Dr. JIAUR R. GAYEN
 
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Scientist C
Pharmacokinetics & Metabolism Division
Central Drug Research Institute
[CSIR Institute, Govt. of India]
Chattar Manzil Palace, Post Box No. 173
Lucknow - 226001, India
 
Educational Qualifications Ph.D., M. Pharm., A.I.C.
Date of Birth 25.12.1977
E-Mail jr.gayen@cdri.res.in
 
POSITION/EMPLOYMENT
 
02/2011- present : Scientist C, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India.
11/2010-01/2011: Assistant Project Scientist Step II; University of California-San Diego, USA.
02/2005-10/2010: Postdoctoral Fellow; School of Medicine, University of California-San Diego, USA.
06/2001-12/2004: Research Fellow; Bose Institute, Calcutta, India.
03/2001-05/2001: Lecturer; Himalayan Pharmacy College, Gangtok, India
 
HONORS/AWARDS
 
Associateship of Institution of Chemists (India) (A.I.C.)
Prof. Anupam Sengupta Memorial Medal from Jadavpur University, India.
 
RESEARCH INTEREST
 
Metabolic syndrome : [Hypertension, Obesity and Diabetes].
Regulation of hypertension, obesity and insulin-sensitivity by peptides derived from chromogranin-A using animal model and cell and molecular biology techniques. Translational effectiveness of granin family of proteins/peptides in Metabolic Syndrome diagnosis (Biomarker) and drug discovery.
Pharmacokinetics & Metabolism :
Pharmacokinetics and metabolic studies of pharmacologically/ therapeutically active compounds.
Phytochemistry :
Identification, isolation of active ingredients and pharmacological/therapeutical evaluation of medicinal plants. Exploring activity of natural products against hypertension, obesity and diabetes.
 
RECENT PUBLICATION : (Citation: sum of times cited - 157; average citation per year – 13.08) [Patent- 1; Original article- 28; Scientific abstract- 9]
 
Lu M, Sarruf D, Talukdar S, Sharma S, Li P, Bandyopadhyay G, Nalbandian S, Fan W, Gayen JR, Mahata SK, Webster N, Schwartz M, Olefsky JM; Brain Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Gamma Promotes Obesity and is Required for the Full Insulin-Sensitizing Effect of Thiazolidinediones. Nature Medicine (2011) [in press]
Zhang K, Chen Y, Wen G, Mahata M, Rao F, Fung MM, Vaingankar S, Biswas N, Gayen JR, Friese RS, Mahata SK, Hamilton BA, O'Connor DT; Catecholamine Storage Vesicles: Role of Core Protein Genetic Polymorphisms in Hypertension. Curr Hypertens Rep. (2011), 13(1): 36-45.
Chen Y, Rao F, Wen G, Gayen JR, Zhang K, Vaingankar SM, Biswas N, Mahata M, Friese RS, Fung MM, Salem RM, Nievergelt C, Bhatnagar V, Hook VY, Ziegler MG, Mahata SK, Hamilton BA, O’Connor DT; Naturally occurring genetic variants in human chromogranin A (CHGA) associated with hypertension as well as hypertensive renal disease. Cell Mol Neurobiol (2010), 30(8): 1395-1400.
Gayen JR, Zhang K, RamachandraRao S, Mahata M, Chen Y, Kim HS, Naviaux RK, Sharma K, Mahata SK, O’Connor DT; Role of reactive oxygen species in hyperadrenergic hypertension: Biochemical, physiological, and pharmacological evidence from targeted ablation of the chromogranin A (Chga) gene. Circulation Cardiovasc Genet (2010), 3(5): 414-25. [Featured on www.MDLinx.com site. MDLinx is the world's most up-to-date index of articles that matter in the daily lives of physicians and other healthcare professionals].
Dev NB, Gayen JR, O’Connor DT, Mahata SK; Chromogranin A and the autonomic system: Decomposition of heart rate variability and rescue by its catestatin fragment. Endocrinology (2010), 151(6): 2760-68.
Vaingankar SM, Li Y, Corti A, Biswas N, Gayen JR, O’Connor DT, Mahata SK: Long human CHGA flanking chromosome 14 sequense required for optimal BAC transgenic rescue of disease phenotypes in the mouse Chga knockout. Physiol Genomics (2010), 41(1): 91-101.
Vaingankar SM, Li Y, Biswas N, Gayen JR, Choksi S, Rao F, Mahata SK, O’Connor DT; Effect of Chromogranin-A deficiency and excess in vivo: biphasic blood pressure and catecholamine response. J Hypertension (2010), 28(4): 817-25.
Friese RS, Gayen JR, Mahapatra NR, Schmid-Schonbein G, Mahata SK and O’Connor DT; Global metabolic consequences of a monogenic model of hypertension: Transcriptomic detection, pathway identification, and experimental verification of dissociated features of the metabolic syndrome. Physiol Genomics (2010), 40(3): 195-207.
Gayen JR, Saberi M, Schenk S, Biswas N, Vaingankar S, Cheung W, Bandyopadhyay G, O’Connor DT, Mahata SK; A novel pathway of insulin sensitivity in chromogranin A null mice: A crucial roll for pancreastatin in glucose homeostasis. J Biol Chem (2009), 284(42): 28498-509.
Gayen JR, Gu Y, O’Connor DT, Mahata SK; Global disturbances in autonomic function yield cardiovascular instability and hypertension in the chromogranin A null mouse. Endocrinology (2009), 150(11): 5027-35.
Rana B, Wessel J, Mahaboubi M, Rao F, Haeller J, Gayen JR, Eskin E, Valle A, Das M, Mahata SK, O’Connor DT, Taylor P; Natural variation within the neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor cluster on human chromosome 15q24: Influence on heritable autonomic traits in the twin pairs. J Pharmacol Exp Therapeutics (2009), 331(2): 419-28.
Biswas N, Rodriguez-Flores JL, Courel M, Gayen JR, Vaingankar SM, Mahata M, Torpey JW, Taupenot L, O'Connor DT, Mahata SK: Cathepsin L co-localizes with chromogranin A in chromaffin vesicles to generate active peptides. Endocrinology (2009), 150(8): 3547-57.
Zhang K, Rao F, Rana BK, Gayen JR, Calegari F, King A, Rosa P, Huttner WB, Stridsberg M, Mahata M, Vaingankar S, Mahboubi V, Salem RM, Rodriguez JR, Smith D, Schork NJ, Ziegler M, Taupenot L, Mahata S and O’Connor DT: Autonomic function in hypertension: Role of genetic variation at the catecholamine storage vesicle protein chromogranin B (CHGB). Circulation Cardiovasc Genet (2009), 2: 46-56.
GM Portela-Gomes, JR Gayen, L Grimelius, M Stridsberg and SK Mahata: The importance of chromogranin A in the development and function of endocrine pancreas. Regulatory Peptides (2008), 151(1-3): 19-25.
Biswas N, Vaingankar SM, Mahata M, Das M, Gayen JR, Taupenot L, Torpey JW, O'Connor DT, Mahata SK: Proteolytic cleavage of human chromogranin A containing naturally occurring catestatin variants, differential processing at catestatin region by plasmin. Endocrinology (2008), Feb 149(2): 749-757.
JR Gayen, S B Majee, S Das and T B Samanta: Antibacterial and toxicological evaluation of ?eta-lactams synthesized by immobilized ?eta-lactamase-free penicillin amidase produced by Alcaligenes sp. Ind J Exp Biol (2007), 45: 1068-1072.
Rao F, Wen G, Gayen JR, Das M, Vaingankar SM, Rana BK, Mahata M, Kennedy BP, Salem R, Stridsberg M, Abel K, Smith D, Hamilton BA, Ziegler MG, Mahata SK and O’Connor DT; Catecholamine Release Inhibitory Peptide Catestatin (Chromogranin A352-372), naturally occurring amino acid varient Gly364Ser causes profound changes in human autonomic activity and alters risk of hypertension, Circulation (2007), May; 115(17):2271-81.
NR Mahapatra, M Mahata, S Ghosh, JR Gayen, DT O’Connor, S Mahata: Molecular basis of neuroendocrine cell type-specific expression of the chromogranin B gene: crucial role of the transcription factors CREB, AP-2, Egr-1 and Sp1; J Neurochem, (2006), 99: 119-133.
S Das, JR Gayen, A Pal, K Ghosh, JPN Rosazza and TB Samanta: Purification, substrate specificity, and N-terminal amino acid sequence analysis of a beta-lactamase-free penicillin amidase from Alcaligenes sp.; Applied Microbiol Biotechnol, (2004), 65: 281-286.
JR Gayen, P. Roy and T B Samanta (2004): 16S rDNA sequence of Alcaligenes sp. (A-13); EMBL/ DDBJ/GenBank accession number AJ716013.