Faculty & Staff

Subhrajit Bhattacharya, PharmD, PhD

Dr. Subhrajit Bhattacharya is an Assistant Professor at the School of Pharmacy at KGI. He completed his Pharmacy degree from West Bengal, India (2009) where he received the highest rank in the state. After finishing his PhD in Neuropharmacology at Auburn University Harrison College of Pharmacy, Auburn AL, Dr. Bhattacharya continued research in neurology/medicine and specific diseases at the Department of Pharmacology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA (mentor: Dr. Stephen Traynelis). Here his work involved investigating disease mechanisms and pathology in patient derived cases of epilepsy and other related disorders. He also investigated mechanisms of dementia and altered plasticity in Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s Disease models. Subsequently, Dr. Bhattacharya has held faculty positions at the Auburn University and then joined KGI in 2022. Currently, Dr. Bhattacharya teaches Neurology courses in the P3 years at KGI. Additionally, he has an active research program aimed at drug discovery and signaling in AD and Epilepsy focused on excitation inhibition Balance in the brain.

The Bhattacharya lab is interested in neuroscience research. A range of scientific discoveries are needed to get a better understanding of complex neural networks specifically in the field of synaptic plasticity and how it is affected in diseases like epilepsy, AD and others. Dr. Bhattacharya investigates in-depth mechanisms of drug action in the CNS using cellular and animal models. Current research goals of the lab include 1) synaptic mechanisms of glutamate receptor subtype mediated activities and 2) electrophysiology aided drug development of NMDAR subtype-selective compounds in epilepsy and AD. His lab has recently developed novel biased modulator compounds for the NMDA receptors that will be tested for dementia and other disease states. This laboratory has active PhD student positions.