Associate Professor in Precision Health
Arijit Mukhopadhyay specialises in Human Genetics & Genomics with over 23 years of research experience. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in Precision Health in the School of Science, Engineering and Environment at the University of Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom
Arijit has an h-index of 29 (>2850 citations), published 69 peer-reviewed well-cited publications in international journals and supervised 16 PhD students (12 completed, 4 ongoing). He has past and present collaborations with NHS and industry (UK and abroad) and have a consistent record of obtaining and managing research funds.
Arijit’s research is in the broad area of Healthy Ageing, which is a sustainable development goal (SDG-3) and the World Health Organization has marked the next 10 years as the ‘decade of healthy ageing’ (2020-2030).
In his laboratory, Arijit has developed the capabilities to investigate non-coding RNAs in small extra cellular vesicles amenable to requirements of non-invasive molecular biomarkers for diagnosis and prognosis. These vesicles can can cross the blood-brain barrier enabling detection in the accessible body fluids such as plasma, urine, saliva etc. He has recently joined the FASD group with a goal to discover novel non-invasive RNA biomarkers for prenatal alcohol exposure.