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Debanjan Bhattacharya, PhD

Research Instructor

Neurology & Rehabilitation Medicine | College of Medicine

Education/Credentials
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship: Emory University,
  • PhD: University of Calcutta,
  • MS: University of Calcutta,
Contact Information
Research Interests

Neuro-Oncology, Cancer Biology, Tumor modeling, Epigenetics, Drug discovery.

Peer Reviewed Publications

Bhattacharya, Debanjan; Barrile, Riccardo; Toukam, Donatien Kamdem; Gawali, Vaibhavkumar S; Kallay, Laura; Ahmed, Taukir; Brown, Hawley; Rezvanian, Sepideh; Karve, Aniruddha; Desai, Pankaj B; Medvedovic, Mario; Wang, Kyle; Ionascu, Dan; Harun, Nusrat; Vallabhapurapu, Subrahmanya; Wang, Chenran; Qi, Xiaoyang; Baschnagel, Andrew M; Kritzer, Joshua A; Cook, James M; Pomeranz Krummel, Daniel A; Sengupta, Soma 2024. GABA(A) Receptor Activation Drives GABARAP-Nix Mediated Autophagy to Radiation-Sensitize Primary and Brain-Metastatic Lung Adenocarcinoma Tumors. Cancers, 16 18,

Kallay, Laura; Gawali, Vaibhavkumar S; Toukam, Donatien Kamdem; Bhattacharya, Debanjan; Jenkins, Andrew; Sengupta, Soma; Pomeranz Krummel, Daniel A 2023. Screening Ion Channels in Cancer Cells. Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE, 196,

Shiu, Fu Hung; Wong, Jennifer C; Bhattacharya, Debanjan; Kuranaga, Yuki; Parag, Rashed R; Alsharif, Haifa A; Bhatnagar, Sushant; Van Meir, Erwin G; Escayg, Andrew 2023. Generation and initial characterization of mice lacking full-length BAI3 (ADGRB3) expression. Basic & clinical pharmacology & toxicology, ,

Lechpammer, Mirna; Rao, Rohan; Shah, Sanjit; Mirheydari, Mona; Bhattacharya, Debanjan; Koehler, Abigail; Toukam, Donatien Kamdem; Haworth, Kevin J; Pomeranz Krummel, Daniel; Sengupta, Soma 2022. Advances in Immunotherapy for the Treatment of Adult Glioblastoma: Overcoming Chemical and Physical Barriers. Cancers, 14 7,

Rao, Rohan; Shah, Sanjit; Bhattacharya, Debanjan; Toukam, Donatien Kamdem; Cáceres, Román; Pomeranz Krummel, Daniel A; Sengupta, Soma 2022. Ligand-Gated Ion Channels as Targets for Treatment and Management of Cancers. Frontiers in physiology, 13 , 839437

Acharya, Sagar; Chatterjee, Sirshendu; Chaudhuri, Suhnrita; Singh, Manoj Kumar; Bhattacharya, Debanjan; Bhattacharjee, Malabika; Ghosh, Anirban; Chaudhuri, Swapna 2021. Akt Phosphorylation Orchestrates T11TS Mediated Cell Cycle Arrest in Glioma Cells. Cancer investigation, 39 10, 854-870

Bhattacharya, Debanjan; Gawali, Vaibhavkumar S; Kallay, Laura; Toukam, Donatien K; Koehler, Abigail; Stambrook, Peter; Krummel, Daniel Pomeranz; Sengupta, Soma 2021. Therapeutically leveraging GABAA receptors in cancer. Experimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.), 246 19, 2128-2135

Kaluz, Stefan; Zhang, Qing; Kuranaga, Yuki; Yang, Hua; Osuka, Satoru; Bhattacharya, Debanjan; Devi, Narra S; Mun, Jiyoung; Wang, Wei; Zhang, Ruiwen; Goodman, Mark M; Grossniklaus, Hans E; Van Meir, Erwin G 2021. Targeting HIF-activated collagen prolyl 4-hydroxylase expression disrupts collagen deposition and blocks primary and metastatic uveal melanoma growth. Oncogene, 40 33, 5182-5191

Koehler, Abigail; Karve, Aniruddha; Desai, Pankaj; Arbiser, Jack; Plas, David R; Qi, Xiaoyang; Read, Renee D; Sasaki, Atsuo T; Gawali, Vaibhavkumar S; Toukam, Donatien K; Bhattacharya, Debanjan; Kallay, Laura; Pomeranz Krummel, Daniel A; Sengupta, Soma 2021. Reuse of Molecules for Glioblastoma Therapy. Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland), 14 2,

Pomeranz Krummel, Daniel A; Nasti, Tahseen H; Kaluzova, Milota; Kallay, Laura; Bhattacharya, Debanjan; Melms, Johannes C; Izar, Benjamin; Xu, Maxwell; Burnham, Andre; Ahmed, Taukir; Li, Guanguan; Lawson, David; Kowalski, Jeanne; Cao, Yichun; Switchenko, Jeffrey M; Ionascu, Dan; Cook, James M; Medvedovic, Mario; Jenkins, Andrew; Khan, Mohammad K; Sengupta, Soma 2021. Melanoma Cell Intrinsic GABAA Receptor Enhancement Potentiates Radiation and Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Response by Promoting Direct and T Cell-Mediated Antitumor Activity. International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 109 4, 1040-1053

Bhattacharya, Debanjan; Krummel, Daniel Pomeranz; Sengupta, Soma 2020. Pediatric cerebellar tumors: transcriptionally distinct but developmentally heterogeneous. Translational cancer research, 9 3, 1322-1325

Bhattacharya, Debanjan; Pomeroy, Scott L; Pomeranz Krummel, Daniel A; Sengupta, Soma 2020. Epigenetics and survivorship in pediatric brain tumor patients. Journal of neuro-oncology, 150 1, 77-83

Bhattacharya, Debanjan; Van Meir, Erwin G 2019. A simple genotyping method to detect small CRISPR-Cas9 induced indels by agarose gel electrophoresis. Scientific reports, 9 1, 4437

Maitra, Sayantan; Bhattacharya, Debanjan; Das, Stabak; Bhattacharya, Subhrajit 2019. Melatonin and its anti-glioma functions: a comprehensive review. Reviews in the neurosciences, 30 5, 527-541

Chaudhuri, Suhnrita; Singh, Manoj K; Bhattacharya, Debanjan; Datta, Ankur; Hazra, Iman; Mondal, Somnath; Faruk Sk Md, Omar; Ronsard, Larance; Ghosh, Tushar K; Chaudhuri, Swapna 2018. T11TS immunotherapy repairs PI3K-AKT signaling in T-cells: Clues toward enhanced T-cell survival in rat glioma model. Journal of cellular physiology, 233 2, 759-770

Zhu, Dan; Osuka, Satoru; Zhang, Zhaobin; Reichert, Zachery R; Yang, Liquan; Kanemura, Yonehiro; Jiang, Ying; You, Shuo; Zhang, Hanwen; Devi, Narra S; Bhattacharya, Debanjan; Takano, Shingo; Gillespie, G Yancey; Macdonald, Tobey; Tan, Chalet; Nishikawa, Ryo; Nelson, William G; Olson, Jeffrey J; Van Meir, Erwin G 2018. BAI1 Suppresses Medulloblastoma Formation by Protecting p53 from Mdm2-Mediated Degradation. Cancer cell, 33 6, 1004-1016.e5

Bhattacharya, Debanjan; Singh, Manoj Kumar; Chaudhuri, Suhnrita; Datta, Ankur; Chaudhuri, Swapna 2017. T11TS Treatment Augments Apoptosis of Glioma Associated Brain Endothelial Cells, Hint Toward Anti-Angiogenic Action in Glioma. Journal of cellular physiology, 232 3, 526-539

Datta, Ankur; Moitra, Saibal; Hazra, Iman; Mondal, Somnath; Das, Prasanta Kumar; Singh, Manoj Kumar; Chaudhuri, Suhnrita; Bhattacharya, Debanjan; Tripathi, Santanu Kumar; Chaudhuri, Swapna 2016. Specific allergen immunotherapy attenuates allergic airway inflammation in a rat model of Alstonia scholaris pollen induced airway allergy. International immunopharmacology, 30 , 111-120

Bhattacharya, Debanjan; Chaudhuri, Suhnrita; Singh, Manoj Kumar; Chaudhuri, Swapna 2015. T11TS inhibits Angiopoietin-1/Tie-2 signaling, EGFR activation and Raf/MEK/ERK pathway in brain endothelial cells restraining angiogenesis in glioma model. Experimental and molecular pathology, 98 3, 455-66

Chaudhuri, Suhnrita; Bhattacharya, Debanjan; Singh, Manoj Kumar; Moitra, Saibal; Ronsard, Larance; Ghosh, Tushar Kanti; Chaudhuri, Swapna 2015. Disease relevance of T11TS-induced T-cell signal transduction through the CD2-mediated calcineurin-NFAT pathway: Perspectives in glioma immunotherapy. Molecular immunology, 67 2 Pt B, 256-64

Singh, Manoj Kumar; Chaudhuri, Suhnrita; Bhattacharya, Debanjan; Kumar, Pankaj; Datta, Ankur; Chaudhuri, Swapna 2015. T11 target structure induced modulations of the pro-inflammatory and anti-infammatorycytokine expressions in experimental animals for glioma abrogation. International immunopharmacology, 24 2, 198-207

Chaudhuri, Suhnrita; Singh, Manoj Kumar; Bhattacharya, Debanjan; Acharya, Sagar; Chatterjee, Sirshendu; Kumar, Pankaj; Bhattacharjee, Pushpak; Basu, Anjan Kumar; Sa, Gaurisankar; Das, Tanya; Ghosh, Tushar Kanti; Chaudhuri, Swapna 2014. The novel immunotherapeutic molecule T11TS modulates glioma-induced changes of key components of the immunological synapse in favor of T cell activation and glioma abrogation. Journal of neuro-oncology, 120 1, 19-31

Singh, Manoj Kumar; Bhattacharya, Debanjan; Chaudhuri, Suhnrita; Acharya, Sagar; Kumar, Pankaj; Santra, Pranjal; Basu, Anjan Kumar; Chaudhuri, Swapna 2014. T11TS inhibits glioma angiogenesis by modulation of MMPs, TIMPs, with related integrin αv and TGF-β1 expressions. Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine, 35 3, 2231-46

Bhattacharya, Debanjan; Singh, Manoj Kumar; Chaudhuri, Suhnrita; Acharya, Sagar; Basu, Anjan Kumar; Chaudhuri, Swapna 2013. T11TS impedes glioma angiogenesis by inhibiting VEGF signaling and pro-survival PI3K/Akt/eNOS pathway with concomitant upregulation of PTEN in brain endothelial cells. Journal of neuro-oncology, 113 1, 13-25

Chaudhuri, Suhnrita; Acharya, Sagar; Chatterjee, Sirshendu; Kumar, Pankaj; Singh, Manoj Kumar; Bhattacharya, Debanjan; Basu, Anjan Kumar; Dasgupta, Shyamal; Flora, S J S; Chaudhuri, Swapna 2012. Therapeutic profile of T11TS vs. T11TS+MiADMSA: a hunt for a more effective therapeutic regimen for arsenic exposure. Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP, 13 6, 2943-8