{"id":138,"date":"2018-01-30T15:19:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T15:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dev.dundee.ac.uk\/sapkota-lab\/?page_id=138"},"modified":"2020-12-08T13:50:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T13:50:25","slug":"gopal-sapkota-principal-investigator","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/sapkota-lab\/gopal-sapkota-principal-investigator\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Gopal Sapkota, MRC Investigator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-139 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/sapkota-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/01\/gopal-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/sapkota-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/01\/gopal-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/sapkota-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/01\/gopal-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/sapkota-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/01\/gopal-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/sapkota-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/01\/gopal.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"views-field views-field-body\">\n<div class=\"field-content\">\n<p>1986 &#8211; 1995\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Budhanilkantha School, Kathmandu, Nepal<\/p>\n<p>1995 &#8211; 1999\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Masters in Biochemistry, University of Bath, U.K.<\/p>\n<p>1999 &#8211; 2003\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 PhD, University of Dundee, Scotland, U.K.<\/p>\n<p>2003 &#8211; 2008 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Postdoc with Joan Massagu\u00e9, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA.<\/p>\n<p>2008 &#8211; 2014 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Programme Leader Track, MRC-PPU, University of Dundee, Scotland, U.K.<\/p>\n<p>2014-2020 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Programme Leader, MRC-PPU, University of Dundee, Scotland, U.K.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2020\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Professor of Disease Signalling, MRC-PPU, University of Dundee, Scotland, U.K.<\/p>\n<p>I undertook my school education from Nepal. I obtained a Masters degree in Biochemistry from the University of Bath in 1999. I was awarded a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Dundee in 2003. Then I joined Joan Massagu\u00e9\u2019s laboratory at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York to undertake postdoctoral research to study the TGF\u03b2 pathway regulation, for which I received the prestigious Damon Runyon Cancer Research Fellowship.<\/p>\n<p>I started my independent research group at the MRC PPU in Dundee since November 2008.<\/p>\n<h4>Connect with Gopal<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.co.uk\/citations?user=OD7UwHUAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">Google Scholar<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gpsapkota?lang=en\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-120\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/sapkota-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/01\/twitter.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"28\" height=\"28\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/gopal-sapkota-a72515b9\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-121\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/sapkota-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2018\/01\/linkedin.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"28\" height=\"28\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: 1986 &#8211; 1995\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Budhanilkantha School, Kathmandu, Nepal 1995 &#8211; 1999\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Masters in Biochemistry, University of Bath, U.K. 1999 &#8211; 2003\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 PhD, University of Dundee, Scotland, U.K. 2003 &#8211; 2008 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Postdoc with Joan Massagu\u00e9, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA. 2008 &#8211; 2014 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Programme Leader Track, MRC-PPU, University of Dundee, Scotland, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":329,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-138","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/sapkota-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/sapkota-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/sapkota-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/sapkota-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/329"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/sapkota-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/sapkota-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/sapkota-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/138\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/sapkota-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}