Biography
Moumita’s academic and research background is rooted in biomarker discovery and development for infectious diseases like Dengue at the School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata (2019-2025; registered with Jadavpur University). Her PhD research focused on the identification and evaluation of patient derived blood-based biomarkers for predicting dengue severity. She designed and executed a series of experiments integrating LCMS/MS–based proteomic analysis, followed by validation. Additionally, her work involved the synthesis and characterization of nanoparticles to develop point-of-care immunoassay.
During her Post-PhD (Research intern) at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, exploring the study of macrophage infiltration into pancreatic islets disrupts vital β-cell function through direct crosstalk, contributing to the progression of diabetes.
Research Areas
Currently at SKAN-RT, Moumita is currently investigating regional heterogeneity in Parkinson’s disease (PD) brains using postmortem tissue derived from the Indian population.
Publications
- Paul, M., et al. (2024). Decreased Thrombospondin-1 Titers Are Hallmarks of Patients with Severe Dengue Infection. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., India, Sect. B Biol. Sci. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40011-024-01586-4 .
- Paul, M., et al. (2023). Development of a novel lectin-based gold nanoparticle point-of-care immunoassay for rapid diagnosis of patients with severe Dengue infection. Journal of Immunoassay and Immunochemistry, 1-18. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37789768/ .
- Paul, M., et al. (2021). In Silico Molecular Docking and in Vitro Analysis of Eugenol as Free Radical Scavenger in Patients with Dengue Infection. In Advances in Medical Physics and Healthcare Engineering (pp. 583-594). Springer, Singapore. https://ouci.dntb.gov.ua/en/works/4k6eJMG7/ .
- Datta, S., Ghosh, M., Paul, M., et al. (2021). Comprehensive Investigation of Fever cases enrolled during 2019 Dengue outbreaks from three hyperendemic regions of North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, India. JMV. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34730296/ .
Conferences & Workshops
- Poster presentation at Annual Conference of Indian Immunology Society “IMMUNOCON-2024”
- Oral presentation at IEEE AMPHE 2020 Conference organized by Adamas University, Kolkata, India
- NIPER, Kolkata organized “Hands-on-training with a confocal microscope” (22-25 March 2022)
- 2nd International online flow cytometry course on “Flow Cytometry and its applications in Biomedical Sciences” organized by Trust for Education and Training in Cytometry (TETC) (1-4 September 2021)
Memberships & Awards
- Life membership of the Indian Immunology Society (IIS) (Membership No. LM/IIS/944/01/23)
- IMMUNOCON 2024 Travel Award
- Membership of International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society (in review)
