ARINJAY BANERJEE, PhD

ARINJAY BANERJEE, PhD (he/him)
ARINJAY BANERJEE, PhD (he/him), Principal Scientist  Laboratory of Zoonotic Viruses and Comparative Immunology (LZCI) Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, Canada

Arinjay Banerjee New Member Mini-bio:

Research within Dr. Banerjee’s laboratory focuses on three main themes that are inspired by the One Health ideology, (1) virus-host interactions in wildlife reservoir species, such as bats, (2) virus-host interactions in spillover species, such as humans, and (3) viral vaccine development. Dr. Banerjee’s laboratory is a member of Canada’s Coronavirus Variants Rapid Response Network (CoVaRR-Net), and as part of this network, his laboratory investigates emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants. Research within Dr. Banerjee’s laboratory is funded by NIAID/NIH, CIHR, NSERC, SHRF and CoVaRR-Net.

Group photo in BSL3 - Left to right: Arinjay Banerjee (PI), Kaushal Baid (postdoctoral fellow), Akarin Asavajaru (Research technician), and Victoria Gonzalez (PhD student).
Group photo in BSL3 - Left to right: Arinjay Banerjee (PI), Kaushal Baid (postdoctoral fellow), Akarin Asavajaru (Research technician), and Victoria Gonzalez (PhD student).

ARINJAY BANERJEE, PhD (he/him)
Principal Scientist 
Laboratory of Zoonotic Viruses and Comparative Immunology (LZCI)
Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO)
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, Canada

Dr. Arinjay Banerjee (PhD) is a virologist and the Principal Investigator of the Laboratory of Zoonotic Viruses and Comparative Immunology at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Dr. Banerjee is the co-lead for One Health at the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Banerjee is cross appointed as faculty at the Universities of Toronto, Waterloo, and British Columbia.

Dr. Banerjee completed his Master of Science degree in virology from the National Institute of Virology in India where his master’s thesis was awarded the university gold medal. Next, Dr. Banerjee completed his PhD from the University of Saskatchewan where his doctoral thesis on coronavirus-host interactions was awarded Canada’s Governor General’s Gold medal. Dr. Banerjee’s postdoctoral research at McMaster University was awarded the Gerard Wright postdoctoral award in Infection Research and the postdoctoral fellow impact award. More recently, Dr. Banerjee was selected as CBC Saskatchewan’s Top 40 under 40.

Co-Lead, One Health Signature Area, University of Saskatchewan, SK, Canada

Adjunct ProfessorDepartment of Veterinary Microbiology, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, SK, Canada

Adjunct Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, BC, Canada

Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, ON, Canada

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada

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