Anuranjan Anand is a geneticist studying the cellular and molecular basis of human disorders. He is a molecular biology and genetics professor and an associate neuroscience faculty at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research.
Biography and career
Anuranjan Anand did his doctoral studies at the Indian Institute of Science.,[1] and his post-doctoral studies at Stanford University.[2] He joined Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) as a faculty member in the Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit (MBGU)[3][4] and later became a professor and chair (2009-2016) of the Unit.[5] When the institute established the Neuroscience Unit (NSU) in 2014, he was designated as its associate faculty. He was the chair of NSU during 2016 - 2022.[6]
Research
During his post-doctoral studies, Anuranjan Anand worked with his colleagues in Bruce Baker's laboratory on the mutations of fruitless, a gene involved in sexual behavior and courtship in Drosophila melanogaster.[2] In JNCASR, his primary focus is on human genetic diseases, emphasizing neurological disorders, hereditary hearing loss and rare developmental disorders[7] His laboratory has discovered several genes and mutations underlying these disorders and is currently examining their biological underpinnings employing cell- and animal- modeling approaches [8][9][10][11][12]
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