Subhasis Banarjee
Subhasis Banerjee is the director of Origin Biomarkers Ltd, dedicated to the development of diagnostic markers with therapeutic applications in pregnancy disorders, female infertility, Diabetes, cardiovascular and rheumatoid diseases. Dr Banerjee holds a British Passport and was awarded permanent residency (Green Card) status in USA in 2008.
Dr Banerjee received undergraduate education in veterinary medicine in Kolkata, India. He was awarded an ICAR Fellowship (New Delhi, India) and a Gold Medal for post-graduate training in veterinary medicine in Bangalore, India. Subsequently, he was selected for biochemistry research in the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India. However, his strong interest in DNA tumor virus research persuaded him to leave the Biochemistry program at IIsc and move to USA. He was offered a Graduate Assistantship to study for a PhD program at the Pennsylvania State University Medical School, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA. Subsequently, he was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Human Genetics and Development at Columbia University, New York, USA.
After moving to the UK, he began investigations into the basic aspects of clinical medicine in various institutions in Birmingham, Cambridge and London. Dr Banerjee has applied himself successfully to a wide range of scientific fields: chromatin structure, epigenetic inheritance of imprinting to the embryo, discovery of genes susceptible to oxidative damage in sperm prior to in vitro fertilization, immune/endocrine aspects of fetal medicine including hypertensive pregnancy disorders such as pre-eclampsia and most commonly occurring trisomic pregnancies such as Down’s Syndrome. Throughout the world, pre-eclampsia is the major cause of maternal mortality, morbidity and also death and handicap in newborn babies. Dr Banerjee examined the molecular basis for pre-eclampsia and was able to predict that vitamin E supplementation which was being used empirically in many clinical trials worldwide would not prevent pre-eclampsia and may actually be harmful. .Dr Banerjee’s predictions were found to be correct and vitamin E supplementation in pregnancy is not currently being recommended. He has published numerous manuscripts, reviews and letters in peer reviewed international journals.
