Dr. Bidhan C. Bandyopadhyay is an adjunct Professor of Medicine in the Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension at the George Washington University (GWU) School of Medicine & Health Sciences. He is a Senior Investigator & Chief of Calcium Signaling Laboratory, and Director of Imaging Core Laboratories at the Washington DC VA Medical Center (DCVAMC). He is also an Associate Professor (Research) at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Catholic University of America.
Dr. Bandyopadhyay received his BSc (Hons) & MSc in Physiology and PhD in Biochemistry from University of Calcutta, India. He received postdoctoral training in Pharmacology from Georgetown University and Molecular Biology from University of Maryland. Dr. Bandyopadhyay worked as a Fogarty International Research Scientist at NIH Intramural Research Program and received an Award from the Director of NIDCR. He was the recipient of the Joseph M. Krainin, M.D. Memorial Young Investigator Award from the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and now is on the medical advisory board of NKF in the national capital area. Dr. Bandyopadhyay was elected as the Board of Director, Institute for Clinical Research and received several outstanding Awards from DCVAMC. He served as a chair in DCVAMC Research and Development (R & D) subcommittee (SRSS and IACUC) and was a member (voting) of R & D committee. Dr. Bandyopadhyay also served as a member and co-chair in several NIH study sections.
Dr. Bandyopdhyay’s laboratory is dedicated to bench-bedside preclinical and translational research in collaboration with several investigators of the renal division to foster basic and translational research in medicine, which adds a new dimension to GWU’s research program. His Lab provides an innovative career transition research program, which helped many students, postbaccalaureate and residents for professional studies (PhD/MD/DDS/PharmD). Many of these students are now either engaged in medical practice or working as independent scientists/faculty within the US and abroad.
Dr. Bandyopadhyay received investigator-initiated NIH R01 grant (NIDDK) to study mechanism of Ca2+ transport in proximal tubule and NIH R21 grant (NIBIB) to study Lab-on-a-Chip model of kidney and cardiovascular diseases. Recently, he received several fundings from VA-ORD to study kidney stone disease including a VA merit grant on calcium nephrolithiasis and sex/gender mechanism. Many of his seminal research contributions and news making discoveries are published in top-notch journals viz JBC, RSC, Cell press and Nature journals, which were cited by 3196 articles (h-index 27).
Expertise and research interests
G-protein coupled receptor regulated Ca2+ transport in kidney, lung and salivary gland. Use of 3D microfluidics to reach a new level of understanding on biological crystallization including vascular calcification. Preclinical study to develop strategy to restore function for patients with CKD, COPD and TBI.