Affiliation: University of Dundee; Yale School of Medicine

Prosenjit Pal, PhD, is a biochemist specializing in organelle biology, proteomics, and neurodegenerative disease mechanisms. He earned his PhD in neuroscience from the S. N. Pradhan Centre for Neurosciences, University of Calcutta, India, and received the Newton-Bhabha PhD Fellowship in 2016-2017. His earlier research focused on the population genetics of Parkinson’s disease. Dr. Pal is currently a senior research associate and CRN Discovery Fellow, funded by ASAP, in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit at the University of Dundee, where he works with Prof. Dario Alessi.

Through this fellowship, he is also affiliated with Yale School of Medicine, collaborating with Prof. Shawn Ferguson. He is an active member of the Biochemical Society and the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. His current research focuses on investigating the crosstalk between endolysosomal dysfunction and ciliogenesis in the context of Parkinson’s disease using mouse embryonic fibroblasts and human iPSC models.