astronomy

Jayanta Debnath

Jayanta Debnath is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Jayanta Debnath rather than just read about it. In short: Jayanta Debnath (born 1971) is an American physician who specializes in pathology. His research focuses on autophagy as it relates to cancer.

Key takeaways

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Connect Jayanta Debnath to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Jayanta Debnath from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Jayanta Debnath (born 1971) is an American physician who specializes in pathology. His research focuses on autophagy as it relates to cancer. He is the chair of the University of California, San Francisco department of pathology and a co-editor of the Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease.

Early life and education Jayanta Debnath was born in 1971 in North Carolina where his father Lokenath Debnath was a professor of mathematics at East Carolina University. Debnath attended Georgia Institute of Technology, graduating in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in chemistry. He then attended Harvard Medical School for his Doctor of Medicine, graduating in 1998. From 1998 to 2003 he completed his internship, medical residency, and fellowship in pathology at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Career From 2003 to 2005 he was an instructor of cell biology at Harvard Medical School. In 2005, he joined the faculty of University of California, San Francisco as an assistant professor. He was promoted to associate professor in 2011 and full professor in 2016. In 2018, he was appointed the chair of UCSF's pathology department, succeeding Abul K. Abbas. In 2021 he was one of the six researchers at UCSF to jointly win the Endeavor Award from the Mark Foundation for Cancer Research, which is a US$3 million research grant to study metastasis of cancer. Debnath's research focuses on the cellular process of autophagy and its relevance to cancer, specifically breast cancer. He formerly served as the chair of the integration panel for the United States Department of Defense's Breast Cancer Research Program. As of 2021, he is a co-editor of the Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease. He has also served as an associate editor of the journal Autophagy. Dr. Debnath continues his work at UCSF by serving as both a professor and chair in the Department of Pathology, in which is also affiliated with the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, Breast Oncology Program, and the Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights. Debnath also runs the Debnath Lab, focusing studies on the role and regulation of autophagy in epithelial homeostasis as well as cancer pathogenesis.

Awards and honors In 2021 he was the recipient of the American Society for Investigative Pathology's Outstanding Investigator Award.

Personal life

Debnath is Indian-American and speaks Bengali as well as English.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Jayanta Debnath

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Jayanta Debnath claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Jayanta Debnath before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Jayanta Debnath ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Jayanta Debnath

In research: Jayanta Debnath appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Jayanta Debnath in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Jayanta Debnath is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1971 births, American medical doctors of Indian descent, American pathologists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Jayanta Debnath outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Jayanta Debnath in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
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Frequently asked questions

What is Jayanta Debnath in simple terms?

Jayanta Debnath (born 1971) is an American physician who specializes in pathology. His research focuses on autophagy as it relates to cancer.

Why does Jayanta Debnath matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Jayanta Debnath?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Jayanta Debnath.