Dr. Bagchi comes to Sanford Burnham Prebys from the University of Minnesota, where he has been since 2008, having earlier held positions as assistant professor of Cell Biology & Development (Genetic Mechanism of Cancer) and Co-Director of Mouse Genetics Laboratory at University of Minnesota. Dr. Bagchi brings his lab with him and an established research program in genetic mechanisms of cancer. He completed his PhD degree at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India and then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. He has been an American Cancer Society Research Scholar since 2014 and Masonic Scholar since 2010.