- Gopal Kundu
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Gopal Kundu 
Born 2 November 1959
Bataspur, West BengalResidence Pune Nationality Indian Fields Cancer Institutions National Centre for Cell Science Known for Therapeutics; Biomarker (cell); Angiogenesis; Nanomedicine; Notable awards Indian National Bioscience award, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology Gopal Kundu (born 2 November 1959) is an Indian scientist. He obtained his Ph.D. from Bose Institute, Kolkata, India (1989) in protein biochemistry and did his post-doctoral research work at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, University of Colorado, University of Wyoming, and the National Institutes of Health from 1989 to 1998. He has performed work in the area of cardiovascular biology, inflammation and immunomodulation during that period. In 1998, he joined as Scientist-D at the National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), Pune.[1] At present, he is working as Scientist-F at NCCS. His area of research at NCCS is tumor biology, regulation of gene expression, cell signaling, angiogenesis, cancer therapeutics, biomarker studies for cancer detection, and nanomedicine.[2][3]
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Awards
In 2004 Kundu was awarded a Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology,[4][5] following the receipt of an earlier Indian National Bioscience award.[5]
Plagiarism controversy
A controversy erupted in the NCCS in 2006 when an anonymous mail alleged that Kundu and others might have misrepresented data in a paper published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. The allegation was that they had rehashed the same set of data which they had published earlier.[6] An internal committee of the NCCS advised the authors to take back their paper, however an independent committee led by G. Padmanabhan, a former director of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, concluded that there was no manipulation in the data.[7] This led to some heated debate between Indian Scientists with several viewpoints being presented.[8][9] On 23 February 2007, the Journal of Biological Chemistry withdrew the paper amid allegations of data manipulation, although the authors maintained that the two papers used different set of data though similar experiments.[10] In November 2010, after an internal investigation by its ethics committee, the Indian Academy of Sciences banned Gopal Kundu from participating in its activities for three years.[11]
Selected publications
- G C Kundu, G Mantile, L Miele, E Cordella-Miele, and A B Mukherjee (1996) "Recombinant human uteroglobin suppresses cellular invasiveness via a novel class of high-affinity cell surface binding site," PNAS, April 2, Vol. 93 (7), 2915-2919. [1]
- Gopal C. Kundu and Anil B. Mukherjee (1997) "Evidence That Porcine Pancreatic Phospholipase A2 via Its High Affinity Receptor Stimulates Extracellular Matrix Invasion by Normal and Cancer Cells," Journal of Biological Chemistry, January 24, Vol. 272 (4), 2346-2353. [2]
- Gopal C. Kundu, Asim K. Mandal, Zhongjian Zhang, Giuditta Mantile-Selvaggi and Anil B. Mukherjee (1998), "Uteroglobin (UG) Suppresses Extracellular Matrix Invasion by Normal and Cancer Cells That Express the High Affinity UG-binding Proteins," Journal of Biological Chemistry, August 28, Vol. 273 (35), 22819-22824. [3]
See also
References
- ^ "Dr. Gopal Kundu". NCCS. January 1 2001. http://www.nccs.res.in/gck.html.
- ^ "DBT neurobiology task force". Neurobiology. March 5 2004. http://dbt-neuro.ncbs.res.in/node/74.
- ^ "Curriculum vitae". apoptosis. August 20 2005. http://www.apoptosis2005.org/profiles/gopal_kundu.htm.
- ^ "PM presents Bhatnagar prizes to 21 scientists". The Times of India. September 29 2005. http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2005-09-29/india/27843451_1_science-technology-shanti-swarup-bhatnagar-science-teachers.
- ^ a b "Two Pune scientists bag Bhatnagar prize". The Times of India. September 29 2004. http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2004-09-29/pune/27152030_1_national-chemical-laboratory-ncl-national-bioscience-award.
- ^ "Kundu-JBC Case". Society for Scientific Values. http://www.scientificvalues.org/kundu_case.html.
- ^ G.S. mudur (March 6 2007). "Indicted there, acquitted here". The Telegraph. http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070306/asp/frontpage/story_7476120.asp.
- ^ S.P. Modak (June 10 2007). "Investigating Misconduct in Science" (PDF). Current Science 92 (11). http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/jun102007/1469.pdf.
- ^ G. Padmanabhan (June 10 2007). "The NCCS Case" (PDF). Current Science 92 (11). http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/jun102007/1469.pdf.
- ^ Hema Rangaswami (September 12 2007). "‘Coping with misconduct in Indian science’: a response". The Hindu (Chennai, India). http://www.hindu.com/2007/09/12/stories/2007091253571300.htm.
- ^ "‘Rehashing catches up - Once-acquitted biologist barred for 3 years’". The Telegraph (Kolkata, India). November 14 2010. http://www.telegraphindia.com/1101114/jsp/frontpage/story_13175152.jsp.
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