The Wayne State University School of Medicine has established the Jena Endowed Distinguished Lecture successful Cell Physiology successful grant of the pioneering and exemplary technological and world contributions of Bhanu Jena, Ph.D., the George E. Palade University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Physiology.
An editorial successful the planetary diary Pancreatology summarizes the interaction and contributions of Dr. Jena.
Established with an anonymous gift, the lecture volition enactment expenses associated with scholarly lectures connected topics associated with compartment physiology successful the Department of Physiology.
Bhanu Jena, Ph.D.
Dr. Jena’s passionateness for medicine started humbly successful a tiny municipality successful India, wherever helium learned from his grandfather, who practiced medicine. “The dedication of my begetter and gramps to subject and medicine and their work to humanity greatly influenced maine to take a vocation successful science,” helium said.
With his family’s encouragement, Dr. Jena majored successful chemistry, zoology and botany astatine Buxi Jagabandhu Bidyadhar College successful Odisha, India. He went connected to survey reproductive endocrinology astatine Utkal University successful Bhubaneswar, India, graduating astatine the apical of his people to person his master’s of subject grade with respective accolades, including the Utkal University Gold Medal.
Dr. Jena received his doctoral grade successful reproductive endocrinology from Iowa State University, and pursuing his postdoctoral grooming determination and astatine Yale University, helium joined Yale arsenic an adjunct professor. In that role, Dr. Jena discovered the porosome -- the cosmopolitan secretory machinery of the compartment plasma membrane. He has since determined its structure, creation and its functional workings.
Secretion is simply a cardinal process done which cells pass with their situation and speech accusation successful a multicellular discourse to scope homeostasis and prolong life. The find of the porosome created a paradigm displacement successful the knowing of the secretory process successful cells.
Cell secretion is liable for galore activities, including neurotransmission and the merchandise of hormones and digestive enzymes. Secretory defects are liable for a fig of debilitating conditions, including maturation defects, diabetes and neurological disorders. Dr. Jena’s discoveries person opened a gateway for the imaginable improvement of aboriginal treatments and therapies for specified disorders.
In summation to the find of the porosome, Dr. Jena has greatly contributed to the knowing of the molecular mechanics and regularisation of the h2o transmission oregon aquaporin, the biogenesis of biologic membranes, and their fusion, and the improvement of a caller imaging level of Differential Expansion of Microscopy.
In 2000, Dr. Jena’s accomplishments led him to the Wayne State University School of Medicine. He founded and directs the Institute of NanoBioScience, a beardown interdisciplinary programme focused successful nano sciences and nano medicine. The institute’s wide nonsubjective is to hole U.S.-trained scientists successful cutting-edge technologies who tin presume the adjacent procreation of enactment roles successful academics and industry.
Dr. Jena has won galore awards and honors, including chap of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; overseas subordinate of the Georgian National Academy of Science; overseas subordinate of the Korean Academy of Science & Technology; overseas subordinate of the Romanian National Academy of Medicine; the Swebelius Cancer Research Award; the Hallim Distinguished Award Lecture, shared with Nobel Laureate Ahmed Zewail; the Sir Aaron Klug Award; the American Society of Animal Science Basic Biological Science Award; the Ranbaxy Basic Research successful Medical Sciences Award; the George E. Palade Gold Medal; the European Union Academy of Science; the Academy of Scholars astatine Wayne State University; six honorary doctorates, including 1 from Babes-Bolyai University, Romania, shared with Nobel Laureates George Palade and Günter Blobel; the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine; and distinguished visiting professorships successful a fig of institutions globally.
“Throughout my vocation I person been fortunate to avail the accidental to larn from large teachers and scholars, and to enactment with fantastic students and colleagues,” Dr. Jena said. “I look guardant to seeing however this lecture bid volition marque a quality successful the sharing of accusation and probe successful respect to compartment physiology.”
To larn more, interaction the School of Medicine Office of Development and Alumni Affairs astatine 313-577-9374 oregon developmentoffice@med.wayne.edu.
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