Dr. Subrata Chakrabarti

Degrees
MBBS – University of Calcutta, India
PhD – (Physiology and Pathology) University of Manitoba, Canada
Current position
Deputy Director,Singapore Bioimaging Consortium, A*STAR, Singapore
Associate Professor, Duke-National University Singapore

Appointments
Chair, Canadian Diabetes Association operating grant review committee
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada grant review committee member
National Cancer Institute of Canada grant review committee member
Editorial board member, Experimental Diabetes Research
Editorial board member, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
World discoveries team for Technology Transfer to China team member
Member – National research council Canadian Diabetes Association
Listed in Maraquis Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare

Consulting experience
Miles Pharmaceutical Inc.
SangStat Inc.
Viron Therapeutic Inc.
Dept. of Pathology, Kuwait University
Clinical Outcome Technologies Inc.

Biography
Subrata Chakrabarti is Chair of the Dept. of Pathology at Western University. He is also Chief of Pathology and laboratory medicine at the London Health Sc. Ctr. and St. Joseph’s Health care, London, Ontario. Dr. Chakrabarti is a Clinician scientist. Along with his administrative responsibilities, he works as an anatomic pathologist in the hospital and a researcher and teacher in the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry. He received his medical degree from India and his PhD from the University of Manitoba. He further did post-doctoral fellowship and residency in Anatomical Pathology at the University of Manitoba. Following his FRCP (C) and a clinical fellowship at Yale University, he joined as a staff Pathologist at the London Health Sciences Centre and as Assistant Professor of Pathology at the University of Western Ontario in 1994. He was previously the Chair of the Graduate Education Program in pathology and director of molecular pathology laboratory. Currently, he is a full Professor of Pathology.

His research focuses on cardiovascular complications of diabetes. He investigates pathogenetic mechanisms of diabetic retinopathy, cardiomyopathy etc. He has received The Deans Excellence in Research from the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario and the Premier’s Research Excellence award from the Government of Ontario. He has supervised several graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. He has authored more than 160 peer-reviewed publications, in addition to a large number of book chapters and abstracts. He has presented his research in a large number of national and international conferences and delivered invited lectures in several academic institutions in North American, Europe and Asia. His research has been funded by CIHR, CDA and HSFO as well as local agencies. He has served on the grant review panels of the Canadian Diabetes Association, Canadian Institute of Health Research and National Cancer Institute of Canada and as a consultant for several companies.