My main areas of interests are mitochondria biology, drug resistance and understanding various molecular interplays in cellular response to chemotherapeutic drugs.

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• Junior and Senior Research Fellowships from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

• Passed Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (Life Sciences) with a percentile score of 98.96

• DST-INSPIRE Faculty fellow 2014

• FEMS Young Scientist Meeting Grant Award (YSMG) - 2013 from Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS).

• Carl Storm International Diversity Fellowship 2014 from Gordon Research Conferences.

• Nature Travel Grant (GRC-Cell Death) 2014 from Nature Publishing Group.

• CSIR international conference travel grant 2013.

• DBT-CTEP international conference travel grant 2013.

• ICMR international conference travel grant 2014.

• DST-SERB international conference travel grant 2014.

• Best Poster presentations awards at international conferences

• Awarded Summer Research Fellowship by Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Science and National Academy of Science.

• Obtained Certificate of Merit in All India Talent Search Examination. 1999.

List of major publications:

• Devanjan Sinha, Neha Joshi, Balasubramanyam Chittoor, Priyanka Samji, Patrick D Silva (2010), Role of Magmas in protein transport and human mitochondrial biogenesis. Human Molecular Genetics 19, 1248-1262.

• Devanjan Sinha, Patrick D Silva (2014), Chaperoning mitochondrial permeability transition: Regulation of transition pore complex by a J-protein, DnaJC15 Cell Death and Disease Mar 6;5 e1101

• Devanjan Sinha, Shubhi Srivastava, Lekshmi Krishna, Patrick D Silva (2014), Unraveling the intricate architecture of human mitochondrial inner membrane presequence translocases and their role in tumourigenicity Molecular and Cellular Biology 34 (10) 1757-1775,

• Amit Vernekar*, Devanjan Sinha*, Shubhi Srivastava, Prasath U.P., Patrick D Silva, G. Mugesh (2014) An Antioxidant Nanozyme that Uncovers the Cytoprotective Potential of Vanadia Nanowires (*Joint First Authors) Nature Communications 5:5301

• Shubhi Srivastava, Devanjan Sinha, Prasenjit Prasad Saha, Hymavati Marthala, Patrick D Silva (2014) Magmas functions as a ROS regulator and provides cytoprotection against oxidative-stress mediated damages Cell Death and Disease 5, e1394; doi:10.1038/cddis.2014.355

• Arvind Vittal Goswami, Madhuja Samaddar, Devanjan Sinha, Jaya Purushotham, and Patrick D Silva (2012) Enhanced J-protein interaction and compromised protein stability of mtHsp70 variants lead to mitochondrial dysfunction in Parkinson's disease Human Molecular Genetics 21 (15), 3317-3332

• Ratheesh Kumar R, Nagarajan N.S, Arunraj S.P, Devanjan Sinha, Vinoth Babu Veedin Rajan, Vinoth Kumar Esthaki, and Patrick D Silva (2012). HSPIR: A manually annotated Heat Shock Protein Information Resource. Bioinformatics 28 (21), 2853-2855

• Prasenjit Prasad Saha, Praveen Kumar S. K., Shubhi Srivastava*, Devanjan Sinha*, Gautam Pareek, Patrick D Silva (2014), Multiple defects associated with novel ISCU mutation leads to mitochondrial dysfunction and Myopathy Journal of Biological Chemistry, 28 (21) 2853-2855, doi:10.1074/jbc.M113.526665 (*Joint authorship)

• Prasenjit Prasad Saha, Shubhi Srivastava, Praveen Kumar S. K., Devanjan Sinha and Patrick D Silva (2015) Mapping key residues of ISD11 critical for NFS1-ISD11 subcomplex stability: Implications in the development of mitochondrial disorder, COXPD19 Journal of Biological Chemistry, 290, 25876-25890.

Full List of Publications:

• Devanjan Sinha, Neha Joshi, Balasubramanyam Chittoor, Priyanka Samji, Patrick D Silva (2010), Role of Magmas in protein transport and human mitochondrial biogenesis. Human Molecular Genetics 19, 1248-1262.

• Devanjan Sinha, Patrick D Silva (2014), Chaperoning mitochondrial permeability transition: Regulation of transition pore complex by a J-protein, DnaJC15 Cell Death and Disease Mar 6;5:e1101

• Devanjan Sinha, Shubhi Srivastava, Lekshmi Krishna, Patrick D Silva (2014), Unraveling the intricate architecture of human mitochondrial inner membrane presequence translocases and their role in tumourigenicity Molecular and Cellular Biology 34 (10) 1757-1775,

• Amit Vernekar*, Devanjan Sinha*, Shubhi Srivastava, Prasath U.P., Patrick D Silva, G. Mugesh (2014) An Antioxidant Nanozyme that Uncovers the Cytoprotective Potential of Vanadia Nanowires (*Joint First Authors) Nature Communications 5:5301

• Shubhi Srivastava, Devanjan Sinha, Prasenjit Prasad Saha, Hymavati Marthala, Patrick D Silva (2014) Magmas functions as a ROS regulator and provides cytoprotection against oxidative-stress mediated damages Cell Death and Disease 5, e1394; doi:10.1038/cddis.2014.355

• Arvind Vittal Goswami, Madhuja Samaddar, Devanjan Sinha, Jaya Purushotham, and Patrick D Silva (2012) Enhanced J-protein interaction and compromised protein stability of mtHsp70 variants lead to mitochondrial dysfunction in Parkinson's disease Human Molecular Genetics 21 (15), 3317-3332

• Ratheesh Kumar R, Nagarajan N.S, Arunraj S.P, Devanjan Sinha, Vinoth Babu Veedin Rajan, Vinoth Kumar Esthaki, and Patrick D Silva (2012). "HSPIR: A manually annotated Heat Shock Protein Information Resource." Bioinformatics 28 (21), 2853-2855

• Prasenjit Prasad Saha, Praveen Kumar S. K., Shubhi Srivastava*, Devanjan Sinha*, Gautam Pareek, Patrick D Silva (2014), Multiple defects associated with novel ISCU mutation leads to mitochondrial dysfunction and Myopathy Journal of Biological Chemistry, 28 (21) 2853-2855, doi:10.1074/jbc.M113.526665 (*Joint authorship)

• Prasenjit Prasad Saha, Shubhi Srivastava, Praveen Kumar S. K., Devanjan Sinha and Patrick D Silva (2015) Mapping key residues of ISD11 critical for NFS1-ISD11 subcomplex stability: Implications in the development of mitochondrial disorder, COXPD19 Journal of Biological Chemistry, 290, 25876-25890.