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{{Infobox scientist<br />
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1968|6|23}}<br />
| birth_place = [[West Bengal]], India<br />
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| residence = [[Gurgaon]], [[Haryana]], India<br />
| nationality = [[Indian nationality|Indian]]<br />
| fields = {{ublist | [[Immunology]] | [[Oncology]] }}<br />
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[National Institute of Immunology, India]] }}<br />
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[University of Calcutta]] | [[Indian Institute of Science]] | IGBMC | [[National Institutes of Health]] }}<br />
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| known_for = Studies on [[tumor suppressor gene]] and [[oncogenes]]<br />
| awards = {{ublist| 2011&nbsp;[[National Bioscience Award for Career Development|N-BIOS Prize]] }}<br />
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'''Sagar Sengupta''' (born 23 June 1968) is an Indian immunologist, cancer biologist and a scientist at the [[National Institute of Immunology, India]]. Known for his studies on [[tumor suppressor gene]] and [[oncogenes]], Sengupta is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies namely the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]], the [[Indian National Science Academy]] and the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]]. The [[Department of Biotechnology]] of the Government of India awarded him the [[National Bioscience Award for Career Development]], one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences, in 2011.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
[[File:Kolkata univ jeroje.jpg|thumb|University of Calcutta]]<br />
Sagara Sengupta, born on 23 June 1968<ref name="Fellow profile">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Sengupta,_Dr_Sagar |title=Fellow profile |date=2018-01-26 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |access-date=2018-01-26}}</ref> in the Indian state of [[West Bengal]], earned a postgraduate degree from the [[University of Calcutta]] and secured a PhD from the [[Indian Institute of Science]].<ref name="Sagar Sengupta on NII">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nii.res.in/research/sagar-sengupta |title=Sagar Sengupta on NII |date=2018-01-27 |website=www.nii.res.in |access-date=2018-01-27}}</ref> He did his post doctoral studies at the Institut de Genetique et de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC) in [[Strasbourg]], France and completed it at the [[National Cancer Institute]] of the [[National Institutes of Health]].<ref name="Sagar Sengupta, profile in India Cancer Research Database">{{Cite web |url=http://www.incredb.org/investigator.php?incredb_id=415 |title=Sagar Sengupta, profile in India Cancer Research Database |date=2018-01-27 |website=www.incredb.org |access-date=2018-01-27}}</ref> Subsequently, he joined the [[National Institute of Immunology, India]] as a faculty where he holds the position of a grade VI staff scientist.<ref name="Indian fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail/P17-1761 |title=Indian fellow |date=2018-01-25 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=2018-01-25}}</ref><br />
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Sengupta resides in [[Gurgaon]] in [[Haryana]].<ref name="NASI fellows">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=S |title=NASI fellows |date=2018-01-25 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India |access-date=2018-01-25}}</ref><br />
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== Professional profile ==<br />
Sengupta's research focus is on the changes in the signaling pathways during cancer development and he has carried out studies on the tumour suppressor genes and oncogenes.<ref name="Sagar Sengupta on NII" /> During his post-doctoral days at the [[National Institutes of Health]] (NIH), he undertook a project on NIH grant to study the ''Determination of regulatory mechanisms for BLM helicase''.<ref name="Determination of regulatory mechanisms for BLM helicase">{{Cite web |url=http://grantome.com/grant/NIH/R01-TW007302-04 |title=Determination of regulatory mechanisms for BLM helicase |last=Sagar |first=Sengupta |date=2018-01-27 |website=Grantome |language=en |access-date=2018-01-27}}</ref> His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles<ref name="On Google Scholar">{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Bc4SKwgAAAAJ&hl=en |title=On Google Scholar |date=2018-01-20 |publisher=Google Scholar |access-date=2018-01-20}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} and [[ResearchGate]], an online repository of scientific articles has listed 50 of them.<ref name="On ResearchGate">{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sagar_Sengupta |title=On ResearchGate |date=2018-01-20 |access-date=2018-01-20}}</ref> Besides, he has contributed chapters to books published by others.<ref name="DeyasiBasu2015">{{cite book|author1=Arpan Deyasi|author2=Abhishek Basu|title=Proceedings of National Conference on Frontline Research in Computer, Communication and Device (FRCCD-2015)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pw19CwAAQBAJ&pg=PR12|date=11 December 2015|publisher=Allied Publishers|isbn=978-93-85926-00-6|pages=12–}}</ref> He has also undertaken several projects on behalf of the government agencies such as the [[Department of Science and Technology (India)|Department of Science and Technology]], the [[Department of Biotechnology]] and the [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] as the principal investigator<ref name="Sagar Sengupta, profile in India Cancer Research Database" /> and is associated with the Department of Biotechnology as a member of its Task force on Cancer Biology, the expert committee on Promotion and Popularization of Biotechnology and the Expert Committee for Twinning RD program for North Eastern Region.<ref name="Sagar Sengupta - Speakers - Indian Academy of Sciences">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/MYM2017/Speakers/Sagar_Sengupta |title=Sagar Sengupta - Speakers - Indian Academy of Sciences |date=2018-01-27 |website=www.ias.ac.in |language=en |access-date=2018-01-27}}</ref><br />
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== Awards and honors ==<br />
Sengupta received the Best Thesis Award for his doctoral thesis from the Indian Institute of Science in 1991.<ref name="Sagar Sengupta on NII" /> The [[Department of Biotechnology]] (DBT) of the Government of India awarded him the [[National Bioscience Award for Career Development]], one of the highest Indian science awards in 2011.<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 2012<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 became an elected fellow of the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] and the [[Indian National Science Academy]] in 2017.<ref name="Fellowship - Indian Academy of Sciences">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/listing/fellows/S |title=Fellowship - Indian Academy of Sciences |date=2018-01-27 |website=www.ias.ac.in |language=en |access-date=2018-01-27}}</ref> He is also a member of the [[Guha Research Conference]].<ref name="Indian fellow" /><br />
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== Selected bibliography ==<br />
=== Chapters ===<br />
* {{cite book|author1=Arpan Deyasi|author2=Abhishek Basu|title=Proceedings of National Conference on Frontline Research in Computer, Communication and Device (FRCCD-2015)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pw19CwAAQBAJ&pg=PR12|date=11 December 2015|publisher=Allied Publishers|isbn=978-93-85926-00-6|pages=12–}}<br />
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=== Articles ===<br />
* {{Cite journal |last1=Sengupta |first1=Sagar |last2=Harris |first2=Curtis C. |date=2005 |title=p53: traffic cop at the crossroads of DNA repair and recombination |journal=Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology |language=En |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=44–55 |doi=10.1038/nrm1546 |pmid=15688066 |s2cid=11972657 |issn=1471-0080}}<br />
* {{Cite journal |last1=Sengupta |first1=Sagar |last2=Robles |first2=Ana I. |last3=Linke |first3=Steven P. |last4=Sinogeeva |first4=Natasha I. |last5=Zhang |first5=Ran |last6=Pedeux |first6=Remy |last7=Ward |first7=Irene M. |last8=Celeste |first8=Arkady |last9=Nussenzweig |first9=André |date=2004-09-13 |title=Functional interaction between BLM helicase and 53BP1 in a Chk1-mediated pathway during S-phase arrest |journal=J Cell Biol |language=en |volume=166 |issue=6 |pages=801–813 |doi=10.1083/jcb.200405128 |issn=0021-9525 |pmid=15364958|pmc=2172115 }}<br />
* {{Cite journal |last1=Sengupta |first1=Sagar |last2=Wasylyk |first2=Bohdan |date=2001-09-15 |title=Ligand-dependent interaction of the glucocorticoid receptor with p53 enhances their degradation by Hdm2 |journal=Genes & Development |language=en |volume=15 |issue=18 |pages=2367–2380 |doi=10.1101/gad.202201 |issn=0890-9369 |pmid=11562347|pmc=312780 }}<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[TP53]]<br />
* [[Glucocorticoid receptor]]<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm8A07H45V0 |title=Mechanisms that Prevent Carcinogenesis: Study of a Family of Caretaker Tumour Suppressors |last=Sagar Sengupta |date=21 July 2017 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |format=YouTube video |access-date=2018-01-27}}<br />
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