Dr Sourav Haldar
Assistant Professor
Manipal Institute of Virology
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
| Degree | Specialisation | Institute | Year of passing |
|---|---|---|---|
| PhD | Membrane Biophysics | Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology(CCMB), Hyderabad, India | 2012 |
Experience
| Institution / Organisation | Designation | Role | Tenure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manipal Institute of Virology | Assistant Professor | 2026-Present | |
| CSIR-Central Drug Research Insitutute (CDRI), Lucknow | DBT-Ramalingaswami Fellow and AcSIR Assistanat Professor | 2022-2025 | |
| GITAM University Visakhapatnam, India | Assistant Professor | 2020-2021 | |
| Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Sweden | Researcher | 2019-2020 | |
| National Insitutes of Health (NIH),Bethesda, USA | Postdoctoral Fellow | 2013-2019 |
AREAS OF INTEREST, EXPERTISE AND RESEARCH
Area of Interest
• Viral entry and Fusion processes, Development of Novel Antiviral strategies, Membrane Organization and Dynamics,Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Microscopy, Lipososomes and model membranes
Area of Expertise
• Molecular Virology, Entry proceesses, Single-particle Fusion assay, Cell Biology, Spectroscopy and Microscopy, Model membranes and drug delivery vehicles
Area of Research
• Deciphering the viral entry and egress processes and development of Novel Pan-antiviral strategies
Professional Affiliations & Contributions
- Ramalingaswami Re-Entry Fellowship, Dept. of Biotechnology, Govt. of India, 2021.
- Selected participant at the Young Investigators Meet (organized by India Bioscience: https://indiabioscience.org), 2021
- Research Fellowship, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Sweden, 2019
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)/National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA, 2013
- Young Scientist Award, of the Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sciences (APAS), for the year 2012
- International Society of Neurochemistry (ISN) Fellowship to participate at The Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting held in Hyderabad, 2012
- Ratna Phadke (Young Scientist) Award, 7th Asian Biophysics Association (ABA) Symposium & Annual Meeting of the Indian Biophysical Society (IBS), New Delhi, 2011
- International Travel Grant (to visit Australia) from the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, 2010
- N.N. Dasgupta Award for the best poster in the Indian Biophysical Society (IBS) conference, New Delhi, 2007
- Senior Research Fellowship, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India, 2007
- Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), Conducted by Indian Institutes of Technologies (IIT)s and Indian Institute of Science, Rank: 328, 2005
- Junior Research Fellowship, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India, 2005
- National Scholarship, Govt. of West Bengal, Education Directorate
- Certificate of Merit (National Scholarship Scheme), Govt. of West Bengal, Education Department
- Panda, M., Qazi, B., Vishwakarma, V, Pattnaik, G.B., Haldar, S,* and Chakraborty, H* (2025) “Developing peptide-based fusion inhibitors as an antiviral strategy utilizing Coronin 1 as a template” (*corresponding author), RSC Med. Chem. 16:125-136
- Pandia,S., Qazi, B., Vishwakarma, V., Gautam, S., Meshram, C.D., Chakraborty, H*., and Haldar, S.* (2025) “Tryptophan-aspartic acid containing peptide analog from coronin 1 inhibits model membrane fusion and enveloped viral infection in cells” Langmuir doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.5c03627
- Archana, K., Qazi, B., Bohra, B., Tripathi, R.K*., and Haldar, S*. (2025) “25-Hydroxy Cholesterol Effectively Inhibits Japanese Encephalitis Virus Infection in a Cellular Model” Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun.780:152467 (doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2025.152467)
- Purohit, A., Chhatre, N., Qazi, B., Kumar,V., Haldar, S.*, and Bhattacharya, A.* (2025) “Pseudo-infection model: A bottom-up synthetic approach to cellular entry of enveloped viruses and virus-mimics” Small e12218 (doi.org/10.1002/smll.202412218)
- Haldar, S*. (2022) “Recent developments in single-virus fusion assay” J. Membr. Biol. 255: 747-755.
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1. Development of novel antiviral nanoparticles against enveloped viruses