Bagchi, Sounak
Pharmaceutical Sciences
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Biography
Sounak Bagchi completed his Bachelor of Pharmacy (BPharm) degree from the Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, India in 2018. He joined the Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences as a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) student in August of 2018, and is presently working in the laboratory of Dr. Vardan Karamyan with the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Education:
- BPharm: Pharmacy, Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, India, 2018
Research Interests:
Pharmacological approach to stroke recovery after ischemic stroke.
Publications:
Before Admission to GPPS:
- Sounak Bagchi, Parth Rathee, Venkatesan Jayaprakash, Sugato Banerjee*. Farnesyl Transferase Inhibitors as Potential Anticancer Agents. Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry. (2018) 18: 1 [Epub 2018 Jul 31].
- Sounak Bagchi, Uzma Alia, Faiz Mohammad, Mohd Usman Mohd Siddique. High throughput virtual screening based discovery of dengue protease inhibitor. Journal of Pharmaceutical Chemistry. (2017) Aug 9; 4(3):35-40.
After Admission to GPPS:
- Nausheen Syeara, Sounak Bagchi, Abdullah Al Shoyaib, Serob T Karamyan, Faisal F Alamri, Vardan T Karamyan. The Finer Aspects of Grid-Walking and Cylinder Tests for Experimental Stroke Recovery Studies in Mice. Methods Mol Biol. 2023; 2616:345-353.
- Varahachalam SP, Lahooti B, Chamaneh M, Bagchi S, Chhibber T, Morris K, Bolanos JF, Kim NY, Kaushik A. Nanomedicine for the SARS-CoV-2: State-of-the-Art and Future Prospects. International Journal of Nanomedicine. 2021 Jan 22;16:539-560.
- Bagchi S, Lahooti B, Chhibber T, Varahachalam SP, Mittal R, Joshi A, Jayant RD. In Vitro Models of Central Nervous System Barriers for Blood-Brain Barrier Permeation Studies. Nanomedicines for Brain Drug Delivery. 2021 Jan 15;NM 157:235-253. Humana, New York, NY. [Book Chapter. Neuromethods, Vol.157] Epub 2020 Nov 20.
- Lahooti B, Chhibber T, Bagchi S, Varahachalam SP, Jayant RD. Therapeutic role of inflammasome inhibitors in neurodegenerative disorders. Brain Behav Immun. 2021 Jan; 91:771-783. Epub 2020 Nov 4.
- Chhibber T, Shinde R, Lahooti B, Bagchi S, Varahachalam S P, Gaddam A, Jaiswal A .K , Gracia E , Chand H.S , Kaushik A and Jayant RD, 2020. Hydrogels in Tissue Engineering. Intelligent Hydrogels in Diagnostics and Therapeutics (pp. 105-122). CRC Press. [Book Chapter]
- Bagchi S and Jayant RD. Multifunctional Nanotherapeutics for the Treatment of NeuroHIV. The FASEB Journal. 2020 Apr 21;34: 1-1. [Abstract]
- Chhibber T, Bagchi S, Lahooti B, Verma A, Al-Ahmad A, Paul MK, Pendyala G, Jayant RD. CNS organoids: an innovative tool for neurological disease modeling and drug neurotoxicity screening. Drug Discov Today. 2020 Feb;25(2):456-465. Epub 2019 Nov 26.
- Bagchi S, Chhibber T, Lahooti B, Verma A, Borse V, Jayant RD. In-vitro blood-brain barrier models for drug screening and permeation studies: An overview. Drug Des Devel Ther. 2019 Oct 18;13:3591-3605. eCollection 2019.
Presentations:
Before Admission to GPPS:
- Sounak Bagchi, Mohd Usman M S, Barij Nyan Sinha, Tabassum Khair Barbhuiya, Venkatesan Jayaprakash. "Combined shape-based, molecular docking approach and in silico ADMET calculation for discovery of dengue protease inhibitor". Poster Presentation. (National Conference on Pharma Innovations and Regulatory Considerations. 2016, Sept 4)
After Admission to GPPS:
- Sounak Bagchi, Nausheen Syeara, Dhavalkumar Patel, Vardan T. Karamyan. "Comparative Study of Protein Precipitation, Solid-Phase Extraction and Phospholipid Removal for Simultaneous Quantification of Serotonin, Dopamine, and Norepinephrine by LC-MS/MS in the Mouse Brain". American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) PharmSci 360, Boston, MA; October 2022.
- Sounak Bagchi, Nausheen Syeara, Dhavalkumar Patel, Vardan T. Karamyan. "Simultaneous quantification and validation of serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine by LC-MS/MS in the mouse brain". 19th Annual Research Days, TTUHSC Jerry H Hodge School of Pharmacy, Office of Sciences in Amarillo, event at Lubbock, TX; June 2022.
- Sounak Bagchi, Nausheen Syeara, Dhavalkumar Patel, Vardan T. Karamyan. "Method Development for Simultaneous Quantification of Serotonin, Dopamine, and Norepinephrine by LC-MS/MS". 18th Annual Research Days, TTUHSC Jerry H Hodge School of Pharmacy, Office of Sciences in Amarillo (virtual); June 2021.
- "Late Breaking" Oral Presentation: Sounak Bagchi, Rahul Dev Jayant. "Bioengineered Exosomes As Novel Drug Carriers for Targeting HIV-1 Infection in the CNS". International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV), ISEV2020 Virtual Annual Meeting; July 2020.
- Sounak Bagchi and Rahul Dev Jayant. "Combinatorial multifunctional therapy for the treatment of NeuroHIV". Student Research Week, TTUHSC Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Lubbock; March 2019.
Seminars:
- 03/31/2023 "Development of a robust and sensitive method for simultaneous quantification of serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine by LC-MS/MS in the mouse cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and brain microdialysis samples"
- 02/18/2022 "Method development for simultaneous quantification of serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine by LC-MS/MS in the mouse brain"
- 10/23/2020 “Investigating the role of antagomir-34a against HIV-1 Tat associated neuroinflammation” [Oral Qualifying Exam public presentation counted as Seminar credit]
- 02/28/2020 "Extracellular Vesicles as Nanodelivery System for Targeting CNS HIV-1 Infection"
Awards/Scholarships:
- Student of the Year Award, TTUHSC Jerry H Hodge School of Pharmacy Graduate Student Association in Amarillo, May 2023.
- Travel Grant Award, Cayman Chemical Company, American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) PharmSci 360, Boston, MA; October 2022.
- Travel Award, Biotage, "Workshop on Stereotaxic Surgery in the Laboratory Mouse", Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME; May 2022.
- Registration and Tuition Scholarship, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, "Workshop on Stereotaxic Surgery in the Laboratory Mouse", Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME; May 2022.
- Travel Award, Biotage, "Workshop on Stereotaxic Surgery in the Laboratory Mouse", Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME; May 2022.
- Registration and Tuition Scholarship, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, "Workshop on Stereotaxic Surgery in the Laboratory Mouse", Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME; May 2022.
- International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV) 2020 Scholarship, ISEV2020 Virtual Annual Meeting; July 2020.
- Milton "Buff" Morris Scholarship, Opportunity Plan Educational Loans and Scholarships, Fall 2019.
Memberships:
- American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) TTUHSC Student Chapter – Chair, 2022-2023.
- American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) TTUHSC Student Chapter – Chair-Elect, 2021-2022.
- American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) TTUHSC Student Chapter, 2021-present.
- International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV), 2020-present.
- American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET), 2019-present.
- American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS), 2018-present.
- Graduate Student Association in Amarillo (GSAA), TTUHSC, 2018-present
- Inter-Professional Ambassadors at Amarillo (IPA), 2018-present.
- Translational Research Interest Group (TRIG), 2018-present.