Professor Partha Majumder

Partha P. Majumder holds a PhD in statistics.  He specialized in statistical genomics.  He is internationally renowned for his contributions to human population genetics and genomics and for developing novel statistical methodologies for mapping genes that underlie human diseases. He has identified the somatic alterations in the human genome that drive the normal human buccal tissue to develop oral cancer. He has published over 250 papers in journals of international renown. He is currently a National Science Chair of the Government of India.  He was invited by the Government of India to establish the first institute in India exclusively devoted to genomics of human diseases, the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics.

Within a short time after he founded the institute, it has gained a global reputation for human genome research and capacity-building.  Partha Majumder has served many international organizations, including the UNESCO, WHO, The World Academy of Sciences, the British Parliament and the U.S. National Institutes of Health. He was the Indian coordinator of the International Cancer Genome Consortium. Currently, he serves on the Executive Committees of the Human Genome Organisation and the Human Cell Atlas.  He is a Fellow of all science academies in India and has served as the President of the Indian Academy of Sciences and of the West Bengal Academy of Science & Technology. He has received many awards and honours. He has received the Biology Prize of The World Academy of Sciences, the Millennium Science Medal of the Indian Science Congress Association, the Golden Jubilee Commemoration Medal of the Indian National Science Academy.