To study proliferation, immunomodulatory properties and migration of human mesenchenchymal stem cells under different physiological stress-like conditions.

1. Ph.D (virology), national Institute of Immunology (JNU), 2001
2. M.Sc (Biotechnology), School of Biotechnology (JNU), 1995
3. B.Sc (Hons) (Biochemistry), Daulat Ram College (Delhi University), 1993

1. Associate Professor, IISER Kolkata (current)
2. Sr Principal Scientist, Stempeutics Research Pvt Ltd (2008 - 2011)
3. Post doctoral fellow, NIDDK, NIH (2002 - 2007)

1. Ph.D (virology), national Institute of Immunology (JNU), 2001

1. Dutta Gupta, Srishti and Ta, Malancha. 2024."ADAMTS13 regulates angiogenic markers via Ephrin/Eph signaling in human mesenchymal stem cells under serum-deprivation stress." Sci Rep ., 14, 560
2. Goyal, Umesh and Ta, Malancha. 2020."A novel role of vitronectin in promoting survival of mesenchymal stem cells under serum deprivation stress." Stem Cell Res Ther . , 11, 181

Sen, Ankita and Ta, Malancha. 2020."Altered Adhesion and Migration of Human Mesenchymal Stromal Cells under Febrile Temperature Stress Involves NF-?? Pathway.." Sci Rep, 10, 4473

Goyal, Umesh and Ta, Malancha. 2018."p53-NF-?B Crosstalk in Febrile Temperature-Treated Human Umbilical Cord-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells.." Stem Cells Dev., 00, 00

Arora, Sneha; Saha, Shekhar; Roy, Saheli and Ta, Malancha. 2015."Role of Nonmuscle Myosin II in Migration of Wharton's Jelly-derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells." Stem Cells Dev, 24, 2065-77

All Publications: 

1. Dutta Gupta, Srishti and Ta, Malancha. 2024."ADAMTS13 regulates angiogenic markers via Ephrin/Eph signaling in human mesenchymal stem cells under serum-deprivation stress." Sci Rep ., 14, 560
2. Dutta Gupta, Srishti; Sen, Ankita; Priyadarshi, Priyanshu and Ta, Malancha. 2023."Enzyme-free isolation of mesenchymal stem cells from decidua basalis of the human placenta." STAR Protocols, 4, 102498
3. Goyal, Umesh; Khader, Ashiq; Dutta Gupta, Srishti and Ta, Malancha. 2023."Vitronectin Mediates Survival of Human WJ-MSCs Under Inflammatory Temperature Stress Via Cell Cycle Arrest." StemJournal, vol. 5, 1-17
4. Ta, Malancha and Sen, Ankita. 2023."Vitronectin acts as a key regulator of adhesion and migration in human umbilical cord-derived MSCs under different stress conditions." Exp Cell Res., 423, 113467
5. Goyal, Umesh and Ta, Malancha. 2020."A novel role of vitronectin in promoting survival of mesenchymal stem cells under serum deprivation stress." Stem Cell Res Ther . , 11, 181
6. Sen, Ankita and Ta, Malancha. 2020."Altered Adhesion and Migration of Human Mesenchymal Stromal Cells under Febrile Temperature Stress Involves NF-?? Pathway.." Sci Rep, 10, 4473
7. Goyal, Umesh and Ta, Malancha. 2018."p53-NF-?B Crosstalk in Febrile Temperature-Treated Human Umbilical Cord-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells.." Stem Cells Dev., 00, 00
8. Ta, Malancha. 2018."Isolation and Establishment of Mesenchymal Stem Cells from Wharton’s Jelly of Human Umbilical Cord.." Bio-protocol, 8, e2735
9. Himal, Iris; Goyal, Umesh and Ta, Malancha. 2017."Evaluating Wharton's Jelly-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cell's Survival, Migration, and Expression of Wound Repair Markers under Conditions of Ischemia-Like Stress.." Stem Cells Int., 0, 0
10. Arora, Sneha; Saha, Shekhar; Roy, Saheli and Ta, Malancha. 2015."Role of Nonmuscle Myosin II in Migration of Wharton's Jelly-derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells." Stem Cells Dev, 24, 2065-77
11. Swamynathan, Priyanka; Venugopal, Parvathy; Kannan, Suresh; Thej, Charan; Kolkundar, Uday Kumar; Bhagwat, Swaroop; Ta, Malancha; Majumdar, Anish Sen and Balasubramanian, Sudha. 2014."Are serum-free and xeno-free culture conditions ideal for large scale clinical grade expansion of Wharton's jelly derived mesenchymal stem cells? A comparative study.." Stem Cell Res Ther, 5, 88
12. Roy, Saheli; Arora, Sneha; Kumari, Poonam and Ta, Malancha. 2014."A simple and serum-free protocol for cryopreservation of human umbilical cord as source of Wharton's jelly mesenchymal stem cells.." Cryobiology, 68, 467-472
13. Sharma, Tulika; Kumari, Poonam; Pincha, Neha; Mutukula, Naresh; Saha, Shekhar; Jana, Siddhartha Sankar and Ta, Malancha. 2014."Inhibition of non-muscle myosin II leads to G0/G1 arrest of Wharton's jelly-derived mesenchymal stromal cells.." Cytotherapy, 16, 640-652
14. Balasubramanian, Sudha; Venugopal, Parvathy; Sundarraj, Swathi; Zakaria, Zubaida; Majumdar, Anish Sen and Ta, Malancha. 2012."Comparison of chemokine and receptor gene expression between Wharton's jelly and bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stromal cells." Cytotherapy, 14, 26-33

1. Goyal, Umesh; Sen, Ankita and Ta, Malancha. 2019." Isolation and Molecular Characterization of Progenitor Cells from Human Umbilical Cord.", "Progenitor Cells. Methods in Molecular Biology". Humana, New York, NY, ISBN: 9781493996308