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Dipak K. Banerjee

Founder and President

Dipak K. Banerjee is the Founder and President of GLYCO Puerto Rico and Professor at the University of Puerto Rico Medical School.

  • 1955 - 1963   Higher Secondary Examination, West Bengal, India
  • 1963 - 1966   B.Sc. with Honors in Chemistry, University of Calcutta, India
  • 1966 - 1968   M.Sc. (Biochemistry), University of Calcutta, India
  • 1972 - 1976   Ph.D. (Biochemistry), University of Calcutta, India

 

  •  1965-1966  RRC Scholarship (undergraduate study)
  •  1972-1975 Junior Research Fellowship     (graduatestudy)                                 
  • 4/1975-7/1975 Senior Research Fellowship (graduate study)
  • 1984  Bursary Award for attending the 9th International Congress  Pharmacology at London, UK
  • NSF Travel Award for attending the International Symposium onBiochemical Roles of Eukaryotic Cell Surface Macromolecules at NewDelhi, India.
  • 1987  Recipient of Inventor’s Award from the United States Department of
  • Commerce in recognition of the isolation and Culture of Adrenal Medullary Endothelial Cells Producing Blood Clotting Factor
  • 1988  American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology/Biochemical Society (UK) Travel Award to attend the 14th International Union of Biochemistry, Prague, Czechoslovaki
  • 1991 American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology/Biochemical Society (UK) Travel Award to attend the 15th International Union of Biochemistry, Jerusalem, Israel
  • 1992 Program Development visit to Poland under the US National Academy of Sciences and Polish Academy of Sciences Exchange Program        
  • 1993 Organizer; 22nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Complex  Carbohydrates, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • 1994 Session Chairman; 16th International Congress of Biochemistry andMolecular Biology, New Delhi, India
  • 1994 Session Chairman; 23rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Glycobiology,Notre Dame, Indiana
  • 05/95-07/95 Visiting Professor, Center for Cancer Research, MassachusettsInstitute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • 1996  Session Chairman; 4th International Symposium on Biochemical   Roles of Eukaryotic Cell Surface Macromolecules, New Delhi, India
  • 1997  Recipient of NIH-RCMI Faculty Development Award
  •  05/97-06/97 Visiting Professor, Center for Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Phillips University, Marburg, German
  • 1998-2002       Member, Board of Directors, Society for Glycobiology, USA
  • 07/10/2000 Visiting Professor, Physical Biosciences Division, Earnest Orlando
  • 08/11/2000  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California
  • 04/01/2001 Visiting Professor, Physical Biosciences Division, Earnest Orlando
  • 06/15/2001 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California
  •  2001-2007 Member, Editorial Board, Puerto Rico Health Sciences Journal.
  •  2005 Session Chairman, 7th International Symposium on Biochemical Roles of Eukaryotic Cell Surface Macromolecules, Puri,India
  • 2005 Session Chairman,XVIIth International Symposium on Glycoconjugates, Florence, Italy
  • 2005 Elected as Chairman for the 20th International Glycoconjugates Meeting (GLYCO XX) to be held in San Juan, PR in November/December 2009.
  • 2006  Session Chairman, 93rd Indian Science Congress, Hyderabad, India
  • 2006  Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • 2007 Session Chairman, 3rd International Symposium on Molecular A Immunology and Complex Carbohydrates, Taipei, Taiwan.
  • 2008 Session Chairman, 8th International Symposium on Biochemical Roles of Eukaryotic Cell Surface Macromolecules, Hyderabad, India.
  • 2009 Chairman, 20th International Symposium on Glycoconjugates, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  • 2010  Session Chairman, 2nd International Conference on Drug Discovery  & Therapy, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
  • 2011 Hind Rattan Award, Society for Non-Resident Indians, New Delhi, India
  • 2013 Session Chairman, 3rd International Cancer Research Symposium,   Kolkata, India. 
  • 2013  Session Chairman, Symposium on Breakthroughs in Basic and Translational Cancer Research, Delhi, India
  • 2013 Session Chair (Biosynthesis &Metabolism of Glycoconjugates I), 22nd International Symposium on Glycoconjugtaes, Dalian, China
  • 2014  Session Chair (Disease Glycobiology II), IUBMB 10th InternationalSymposium on Biochemical Roles of Eukaryotic Cell Surface Macromolecules, Kolkata, India
  • 2014-to date   Editorial Board Member, Cellular & Molecular Biology Letters, Poland.
  • 2014 Session Chair (Functions and Applications), 9th International Symposium on Glycosyltransferases (GlycoT 2014), Porto, Portugal.
  • 2014 Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Samman (Global Achiever Award - 2014), Global Achiever conclave in House of Lords, UK, October 9, 2014.

 

 

  • 1985 – Present Society for Glycobiology, USA
  • 1985 - Present Biochemical Society, UK
  • 1986 – Present American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, USA
  • 1987 – Present American Association for the Advancement of Science, USA
  • 1990 – Present American Society for Cell Biology, USA
  • 2008 – Present American Association for Cancer Research, USA

 

 1.Banerjee, D.K. and Basu, D.:Isolation and Partial Characterization of Glycopeptide from Urine.  Indian J. Biochem. Biophys. 11, 141-143, 1974. 

2. Banerjee, D.K., and Basu, D.:Purification of Normal Human Urinary N-acetyl-b-D-Hexosaminidase A by Affinity Chromatography. Biochem. J. (London) 145, 113-118, 1975.
  

3. Banerjee, D.K., Basu, D. and Podder, S.K.:  Physico-chemical Studies on Human Urinary β-Hexosaminidase A.  Indian J. Biochem. Biophys. 14, 39-43, 1977.

4.Basu, D., Aruna, R.M., Banerjee, D.K. and Joseph, R.:  Biochemical Studies on Lipidosis in Indian Children.  Neurology (India)  26, 111-117, 1978.

5.Maheshwari, R.K., Banerjee, D.K., Waechter, C.J., Olden, K. and Friedman, R.M.:  Interferon Treatment Inhibits Glycosylation of a Viral Protein.  Nature 287, 454-455, 1980.

6. Banerjee, D.K., Scher, M.G. and Waechter, C.J.: Amphomycin: Effect of the Lipopeptide Antibiotic on the Glycosylation and Extraction of Dolicyl-monophosphate in Calf Brain Membranes.  Biochemistry 20, 1561-1568, 1981.

7. Banerjee, D.K.:  Bronchial Hyperreactivity Associated with Tracheal Gangliosides.  Science 218, 569-571, 1982.

8. Skurkovich, S., Skurkovich, B. and Banerjee, D.K.:  Interferon Increases Binding to Basophils.  Interferon Scientific Memoranda I-A1204, 1982.

9. Banerjee, D.K., Baksi, K. and Friedman, R.M.: Interferon-mediated Inhibition of Adenylate Cyclase in Mouse Cells.  J. Interferon Res. 2, 501-510, 1982.

10. Banerjee, D.K., Baksi, K. and Gottesman, M.:  Genetic Evidence that Action of cAMP-dependent Protein Kinase is Not an Obligatory Step for Anti-viral and Anti-proliferative Effects of Human Interferon in Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells.  Virology 129, 230-238, 1983.

11. Skurkovich, S., Skurkovich, B., Bellanti, J.A. and Banerjee, D.K.:  Interferon Increases IgE Binding to Basophiles.  Annals of Allergy 50, 305-308, 1983.

12. Youdim, M.B.H., Banerjee, D.K. and Pollard, H.B.:  Characterization of Monoamine Oxidase in Isolated Bovine Chromaffin Cells.  In: Monoamine Oxidase and Disease.  Prospects for Therapy with Reversible Inhibitors.  Eds. K.F.  Tipton, P.  Dostert and M. Strolin-Bendetti, pp. 599-601, 1984.  Academic Press, London

13. Youdim, M.B.H., Banerjee, D.K. and Pollard, H.B.:  Isolated Chromaffin Cells from Adrenal Medulla Contain Primarily Monoamine Oxidase B.  Science 224, 619-621, 1984.

14.  Kousvelari, E.E., Grant, S.R., Banerjee, D.K., Newby, M.J. and Baum, B.J.:  Cyclic AMP Mediates ß-Adrenergic Induced Elevations of N-linked Protein Glycosylation in Rat Parotid Acinar Cells.  Biochem. J. (London) 222, 17-24, 1984.

15. Banerjee, D.K., Ornberg, R.O., Youdim, M.B.H., Heldman, E. and Pollard, H.B.:  Endothelial Cells from Bovine Adrenal Medulla Develop Capillary-Like Growth Pattern in Culture.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA) 82, 4702-4706, 1985.

16.Banerjee, D.K., Kousvelari, E.E. and Baum, B.J.:  ß-Adrenergic Activation of Glycosyltransferases in the Dolichylmonophosphate-linked Pathway of Protein N-glycosylation.  Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 126, 123-129, 1985.

17. Grant, S.R., Kousvelari, E.E., Banerjee, D.K. and Baum, B.J.:  ß-Adrenergic Stimulation Alters Oligosaccharide-PP-Dolichol Metabolism in Rat Parotid Acinar Cells.  Biochem. J. (London), 231, 431-438, 1985.

18.Banerjee, D.K., Lutz, R.A., Rodbard, D., Levine, M.A., Pollard, H.B.:  Uptake of Norepinephrine and Related Catecholamines by Cultured Chromaffin Cells:  Characterization of Cocaine-sensitive and insensitive Plasma Membrane Transport Sites.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA) 84, 1749-1753, 1987.

19.Banerjee, D.K.:  Amphomycin: A Tool to Study Protein N-glycosylation.  J. Biosciences 11, 311-319, 1987.

20. Banerjee, D.K., Kousvelari, E.E. and Baum, B.J.:  cAMP-Mediated Protein Phosphorylation of Microsomal Membranes Modulate Man-P-Dol Synthase.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA) 84, 6389-6393, 1987.

21. Kousvelari, E.E., Banerjee, D.K., Murty, L. and Baum, B.J.:  N-linked Protein Glycosylation in the Rat Parotid Gland during Aging.  Mech. Aging and Dev. 42, 173-181, 1988.

22. Kousvelari, E.E., Banerjee, D.K., Grant, S.R. and Baum, B.J.:  ß- Adrenoreceptor Activation Accelerates Oligosaccharide Processing in an Exocrine Secretory Glycoprotein of Rat Parotid Cells.  Arch. Oral Biol. 33, 115-120, 1988.

23. Banerjee, D.K.:  Microenvironment of Endothelial Cell Growth and Man-P-Dol Synthase Activity.  Indian J. Biochem. Biophys. 25, 8-13, 1988

24. Youdim, M.B.H., Banerjee, D.K., Heldman, E. and Pollard, H.B.:  Hormonal Regulation of Catecholamine Oxidation and Release in Isolated PC12 Cells, Chromaffin Cells, and Endothelial Cells of the Adrenal Medulla.  Progress in Catecholamine Res., Part A:  Basic Aspects and Peripheral Mechanisms, pp. 115-119, 1988.  Alan R. Liss Inc.

25. Banerjee, D.K.:  Regulation of Mannosylphosphoryldolichol Synthase Activity by cAMP-dependent Protein Phosphorylation.  In:  Highlights of Modern Biochemistry.  Eds. A. Kotyk, J. Skoda, V. Paces and V. Kostka, pp. 379-388, 1989.  VSP International Science Publishers, Zeist.

26. Youdim, M.B.H., Banerjee, D.K., Kelner, K., Offutt, L. and Pollard, H.B.:  Steroid Regulation of Monoamine Oxidase Activity in the Adrenal Medulla.  FASEB J. 3, 1753-1759, 1989.

27.  Banerjee, D.K.:  Amphomycin Inhibits Mannosylphosphoryl dolichol Synthesis by Forming a Complex with Dolichyl monophosphate.  J. Biol. Chem. 264, 2024-2028, 1989.          

28.Oliveira, C.M. and Banerjee, D.K.:  Role of Extra-cellular Signaling on Endothelial Cell Proliferation and Protein N-glycosylation.   J. Cell. Physiol. 144, 467-472, 1990.

29. Brush, J.S., Tavarez, J.J. and Banerjee, D.K.:  Insulin and Insulin Like GrowthFactor-1 Manifests Differential Activity in a Clonal Capillary Endothelial Cell Line.  Biochemistry Intl. 25, 537-545, 1991.

30. Banerjee, D.K., Tavarez, J.J. and Oliveira, C.M.: Expression of Blood Clotting Factor VIII:C Gene in Capillary Endothelial Cells.  FEBS Letts. 306, 33-37, 1992.

31. Banerjee, D.K., Diaz, A.M., Campos, T.M., Grande, C. Kozek, W.J. and Baksi, K.:  Monoclonal Antibody to Amphomycin: A Tool to Study the Topography of Dolichyl monophosphate in the Membrane.  Carbohydrate Res. 236, 301-313, 1992.

32. Banerjee, D.K., Vendrell-Ramos, M.:  Is Asparagine-linked Protein Glycosylation anObligatory Requirement for Angiogenesis.  Indian J. Biochem. Biophys. 30, 389-394, 1993.

33. Banerjee, D.K.: A Recent Approach to Study the Topology of  Dolichyl Monophosphate in the Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum - Minireview.  Acta Biochimica Polonica. 41, 275-280, 1994.  

34.Das, S.K., Mukherjee, S., and Banerjee, D.K.:  ß-Adrenoreceptor of Multiple Affinities in a Clonal Capillary Endothelial Cell Line and its Relationship to Cellular Proliferation.  Mol. Cellular Biochem. 140, 49-54, 1994.

35.Banerjee, S.K., Campbell, D.R., Weston, A.P. and Banerjee, D.K.:  Biphasic Estrogen Response on Bovine Adrenal Medullary Capillary Endothelial Cell Adhesion, Proliferation and Tube Formation.  Mol. Cellular Biochem., 177, 97-105, 1997.

36. Banerjee, D.K., DaSilva, J.J., Aponte, E., Bigio, B., Martínez, J.A. and Carrasquillo, E.A.:  Importance of the Protein Phosphorylation Domain in Mannosylphospho Dolichol Synthase Function.  In : Frontiners in Biology and Biotechnology (Ed. Anna Oomen), pp. 21-23, 1997.

37. Banerjee, D.K. and Martínez, J.A. : Microvascular endothelial cells from adrenal medulla - A model for in vitro angiogenesis.  In: Models, Modulators, and Clinical Applications (ed. M. Maragoudakis), pp 7-18, 1998, Plenum Press, NY.

38. Banerjee, D.K.: Angiogenesis: Characterization of a cellular model.  PR Hlth Sci. J., 2, 327-333, 1998.

39. Martínez, J.A., Torres-Negrón, I., Amigó, L.A. and Banerjee, D.K.: Expression of Glc3Man9GlcNAc2-PP-Dol is a prerequisite for capillary endothelial cell proliferation.  Cellular Molec. Biol. (France), 45, 137-152, 1999

40.  Banerjee, D.K., DaSilva, J.J. and Bigio, B.: Mannosylphospho-dolichol synthase activity is associated with a 32kda phosphoprotein.  Bioscience Reports, 19, 169-177, 1999.

41. Martínez, J.A., Torres-Negrón, I., Amigó, L.A., and Banerjee, D.K.: Tunicamycin inhibits capillary endothelial cell proliferation by inducing apoptosis: targeting dolichol-pathway for generation of new ant-angiogenic therapeutics.  In: Angiogenesis: From the Molecular to Integrative Pharmacology (Ed. M. Maragoudakis).  Adv. Exptl. Med. Biol. 476, 197-208, 2000.

42. Chatterjee, S. and Banerjee, D.K.: The preparation, isolation and characterization of liposomes containing neutral lipids and synthetic lipids.  In: Liposomes Methods and Protocols (Eds. S. Basu and M. Basu), pp. 3-16, 2002.The Humana Press Inc., New Jersey, USA.

43. Tavarez, J.J. Oliveira, C.M. and Banerjee, D.K.:Insulin up-regulates aGlc3Man9GlcNAc2-PP-Dol pool in capillary endothelial cells Not essential for Angiogenesis.  Glycoconjugate J. 20, 179-188, 2004.

44. Banerjee, D.K., Aponte E., DaSilva, J.J.: Low expression of lipid-linked oligosaccharide due to a functionally altered Dol-P-Man synthase reduces protein glycosylation in cAMP-dependent protein kinase deficient Chinese hamster ovary cells.  Glycoconjugate J. 21, 479-486, 2004.

45. Banerjee, D.K., Carrasquillo, E.A. Hughey, P., Schutzbach, J.S., Martínez, J.A. and Baksi, K: In vitro phosphorylation by cAMP-dependent protein kinase upregulates recombinant S. cerevisiae mannosylphospho dolichol synthase. J. Biol. Chem.280, 4174-4181, 2005.

46. Martínez, J.A., Tavárez J.J., Oliveira, C.M. and Banerjee, D.K.:  Potentiation of Angiogenic Switch in Capillary Endothelial Cells by cAMP: A Cross Talk Between Up-regulated LLO Biosynthesis and the HSP-70 Expression.  Glycoconjugate J. 23, 211-222, 2006.

47. Banerjee, D.K.: Requirement of protein kinase type I for cAMP-mediated up-regulation of lipid-linked oligosaccharide for asparagines-linked glycosylation.  Mol Cellular Biol. 53, 68-74, 2006.

48. Banerjee, D.K., Baksi, K. and Martínez, J.A.:  Significance of Protein N-glycosylation in Angiogenesis.   In: Angiogenesis: basic Science and Clinical Applications (Eds. Maragaudakis, M.E. and Papadimitriou, E.), pp. 287-308, 2007.  Transworld Research Network, Trivandrum, India.

49. Baksi, K., Tavárez-Pagán, J.J., Martínez, J.A., and Banerjee, D.K.: Unique structural motif supports mannosylphospho dolichol synthase: An important angiogenesis regulator.  Current Drug Targets 9, 262-271, 2008.

50.  Baksi, K., Zhang, Z., Banerjee, A. and Banerjee, D.K.: Cloning and Expression of Mannosylphospho Dolichol Synthase from Bovine Adrenal Medullary Capillary Endothelial Cells.  Glycoconj. J. 26, 635-645, 2009.

51. Zhang, Z., Banerjee, A., Baksi, K. and Banerjee, D.K.: Mannosylphospho dolichol synthase overexpression supports angiogenesis.  Biocatalysis and Biotransformation 28, 90-98, 2010.

52. Banerjee, D.K., Oliveira, C.M.,Tavárez, J.J.,  Katiyar, B., Saha, S., Martínez, J.A. Banerjee, A., Sanchez, A. and Baksi, K.: Importance of Factor VIIIc-like Glycoprotein expressed in capillary endothelial cells (eFactor VIIIc) in Angiogenesis.  705, 453-464, 2011.

53. Banerjee, A., Lang, J.Y., Hung, M-C., Sengupta, K., Banerjee, S.K., Baksi, K. andBanerjee, D.K.: Unfolded protein response is required in nu/nu mice microvasculature for treating breast tumor with tunicamycin.  J. Biol. Chem.286, 29127-29138, 2011.

54. Banerjee, D.K.: N-Glycans in Cell Survival and Death:Cross-talk Between Glycosyltarnsferases.  Biochim. Biophys. Acta1820, 1338–1346, 2012.

55.  Longas, M.O., Kotapati, A., Prasad, K.P.V.R.K., Banerjee, A., Santiago, J., Baksi, K. and  Banerjee, D.K.: Balancing Life with Glycoconjugates: Monitoring Unfolded Protein Response-Mediated Anti-angiogenic Action of Tunicamycin by Raman Spectroscopy.  Pure and Appl. Chem.84, 1907-1918, 2012.

56. Banerjee, A., Johnson, K.T., Banerjee, I.A. and Banerjee, D.K.: Nanoformulation Enhances Anti-Angiogenic Efficacy of Tunicamycin. Transl Cancer Res 2, 240-255, 2013.

57. Banerjee, A., Longas, M.O., Martinez, J.A., Zhang, Z., Santiago, J., Baksi, K. and Banerjee, D.K.: N-Acetylglucosaminyl 1-Phosphate Transferase: An Excellent Target for Developing New Generation Breast Cancer Therapeutic.  AdvExp Med Biol. 842, 355-374, 2015.

58. Banerjee, D.K., Zhang, Z., Baksi, K. and Serrano-Negron, J.E.:  Dolichol Phosphate Mannose Synthase: A Glycosyltransferase with Unity in Molecular Diversities.  Glycoconjugate J.  34, 467-479, 2017.

59. Serrano-Negron, J.E., Zhang, Z., Rivera-Ruiz, A.P., Banerjee, A., Romero-Nutz, E.C., Sánchez-Torres, N., Baksi, K. and Banerjee, D.K.:  Tunicamycin-Induced ER Stress in Breast Cancer Cells Neither Expresses GRP78 on the Surface Nor Secretes in into the Media.  Glycobiology. 28, 61-68, 2018.

60. Zhang, Z., Serrano-Negron, J.E., Martínez, J.A., Baksi, K. and Banerjee, D.K.:  Dynamic Function of DPMS is Essential for Angiogenesis and Breast Cancer Progression.  In: Advances in Experimental Biology and Medicine (Eds. Chattopadhyay, K. and Basu, S.), Springer, NY, 2017 (Accepted).

61. Zhang, Z., Banerjee, A., Baksi, K. and Banerjee, D.K.:  Silencing Mannosylphospho Doilchol Synthase Gene by small hairpin RNA Down-regulates Angiogenesis (under preparation).

62. Banerjee, A., Martinez, J.A., Longas, M.O., Kotapati, A., Prasad, K.P.V.R.K., Pena de Ortiz, S., Ortiz-Zuazaga, H., Baksi, K. and Banerjee, D.K.:  Impairment of Mannosylphospho Dolichol Synthase Catalytic Activity Contributes to ER Stress-Mediated Unfolded Protein Response (under preparation).

63. Banerjee, A., Baksi, K., Duran. E. and Banerjee, D.K.:  Unfolded Protein Response Reduces the Survival Potential of IGF-1 Stimulated Capillary Endothelial Cells (under preparation).

64.  Martínez, J.A. and Banerjee, D.K.:  Active protein synthesis is Not required for inhibition of angiogenesis due to induction of apoptosis by the unfolded protein response.  (under preparation).

65.  Banerjee, D.K., Pollard, H.B., and Youdim, M.B.H.:  R-[3H]-Norepinephrine Uptake in Adrenal Medullary Capillary Endothelial Cells (under preparation).

65. Banerjee, D.K. and Tavarez, J.J  A novel glucose transporter in capillary endothelial cells (under preparation).   

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