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Somnath Dasgupta is affiliated with the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata in India. Their research focuses primarily on the field of Medicine, with significant contributions to areas including Biochemistry, Nephrology, Biological Psychiatry, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Health Information Management.

The scientist has investigated several topics intersecting biochemistry and clinical studies, with notable research on Sulfur Compounds in Biology, Tryptophan and Brain Disorders, Bipolar Disorder and Treatment, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders, Vitamin D Research Studies, and Vitamin C and Antioxidants Research.

Dasgupta has published studies in several journals, with a notable number of publications in:

  • Cureus
  • Asian Journal of Medical Sciences
  • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
  • GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS

The scientist's recent publications encompass a variety of medical and biochemical topics, including the role of serum hydrogen sulphide and its diagnostic potential in manic depressive psychosis, prevalence of hemoglobin variants affecting HbA1c measurement among indigenous populations, and investigations into serum vitamin D levels in coronary artery disease patients.

Some of the recent papers include:

  • Exploring the Role of Serum Hydrogen Sulphide (H2S) Levels in Manic Depressive Psychosis in Terms of Its Association, Diagnostic Ability, and Severity Prediction: Findings From a Tertiary Care Center in North Bengal (2024, Cureus)
  • Prevalence of hemoglobin variants and their effect on Hba1c measurement among the indigenous population of north Bengal attending a tertiary care hospital (2022, Asian Journal of Medical Sciences)
  • EFFECT OF SERUM VITAMIN D LEVEL IN PATIENTS WITH CORONARY ARTERY DISEASES IN A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL- MIDNAPORE MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL (2020, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH)
  • ABNORMALITY IN SERUM CALCIUM, PHOSPHATE AND VITAMIN-D LEVELS IN CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE PATIENTS: A CASE CONTROL STUDY IN THE EASTERN INDIAN POPULATION (2021, GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS)
  • Relationship Between Serum Hydrogen Sulfide and Ferritin Levels in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Retrospective Study at a Tertiary Hospital in Eastern India (2025, Cureus)

Dasgupta frequently collaborates with other researchers. Prominent co-authors include:

  • Utpal Kumar Biswas
  • Indrajit Nath
  • Sutapa S Dutta
  • Arup Banerjee
  • Nirmal Kumar Bera

In recognition of their scientific contributions, Somnath Dasgupta was named a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Timescales of crustal melting in the Higher Himalayan Crystallines (Sikkim, Eastern Himalaya) inferred from trace element-constrained monazite and zircon chronology

    Daniela Rubatto;Sumit Chakraborty;Somnath Dasgupta

  • Proterozoic East Gondwana: Supercontinent Assembly and Breakup

    M. Yoshida;B. F. Windley;S. Dasgupta

  • Tectonic evolution of the Eastern Ghats Belt, India

    Somnath Dasgupta;Sankar Bose;Kaushik Das

  • A refined garnet - biotite Fe−Mg exchange geothermometer and its application in amphibolites and granulites

    Somnath Dasgupta;Pulak Sengupta;Dipayan Guha;M. Fukuoka

  • India-Antarctica-Australia-Laurentia connection in the Paleoproterozoic–Mesoproterozoic revisited: Evidence from new zircon U-Pb and monazite chemical age data from the Eastern Ghats Belt, India

    Sankar Bose;Daniel J. Dunkley;Somnath Dasgupta;Kaushik Das

  • Grenvillian age high-pressure upper amphibolite-granulite metamorphism in the Aravalli-Delhi Mobile Belt, Northwestern India: New evidence from monazite chemical age and its implication

    S.K. Bhowmik;Heinz-J. Bernhardt;S. Dasgupta

  • Manganese Mineralization: Geochemistry And Mineralogy of Terrestrial And Marine Deposits

    Keith Nicholson;J. R. Hein;Bernhard Bühn;Somnath Dasgupta

  • Inverted metamorphic sequence in the Sikkim Himalayas: crystallization history, P–T gradient and implications

    S. Dasgupta;J. Ganguly;S. Neogi

  • Ultra-high Temperature Metamorphism of Metapelitic Granulites from Kondapalle, Eastern Ghats Belt: Implications for the Indo-Antarctic Correlation

    P. Sengupta;J. Sen;S. Dasgupta;M. Raith

  • Exhumation history of a section of the Sikkim Himalayas, India: records in the metamorphic mineral equilibria and compositional zoning of garnet

    Jibamitra Ganguly;Somnath Dasgupta;Weiji Cheng;Sudipta Neogi

  • Petro-tectonic Imprints in the Sapphirine Granulites from Anantagiri, Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt, India

    Pulak Sengupta;Somnath Dasgupta;P. K. Bhattacharya;M. Fukuoka

  • High P–T Polymetamorphism, Dehydration Melting, and Generation of Migmatites and Granites in the Higher Himalayan Crystalline Complex, Sikkim, India

    Sudipta Neogi;Somnath Dasgupta;Masato Fukuoka

  • Indo-Antarctic Correlation: a perspective from the Eastern Ghats Granulite Belt, India

    Somnath Dasgupta;Pulak Sengupta

  • Substrate control on formation and maturation of glauconites in the Middle Eocene Harudi Formation, western Kutch, India

    Santanu Banerjee;Shovan Lal Chattoraj;P.K. Saraswati;Somnath Dasgupta

  • High-temperature cooling histories of migmatites from the High Himalayan Crystallines in Sikkim, India: rapid cooling unrelated to exhumation?

    Nilanjana Sorcar;Ulrich Hoppe;Somnath Dasgupta;Sumit Chakraborty

  • Multiple tectonometamorphic imprints in the lower crust: first evidence of ca. 950 Ma (zircon U‐Pb SHRIMP) compressional reworking of UHT aluminous granulites from the Eastern Ghats Belt, India

    Kaushik Das;Sankar Bose;Subrata Karmakar;Daniel J. Dunkley

  • Petrology of Granulites from Anakapalle—Evidence for Proterozoic Decompression in the Eastern Ghats, India

    Somnath Dasgupta;Sanjoy Sanyal;Pulak Sengupta;M. Fukuoka

  • Tectonothermal evolution of the Banded Gneissic Complex in central Rajasthan, NW India: Present status and correlation

    Santanu Kumar Bhowmik;Somnath Dasgupta

  • Petrology of an inverted Barrovian sequence of metapelites in Sikkim Himalaya, India: Constraints on the tectonics of inversion

    Somnath Dasgupta;Sumit Chakraborty;Sudipta Neogi

  • Petrology of spinel granulites from Araku, Eastern Ghats, India, and a petrogenetic grid for sapphirine-free rocks in the system FMAS

    P. Sengupta;S. Karmakar;S. Dasgupta;M. Fukuoka

Frequent Co-Authors

Sumit Chakraborty
Sumit Chakraborty Ruhr University Bochum
Michael M. Raith
Michael M. Raith University of Bonn
M. Santosh
M. Santosh China University of Geosciences
Jibamitra Ganguly
Jibamitra Ganguly University of Arizona
Santanu Banerjee
Santanu Banerjee Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
James R. Hein
James R. Hein United States Geological Survey
Mudlappa Jayananda
Mudlappa Jayananda University of Hyderabad
Trevor Ireland
Trevor Ireland University of Queensland
K. Gopalan
K. Gopalan National Geophysical Research Institute
Makoto Arima
Makoto Arima Yokohama National University

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