Dr. Dipankar Das

Dipankar Das, MBBS, MS (Ophthalmology) works at Sri Sankaradeva Nethralaya,

Guwahati, Assam, India as a senior consultant in the ocular pathology, uveitis & neuro-

ophthalmology services. After completion of his ophthalmology residency in Guwahati

Medical College, Assam, he did a fellowship in general ophthalmology at Sri Sankaradeva

Nethralaya and another in ocular pathology at Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, under Dr.

Jyotirmay Biswas and Dr. S. Krishnakumar. He also completed a fellowship in uvea under

Dr. Biswas in 2002. At the conference of the ophthalmological society of Assam (OSA), he

had won the first Dr. K R Dutta best scientific paper award in 2004 for ‘CMV Retinitis: First

case report in north east India’. In 2014, he received the best scientific poster award in the

Uveitis Society of India annual conference in New Delhi, for his poster on ‘Parasitic Uveitis’.

In 2015, he got best scientific free paper award in ocular trauma society of India meet at

Guwahati, India. He had got many other awards as author and co-author for his scientific

works. He had delivered first Smt. Puspa Das Memorial Oration at the 46th ophthalmic

society of West Bengal (OSWB) meet 2015 on ‘Pathology of Retinoblastoma- Basics and

Advanced’. He has over 40 peer reviewed publications, more than 100 national &

international presentations and is a member of several state and national level ophthalmology

and pathology organizations. He had described a new rosette in pathology of retinoblastoma,

a childhood intraocular cancer. Further, he had coined “Efferocytosis” in retinoblastoma for

unique apoptotic changes in cancer biology and subsequently published in the journal of

cancer therapy.

Moreover, being a reviewer of various ophthalmic journals and associate editor (Eye &

Brain, Dove publications), Dr. Das is the reviewer of All India Ophthalmic conference

(AIOC) Instruction course/ free papers/ posters for the ophthalmic pathology/uvea section. In

2011, he did an observership in inflammation, uveitis and ophthalmic pathology at Doheny

Eye Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA under Prof. Narsing A

Rao. Currently, he is the co-investigator of DBT projects running in the institute. He has also

been a vital part as principal investigator of ongoing multicenter drug trials in uveitis. Apart

from active scientific research in basic and clinical ophthalmology, he has keen interests in

photography (macro and micro), poetry, painting, literature, theology and sports. Dr. Das had

recently published books on English poetry, titled ‘Reminiscences - In silent couplets!’ and

‘Sparks of Joy’ from Partridge India (a Penguin Random House Company).