Prof. A.K Mukhopadhyay
Prof. & Head
(MBBS., MD., MNAMS.)
E-mail:
mukhoak53@yahoo.com
mukhoak1953@gmail.com
Personal Profile:
Dr. A. K. Mukhopadhyay is Professor of Laboratory Medicine since 01.07.2002, took over as the Head of the Department since 01.04.2006.
Medical graduate (MBBS) from University of Calcutta (1977), post graduate (MD) in pathology from AIIMS (1981), a Member of National Academy of Medical Sciences, India (1988).
Appointed in 1985 as Lecturer in Pathology for Clinical Pathology for the Laboratory service area of AIIMS hospital he became an integral part of the movement that transformed this service area into a full-fledged Department in 1988. He was officiating Head of the department from 01.06.94 to 26.03.96. He was also instrumental in establishing a 3-year residency program leading to MD degree in Laboratory Medicine that was approved by the Governing body of AIIMS in 1996.
Membership of Professional Bodies:
Life Member, Indian Association of Pathologists and Microbiologists, Life Member, Association of Clinical Biochemists of India, Life Member, Indian Science Congress Association, Life Member, Indian Medical Association, Life Member, International Academy of Pathology, Member, New York Academy of Sciences, USA, Fellow, International Society for Philosophical Enquiry, USA., Honorary Affiliate, The Center for Frontier Sciences, Temple University, USA., Member, Society for Scientific Exploration, USA., Member, Scientific and Medical Network, U.K.
Invited by Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Science as an observer from India in their Meeting on Science for Man and Man for Science in 1999.
In the panel of Expert of Important Committees:
Expert in various Committees in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India, Expert / Consultant in JDW National Reference Hospital, Thimpu, Bhutan, Expert in UPSC (Union Public Service Commission), Govt. of India, Selection Committee member of Indira Gandhi National Open University, Member of the Advisory Board of the Academic Committee of Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, New Delhi. Expert for Evaluation of Projects submitted to Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and Department of Biotechnology (DBT).
Research Interest:
At present Chief Supervisor of 3Ph.D. and 2 MD students, Co-Supervisor of 7 Ph.D. students and 2 MD students, Doctoral Committee member of 9 Ph.D. students.
Within Paradigm Research
1. Neurodegenerative disorder: Alzheimer’s disease and Vascular dementia;
Genetic polymorphism and Epistasis, ROS and Mitochondria
2. Neurodegenerative disorder: Parkinson’s disease; Mitochondrial DNA and
mitochondrial function
3. Molecular Psychiatry: Depression; genetic polymorphism and Epistasis
4. Psycho-neuro-immunology: Depression; Immune function and Apoptosis
5. Coagulation abnormalities in Traumatic Brain Injury, Acute liver failure and
Acute pancreatic failure
6. Antioxidant properties of the plant Ocimum sanctum (Tulsi)
Research Interest in emerging New Paradigm
Dr. A. K. Mukhopadhyay is a theoretical scientist and works with Ideas. His Research interest is in finding out the link between ‘local’ science and ‘non local’ science. The fields of interest are as follows:
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Integral approach in Developing a Science for Consciousness (browse through website on consciousness: http://www.akmukhopadhyayconsciousness.com |
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Supracortical Consciousness; The evolutionary first step taken by brain-bound consciousness to make sense of brain-independent consciousness. Mechanism of Supracortico-cortical and Cortico-supracortical communication. |
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Integral divisions of the
Indivisible Whole: Experience, Purpose, Time, Space, Matter. |
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How the Mechanics of Consciousness could be connected with the mechanics of matter and energy (quantum and classical mechanics) through the mechanics of Elemental plane and the Mechanics of Mother Nature. |
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Nested hierarchy in organization of Nature: The hierarchy of uncertainty. Pentaune Model of Nature-Consciousness. |
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Five components of a composite model of psyche; Consciousness, self, Private facet of self, Mind and Information. Psychic Skeleton and the Pathogenetic mechanism of psychosomatic disease. |
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The phase transition through `Death’; Near-death experience, transcendental death experience, transformational death experience and the experience of getting re-born in the same body. Correlation of experiential with neuro-phenomenology |
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Interrelationship between Brain and consciousness, Gene and Information, Information and Consciousness, memes and information, self and information. |
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Transition of Homo sapiens to Homo spiritualis. Its scientific basis. |
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The Science of Information. Dr. Mukhopadhyay holds a radical view on information which he considers is an ‘entity’ in phase beyond the Planck’s scale. Areas of special interest are: i. Relation of Information with space time and energy. The role of mind or mind-like structure and process in nature in the information-split phenomenon. ii. Information Mechanics iii. Information Geometry iv. Ontological category of Information v. The Point where the Mind, World and Infinity meet
Information-split phenomenon: Information-split as a process is involved in creation of space time in one hand, and opens up hitherto unexplored resource of information-based energy on the other hand. He proposes that information-based energy is pollution-free, inexpensive and exhaustible. It leads us to the dawn of a new energy revolution. Information-split process also explains the psycho-somatic connection. |
On these ideas, he has authored four Books (Link) that have been reviewed extensively in India and abroad (link).