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The Princeton Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellows program, now in its fifth year, has selected Urbashi Basu as one of 15 scholars for its 2024 cohort. Urbashi Basu joins the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. This program recognizes and supports outstanding scholars primed to make important contributions in their fields.
In the Department of Molecular Biology, Basu will contribute to the University’s excellence and diversity, with financial support provided for up to two years at full salary.
“These scholars are addressing some of the biggest challenges facing humankind — our resistance to infection, how our cells interact ‘socially,’ and how we weather the rise of economic and environmental insecurities,” said Frederick Wherry, vice dean for diversity and inclusion in the Office of the Dean of Faculty and the Townsend Martin, Class of 1917 Professor of Sociology.
Fellow Urbashi Basu, advised by assistant professor of molecular biology John Brooks, is aiming to understand the molecular mechanisms that underlie circadian clock regulation of immune functions and the impact of this regulation on resistance to infection across the day-night cycle.
Basu holds a Ph.D. in biology from the National Centre for Biological Sciences at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, an M.Sc. in biotechnology and a B.Sc. in microbiology from the University of Calcutta, India.
