Bhaskar C. Das is a Tenured Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences and director of Medicinal Chemistry at the Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences Long Island University, New York. Dr. Das also holds adjunct professor position at The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, The Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, and The Wake Forest School of Medicine, North Carolina. He did his Ph. D in synthetic organic chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, India, and M.Phil. from Delhi University India. He received his Postdoctoral training from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)-MA and Harvard Medical School (HMS)-MA and University of Tennessee-TN.
Dr. Das directs The Laboratory of Boron in Brain Biology at LIU and his research interests are to develop with/without boron containing small molecular probes/ (radio ligands) to study biology of Retinoic acid, Metabolic and oxidative signaling pathways for brain development to identify biomarkers and development of novel pharmacological agents for Neurodegenerative, Neuro-regenerative, and Neurodevelopmental diseases and Brain cancer-GBM. He has been active in training physicians and scientists at all levels. He has 38 world patents and 109 Peer-reviewed publications. He is reviewer, editor and associate editor on many international journals and also reviewer of many national and international funding agencies (National Institute of Health-NIH, National Science Foundation-NSF, VA, Alzheimer Associations, American Heart Association-AHA, Belgium, Bulgaria, India, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Spain Ministry Science and Education). Based on Dr. Das’s contribution to boron research in June 2014, he received prestigious “Boron in the Americas Award” (for Exceptional Service To Boron Research and Commitment To Excellence) and many national and international awards [2014 , Awarded as International Fellow of the JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2011Research Collaboration award (British Pharmacological Society) University of Aberdeen, UK, 2009-Young Investigator Award (Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Center excellence)].