Dr. Abhishikta Ghosh Roy
Name: Dr. Abhishikta Ghosh Roy
Qualification: Ph.D
Designation : Anthropologist
Department: Anthropology
institute name: Anthropological Survey of India
College address: 27, Jawaharlal Nehru Road
Kolkata 700016
Publication title: Journal
Paper Title: Absence of P53 Gene Mutations in Exons 5 - 7 Among Breast Cancer Patients of Bengalee Hindu Caste Females, West Bengal, India
Journal Name: Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
Volume: 13
Issue No.: 9
Year: 2012
Page No.: 4477-4479
ISSN: 1513-7368
About Dr. Abhishikta Ghosh Roy
Dr. Abhishikta Ghosh Roy is an Anthropologist, with Anthropological Survey of India, a premiere research Institute under Ministry of Culture, Government of India, having obtained her Masters of Science in Anthropology from the University of Calcutta with National Merit Scholarship. She continued her research with the prestigious Junior Research Fellowship offered by Anthropological Survey of India, Ministry of Culture and was awarded PhD Degree by University of Calcutta for her research on Breast Cancer, the first of its kind from West Bengal, India. She has long term research experience in Cancer Genetics. Her long term research interests include Breast Cancer of Female and Male respectively. She focused on how environment interacts with Genetic Variants to influence susceptibility to Hormonal Cancers. Dr. Ghosh Roy has contributed to GenBank, NCBI with novel mutations having disease associations. Her laboratory work intends primarily on the discovery and characterization of Genetic Biological Markers to assess disease susceptibility in human cancers. She is having numerous international publications in peer-viewed journals of repute. She holds editorial board membership with few International and National Journals. Her varied research interests include Biological Anthropology in general with special focus on Medical Genetics, Forensic Anthropology, Public Health with reference to genes, Population Genetics, Cancer Biology. Her varied research interest on Palaeopathology of skeletal remains and ancient DNA is on the line. She has her research articles published in various International Journals of repute. Her noteworthy works were presented in various seminars in India and abroad including a recent one in Rome, Italy and Bali. She holds membership in editorial boards of many reputed journals. In the journey of her research she bagged in many honors and awards. She holds life-time membership with many prestigious organizations of India and abroad.