Dr. Banerjee graduated with a B.Sc. degree from University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India in 1979. He has received his M.Sc. & PhD from Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India in 1982, 1987 respectively. Dr. Banerjee’s professional experiences are Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA (2005-June 2007); Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA (2000- 2005); Assistant Scientist (Non-tenure-track faculty, comparable to Research Assistant Professor), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA (1998-2000) and Research Associate Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, with Dr. Terry Brown, 1993-1997.