AAAS Fellow.  M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Calcutta, India. Postdoctoral training at the Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Maryland Medical School, Baltimore, MD and the Laboratory of Cell Biology, NIDDKD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.  Visiting Professor/Scientist at the Center for Cancer, MIT, Cambridge, MA; Center for Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Phillips University, Marburg, Germany; Physical Biosciences Division, E.O. Lawrence Berkeley national Laboratory, Berkeley, CA.  Present and Past members of the Editorial Board:  Glycoconjugate Journal, Molecular & Cellular Biology Reports, Puerto Health Sciences Journal.  Recipient of Inventor’s Award from the US Department of Commerce, Hind Rattan Award, and Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Samman (Global Achiever Award) form the NRI Society.  Member of ASBMB, ASCB, Biochemical Society (UK), AACR, Sigma Xi, and the Society for Glycobiology. Publications in peer-review journals.  Presentations in scientific conferences as invited speaker/keynote speaker, etc.  Recipient of Patents from the United States Patents and Trademark Office.  Organized National and International Scientific Meetings. Trains students, postdoctoral fellows, and other professionals.