Yajnavalka Banerjee PhD, MSc, BSc

Dr. Yajnavalka Banerjee is the Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the College of Medicine, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences. He was awarded his PhD by The National University of Singapore in 2008. He pursued his postdoctoral studies at the prestigious Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, USA. He was then awarded the Alexander Humboldt Fellowship and was an independent Research Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Gottingen, Germany, another world-renowned institution. His most recent appointment was at the College of Medicine & Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman where he was the director of the Biomedical Sciences program, and involved in the teaching and coordination of Biochemistry courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.