On the reproducibility crisis in nanomedicine: an interview with Sourav Bhattacharjee

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Biography Sourav Bhattacharjee is a physician (MBBS) and graduated from Medical College and Hospital Kolkata (India). After postgraduate residential training in orthopedic surgery, he finished MSc in Biomolecular Sciences/Cell Biology from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2006–2008). His MSc thesis work was done in the Napier University (Edinburgh, UK). He began his PhD in the Wageningen University (The Netherlands) in 2008, which he successfully defended in 2012. Following that he worked for almost a year as postdoc in the University of Twente (The Netherlands). From March 2014, he joined UCD (Ireland) as postdoc trying to develop nanoparticulate platforms for oral insulin delivery as part of EU FP7 funded TRANS-INT consortium. From February 2016, he was appointed as Assistant Professor in the UCD where he is engaged now in developing a broad range of advanced nanobiotechnology-based and microscopic tools for effective diagnostic and therapeutic purposes in various diseases.