Bhanu Pratap Jena
Bhanu Pratap Jena is an American cell biologist and the George E. Palade University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Physiology at the Wayne State University School of Medicine, who in the mid 90s discovered the porosome, demonstrated to be the universal secretory machinery at the plasma membrane in cells
Jena was born in a small town in Orissa, India, on November 1, 1955, to Manju and Prafulla Jena. He majored in Chemistry, Zoology and Botany from BJB College in Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India and studied Zoology at Utkal University, Orissa, . Following four years of lectureship at various colleges in Utkal University , in 1982 Jena received a teaching and research fellowship from Iowa State University, to pursue studies leading to a doctorate degree. In December 1988, he received his Ph.D. degree in Zoology , Following postdoctoral studies at Iowa State and Yale Universities , Jena joined Yale University as an Assistant Professor, and in 2000, joined as Professor in the Department of Physiology, at Wayne State University School of Medicine.
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