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University of Otago

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5.04/23/2026

Always patient, kind, and understanding.

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About Rakesh

Rakesh Banerjee holds a PhD from the Department of Pathology, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, which he completed in May 2024 after commencing in 2019 under the supervision of the Chatterjee Laboratory. Prior to this, he earned a Master of Science in Microbiology from Pondicherry University (2015-2017) and a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology from the University of Calcutta (2012-2015). His doctoral research centered on gene-specific DNA methylation editing to investigate gene regulation in melanoma cell lines, employing CRISPR-based tools to manipulate epigenetic patterns and elucidate their roles in cancer biology. Banerjee's work explores the epigenetic basis of cancer metastasis, locus-specific methylation editing in mammalian cells, and paradoxical gene activation mechanisms, contributing to potential developments in methylation-based biomarkers and combinatorial therapies.