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Saikat Manna

Saikat Manna BSc, MSc, PhD

Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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Saikat Manna completed his Bachelors and Masters in India majoring in Chemistry and came to USA with the hope of doing better science. He worked with Dr. Stuart Lindsay and Dr. Peiming Zhang in his Ph.D. on various projects primarily focused on developing techniques to study multivalent interactions using AFM and SPR. He also worked on synthesis of antibody-drug conjugates and cross-linking proteins to develop antibody mimics. Following this, he joined as a post-doc at UC, Irvine to work on immune programming, primarily focusing on Inflammasome activation and developing multiple Pattern Recognition Receptor agonist conjugates. After a year in sunny California, He moved to Chicago along with the rest of the Esser-Kahn lab.
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