Biswajoy Ghosh
Job description
Perform bioengineering research, innovate, and facilitate practical translation for society.
Summary: I am a researcher working at the intersection of biomedical science, microscopy, image analysis and material science, with a focus on bioengineering solutions in regenerative medicine and cancer. My interdisciplinary training allows me to integrate diverse fields, bringing unique insights into complex challenges like cell-matrix interactions. I make unique material and design them to mimic human organs in health and diseases. This allows us to study complex human diseases in small glass dishes and without sacrificing animals and involving human participants. This has driven innovations such as Cymoplive, a preclinical platform for cancer drug screening. By bridging scientific disciplines, I aim to transform research discoveries into impactful healthcare solutions. I am additionally recruiting local ecosystem, businesses, and infrastructure to integrate sustainable practices to achieve these solutions.
When I'm not in the lab, I prepare global cuisines in my kitchen to relax and energize.
Education:
- PhD, Medical Science and Technology (2021), Thesis: "Evaluating Fibrosis Linked with Wound Healing and Cancer Using Biophotonics and Biomechanics based Applications". Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
- Master of Technology, Medical Imaging and Informatics (2014), Thesis: "Correlating Ultrasonic Speckle Distribution to Functional State of a Lesion for Augmenting Specificity in Diagnostic Sonomammography". Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India and Masters Thesis jointly with Technical University of Munich, Germany.
- Bachelor of Technology in Biotechnology (2012), West Bengal University of Technology, India
Professional Affiliations: IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Soceity, TERMIS-Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Soceity, Biophysical Soceity, Sigma XI, Optica (Previosuly Optical Soceity of America).
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Publications outside Cristin
Journal Arcticles and Pre-prints:
- Butola, A., Ghosh, B., Park, J., Kwon, M., De la Cadena, A., Mukherjee, SS, Bhargava, R., Boppart, SA and Agarwal, K., 2024. Label-free correlative morpho-chemical tomography of 3D kidney mesangial cells. arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.10971. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2409.10971
- Ghosh, B. and Agarwal, K., 2024. Randomly oriented microgrooved hydrogel guides cellular motility, modulates speed, and governs directionality of cellular spread. bioRxiv, pp.2024-09. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.10.612339
- Ghosh, B., Agarwal, K., Habib, A., Agarwal, K. and Melandso, F., 2024. Label-free acoustic and optical microscopy of live tumor spheroids in hydrogel for high-throughput 3D In-vitro drug screening . bioRxiv, pp.2024-08. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.28.610181
- Ghosh, B., Chatterjee, J., Paul, RR, Acuña, S., Lahiri, P., Pal, M., Mitra, P. and Agarwal, K., 2024. Molecular histopathology of matrix proteins through autofluorescence super- resolution microscopy. Scientific Reports, 14(1), p.10524. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-61178-0
- Ghosh, B. and Agarwal, K., 2023. Viewing life without labels under optical microscopes. Communications Biology, 6(1), p.559.https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04934-8
- Kumar, N., Ghosh, B., Kumar, A., Koley, R., Dhara, S. and Chattopadhyay, S., 2023. Multilayered “SMART” hydrogel systems for on-site drug delivery applications. Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology, 80, p.104111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jddst.2022.104111
- Ghosh, B., Fenton, K.A. and Agarwal, K., 2023. Mechano-chemical Insights in Diabetic Kidney Disease through 3D Pathotypic Model of Mesangium. bioRxiv, pp.2023-12. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.12.10.571017
- Bhowmik, A., Ghosh, B., Pal, M., Paul, R.R., Chatterjee, J. and Chakraborty, S., 2022. Portable, handheld, and affordable blood perfusion imager for screening of subsurface cancer in resource-limited settings. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(2), p.e2026201119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2026201119
- Ghosh, B., Chatterjee, S., Dhakar, R., Muley, S., Mitra, P. and Chatterjee, J., 2021. Arecanut-induced fibrosis display dual phases of reorganising glycans and amides in skin extracellular matrix. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 185, pp.251-263. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2021.06.093
- Nandi, S., Ghosh, B., Ghosh, M., Layek, S., Nandi, P.K. and Sarkar, N., 2021. Phenylalanine Interacts with Oleic Acid-Based Vesicle Membrane. Understanding the Molecular Role of Fibril–Vesicle Interaction under the Context of Phenylketonuria. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 125(34), pp.9776-9793. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c05592
- Lahiri, P., Mukherjee, S., Ghosh, B., Das, D., Lahiri, B., Varshney, S.K., Pal, M., Paul, R.R. and Chatterjee, J., 2021. Comprehensive evaluation of PAXgene fixation on oral cancer tissues using routine histology, immunohistochemistry, and FTIR microspectroscopy. Biomolecules, 11(6), p.889. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom11060889
- Ghosh, B., Bhandari, A., Mandal, M., Paul, R.R., Pal, M., Mitra, P. and Chatterjee, J., 2021. Quantitative in situ imaging and grading of oral precancer with attenuation corrected-optical coherence tomography. Oral oncology, 117, p.105216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oraloncology.2021.105216
- Chatterjee, R., Ghosh, B., Mandal, M., Nawn, D., Banerjee, S., Pal, M., Paul, R.R., Banerjee, S. and Chatterjee, J., 2021. Pathophysiological relationship between hypoxia associated oxidative stress, Epithelial-mesenchymal transition, stemness acquisition and alteration of Shh/Gli-1 axis during oral sub-mucous fibrosis and oral squamous cell carcinoma. European Journal of Cell Biology, 100(1), p.151146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejcb.2020.151146
- Ghosh, B., Mandal, M., Mitra, P. and Chatterjee, J., 2021. Attenuation corrected‐optical coherence tomography for quantitative assessment of skin wound healing and scar morphology. Journal of Biophotonics, 14(4), p.e202000357. https://doi.org/10.1002/jbio.202000357
- Ghosh, B., Chatterjee, J., Paul, R., Lahiri, P., Pal, M., Mitra, P., Ahluwalia, B.S. and Agarwal, K., 2020. tAF-MUSICAL: autofluorescence super-resolution microscopy for molecular histopathology of matrix proteins in fibrotic diseases. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-101219/v1
- Mandal, M., Ghosh, B., Rajput, M. and Chatterjee, J., 2020. Impact of intercellular connectivity on epithelial mesenchymal transition plasticity. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular Cell Research, 1867(10), p.118784. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbamcr.2020.118784
- Ghosh, B., Mandal, M., Mitra, P. and Chatterjee, J., 2021. Structural mechanics modeling reveals stress-adaptive features of cutaneous scars. Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology, 20, pp.371-377. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10237-020-01384-7
- Ghosh, B., Kumar, N., Singh, N., Sadhu, A.K., Ghosh, N., Mitra, P. and Chatterjee, J., 2020. A quantitative lung computed tomography image feature for multi-center severity assessment of COVID-19. MedRxiv, pp.2020-07. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.13.20152231
- Kundu, S., Ghosh, B., Nandi, S., Ghosh, M., Pyne, A., Chatterjee, J. and Sarkar, N., 2020. Surface ligand-controlled wavelength-tunable luminescence of gold nanoclusters: cellular imaging and smart fluorescent probes for amyloid detection. ACS Applied Bio Materials, 3(7), pp.4282-4293. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsabm.0c00337
- Nandi, S., Pyne, A., Ghosh, M., Banerjee, P., Ghosh, B. and Sarkar, N., 2020. Antagonist effects of l-phenylalanine and the enantiomeric mixture containing d-phenylalanine on phospholipid vesicle membrane. Langmuir, 36(9), pp.2459-2473. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b03543
- Ghosh, B., Mandal, M., Mitra, P. and Chatterjee, J., 2017. Optical Coherence Tomography Reveals Mechanobiologically Stable Self-Organizing Di-Fork Architecture of Mice Cutaneous Scars i, ii. bioRxiv, p.181545. https://doi.org/10.1101/181545
- Mandal, M., Ghosh, B., Anura, A., Mitra, P., Pathak, T. and Chatterjee, J., 2016. Modeling continuum of epithelial mesenchymal transition plasticity. Integrative Biology, 8(2), pp.167-176. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5ib00219b
- Sarkar, A., Barui, A., Ghosh, B., Mukherjee, A., Sarkar, R., Sengupta, S. and Chatterjee, J., 2016. Autofluorescence signatures for classifying lung cells during epithelial mesenchymal transition. RSC advances, 6(81), pp.77953-77962. https://doi.org/10.1039/C6RA16866C
- De, B., Bhandari, K., Chakravorty, N., Mukherjee, R., Gundamaraju, R., Singla, R.K., Katakam, P., Adiki, S.K., Ghosh, B. and Mitra, A., 2015. Computational pharmacokinetics and in vitro-in vivo correlation of anti-diabetic synergistic phyto-composite blend. World Journal of Diabetes, 6(11), p.1179. http://doi.org/10.4239/wjd.v6.i11.1179
Book and Book Chapters
- Ghosh, B. and Chatterjee, J., 2023. Advances in medical imaging for wound repair and regenerative medicine. In Regenerative Medicine: Emerging Techniques to Translation Approaches (pp. 57-76). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6008-6_4
Conference Proceedings:
- Butola, A., Ghosh, B., Park, J., Kwon, M., De la Cadena, A., Mukherjee, S., Bhargava, R., Boppart, SA and Agarwal, K., 2024, June. Morphological imaging of 3D cultured kidney mesangial cells using gradient light interference microscopy. In Digital Holography and Three-Dimensional Imaging (pp. M2B-4). Optica Publishing Group. https://doi.org/10.1364/DH.2024.M2B.4
- Ghosh, B., Fenton, K.A., and Agarwal, K. Microenvironment In 3d Hydrogels For Studying Chronic Kidney Diseases. Tissue Engineering International and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS), 2024, June, Seattle, US. https://doi.org/10.1089/ten.tea.2024.06979.abs
- Agarwal, K. and Ghosh, B. Influence of GelMA-Chitosan Composite on In Vitro Fibroblast Cell Proliferation. Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS), 2024, June, Seattle, US. https://doi.org/10.1089/ten.tea.2024.06979.abs
- Ghosh, B. and Agarwal, K., 2024. Kidney mesangium organotypic culture reveals co-stimulatory mechano-chemical interplay for fibrotic manifestation. Biophysical Journal, 123(3), p.405a. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2023.11.2483
- Corrio, C., Le Gac, J., Schulte, L.W., Ghosh, B., and Agarwal, K.. GelMA-Chitosan-Polyethylene
Oxide Composite Enhances Proliferation of Fibroblast Cells In-Vitro. European Research Materials
Society (EMRS), Warsaw, Portugal, 2023. - Ghosh, B., Acuna, S., Agarwal, K. MUSI-tAF: Autofluorescence-based Super-Resolution of Colla-
gen Fibrils in Fixed Tissues for Density Estimation, Focus on Microscopy (FOM) 2023. - Ghosh,B., Fenton, K.A., and Agarwal, K. Gradient Light Interface Microscopy for Label-free
Detection of Early Changes in kidney Cells Embedded in a Soft and Stiff Hydrogel Matrix, Focus
on Microscopy (FOM) 2023. - Ghosh, B. and Agarwal, K., 2023, July. GelMA hydrogel mechanics affect the collective migration of fibroblast cells. In TISSUE ENGINEERING PART A (Vol. 29, No. 13-14). 140 HUGUENOT STREET, 3RD FL, NEW ROCHELLE, NY 10801 USA: MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC. https://doi.org/10.1089/ten.tea.2023.29043.abstracts
- Ghosh, B., Chatterjee, J., 2019, Scarring in an areca nut-induced fibrotic skin tissue environment, TERMIS EU 2019, Rodos, Greece. Conference Proceedings
- Ghosh, B., Chatterjee, J., Attenuation Normalization in Tissue Optical Coherence Tomography, 40th Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference-2018, Hawai, Honolulu, USA. Conference Proceedings
- Ghosh, B., Muley, S., Chatterjee, J., Automated Hidden Peak Extraction in FTIR Spectra for Fibrotic Skin Tissues, 40th Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference-2018, Hawai, Honolulu, USA. Conference Proceedings
- Mandal, M., Ghosh, B., Anura, A., Mitra, P., Pathak, T. and Chatterjee, J., Cellular plasticity derived interaction modelling of epithelial mesenchymal transition, ICCB 2018. Hyderabad, 26-31 January 2018. Conference Proceedings
- Agarwal, K., Ghosh, B., Wolfson, D. L., Oie, C. I., Chatterjee, J., and Singh Ahluwalia, B. S., Computational Nanoscopy Using Multiple Signal Classification Algorithm (MUSICAL) for Fluorescence Imaging, PIERS 2017, NUS, Singapore. Conference Proceedings
- Muley,S., Ghosh, B., Sharma, A., Chatterjee, J., Framework for Automated Identification of Spectral Hidden Peaks of Skin Tissue Structure Relevant Signatures from Concomitant Raman-FTIR Spectroscopy, PIERS 2017, NUS, Singapore. Conference Proceedings
- Sharma, A., Ghosh, B., Muley,S., Chatterjee, J., Non-invasive Depth of Field Estimation of Skin Vascularity Using 5-Filter Multispectral Imaging, PIERS 2017, NUS, Singapore. Conference Proceedings
- Ghosh, B., Karri, S.P.K., Sheet, D., Garud, H., Ghosh, A., Ray, A.K. and Chatterjee, J., 2016, December. A generalized framework for stain separation in digital pathology applications. In 2016 IEEE Annual India Conference (INDICON) (pp. 1-4). IEEE.https://doi.org/10.1109/INDICON.2016.7839070
- Ghosh, B., P., Chatterjee, J., A Semi-Supervised Algorithm for Quantification of Tissue Abnormality in Oral Pre-Cancer Histopathology", International CME in Pathology, 7 February 2015.
- Mandal, M., Chaudhary, A., Ghosh, B., Chatterjee, J., Dynamism of E-cadherin and β-catenin Relation in Malignancy, 5th International Conference on Stem Cells and Cancer (ICSCC-2014) Proliferation, Differentiation and Apoptosis, New Delhi, 8-10 November 2014.
Patent filings and Invention Disclosures:
- MarGel- Invention disclosure filed on Sep 2024.
- CellTraceD- Invention disclosure filed on Sep 2024
- Cytomotility & Cytoplasticity in vitro live cell assay (Cymoplive), UK International Patent Application 2309453.5 filed on 22nd June 2023.
- Fiber resolution targets (FiRsT), Invention disclosure in Dec 2021, UK International Patent Application 2309111.9 filed on 16th June 2023.
PhD Thesis: Ghosh, B., 2021. Evaluating Fibrosis Linked With Wound Healing and Cancer Using Biophotonics and Biomechanics Based Applications (Doctoral dissertation, IIT Kharagpur).
Research interests
Key words: Optical imaging, wound healing, cancer, fibrosis, 3D in vitro disease models, biomaterial, mechanobiology, medical image analysis.
Skills : Histology, Advanced Light Microscopy, Fluorescence microscopy - Fluorescence microscopy, Immunofluorescence, Molecular Cell Biology, Digital Image Analysis, Comsol Multiphysics, MATLAB, Cell Culture, Hydrogel, Confocal Microscope, FTIR - Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, Label-free imaging, Laboratory Animals, Optical Coherence Tomography, Atomic Force Microscopy, Nanoindentation, Ultrasound imaging.