Research]],<ref name="Dr. J. B. Srivastav Oration Award">{{Cite web |url=http://www.icmr.nic.in/award/Result-ICMR%20Awards-11-12.pdf |title=Dr. J. B. Srivastav Oration Award |date=2018-01-27 |website=Indian Council of Medical Research |access-date=2018-01-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160208032201/http://www.icmr.nic.in/award/Result-ICMR%20Awards-11-12.pdf |archive-date=8 February 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> the Senior Scientist Oration of the Indian Immunology Society in 2015<ref name="Minutes of the General Body Meeting held in the evening of October 10, 2015">{{Cite web |url=http://www.indianimmunology.org/GBM%2042%20Immunon%202015%20Patna_.pdf |title=Minutes of the General Body Meeting held in the evening of October 10, 2015 |date=2018-01-27 |website=Indian Immunology Society |access-date=2018-01-27}}</ref> Prof. S. S. Katiyar Endowment Lecture of the [[Indian Science Congress Association]] in 2018.<ref name="Indian fellow" /> In 2019, he has been elected to Fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM). The AAM is the honorific leadership group within the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), the world's oldest and largest life science organization.

== Selected bibliography ==
=== Books ===
* {{cite book|author1=Nihar Jana|author2=Anirban Basu|author3=Prakash Narain Tandon|title=Inflammation: the Common Link in Brain Pathologies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5gbWDAAAQBAJ|date=13 August 2016|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-981-10-1711-7}}

=== Articles ===
* {{Cite journal |last1=Hazra |first1=Bibhabasu |last2=Chakraborty |first2=Surajit |last3=Basu |first3=Anirban |title=miR-301a mediated immune evasion by Japanese encephalitis virus |journal=Oncotarget |volume=8 |issue=53 |pages=90620–90621 |doi=10.18632/oncotarget.21674|pmid=29207584 |pmc=5710865 |year=2017 }}
* {{Cite journal |last1=Basu |first1=Anirban |last2=Dutta |first2=Kallol |date=2017-03-13 |title=Recent advances in Japanese encephalitis |journal=F1000Research |volume=6 |pages=259 |doi=10.12688/f1000research.9561.1|pmid=28357054 |pmc=5357037 }}
* {{Cite journal |last1=Hazra |first1=Bibhabasu |last2=Kumawat |first2=Kanhaiya Lal |last3=Basu |first3=Anirban |date=2017-02-14 |title=The host microRNA miR-301a blocks the IRF1-mediated neuronal innate immune response to Japanese encephalitis virus infection |journal=Sci. Signal. |language=en |volume=10 |issue=466 |pages=eaaf5185 |doi=10.1126/scisignal.aaf5185 |issn=1945-0877 |pmid=28196914|s2cid=21351722 }}

== See also ==
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* [[microRNA]]
* [[Japanese encephalitis vaccine]]
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{{portal|India|Biology|Medicine}}

== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== Further reading ==
* {{Cite journal |last1=Ghosh |first1=Sourish |last2=Mukherjee |first2=Sriparna |last3=Basu |first3=Anirban |date=2015-10-01 |title=Chandipura virus perturbs cholesterol homeostasis leading to neuronal apoptosis |journal=Journal of Neurochemistry |language=en |volume=135 |issue=2 |pages=368–380 |doi=10.1111/jnc.13208 |pmid=26118540 |issn=1471-4159|doi-access=free }}

== External links ==
* {{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwidzOlP1ao |title=Eureka with Dr Anirban Basu |date=29 October 2017 |publisher=Rajya Sabha TV |format=YouTube video |access-date=2018-01-26}}
* {{Cite web |url=http://www.delcon.gov.in/IAN2016.pdf |title=Molecules to Mind - International Symposium on Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Brain Functions |date=October 2016 |website=DBT-Electronic Library Consortium |access-date=2018-01-27}}

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