The PI

Anupam grew up in Assam, a northeastern state in India. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Gauhati University and his master’s degree in chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati before moving to New York City to pursue a Ph.D. in chemical biology with Prof. Bobby Arora at NYU. In the Arora lab, Anupam developed chemical inhibitors targeting therapeutically relevant protein–protein interactions, with his thesis work focused on designing a peptide inhibitor of the Ras–Sos interaction.

After graduating from NYU, Anupam completed a brief postdoctoral fellowship with Prof. Tarun Kapoor at the Rockefeller University before joining Prof. Vamsi Mootha’s lab at Harvard Medical School. In the Mootha lab, Anupam shifted his research focus from chemical inhibitors to enzyme-based therapies for mitochondrial disease, where he engineered LOXCAT, an enzyme designed to alleviate systemic reductive stress caused by mitochondrial electron transport chain dysfunction.

In September 2021, Anupam launched his independent lab in the Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology at Emory University School of Medicine.

Outside the lab, Anupam enjoys traveling and outdoor adventures with his wife, Priti. He is also an avid landscape and astrophotographer.