Dr. Kabir Hassan Biswas

Associate Professor

Email

kbiswas@hbku.edu.qa

Phone

+974-44541811

Office location

A-149

Dr. Kabir Hassan Biswas

Associate Professor

Educational Qualifications

PhD in Biological Sciences

MS in Biological Sciences

Entity

College of Health and Life Sciences

Division

Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Biography

Dr. Kabir Hassan Biswas joined the College of Health and Life Sciences at Hamad Bin Khalifa University as an Assistant Professor in 2019 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2025. He earned his Master's and PhD through the prestigious Integrated PhD program at the Indian Institute of Science in 2007 and 2011, respectively. He then conducted postdoctoral research at the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University between 2011 and 2019.

Dr. Biswas’s laboratory takes an interdisciplinary approach, integrating computational methods such as AI/deep learning-based protein design, protein structure-function analysis and drug discovery and experimental techniques such as bioluminescence-based biosensors and biointerfaces with the aim to advance fundamental understanding and developing potential treatment for cancer metastasis, cardiovascular diseases, and infectious diseases. His group is also developing point-of-care tests for health and disease monitoring.

Dr. Biswas has received several competitive research grants, including Academic Research Grant, HBKU Thematic Research Grant, and Industrial Innovation Fund, and has published in high-impact journals such as Science, PNAS, The New England Journal of Medicine, and Nature Communications. He has delivered invited talks at major international conferences and received multiple awards, including the Yamaguchi Medal and the Mrs. C. V. Hanumantha Rao Medal.

PhD in Biological Sciences

Indian Institute of Science, India

2011

MS in Biological Sciences

Indian Institute of Science, India

2007

BSc in Biochemistry

Aligarh Muslim University, India

2004

  • Therapeutic protein design and drug discovery using AI/deep learning-based and other computational methods
  • Expanding capabilities of the BRET technology to engineer biosensors for biomolecule and protease activity detection
  • Computational and experimental approaches for protein structure-function analysis including the effect of disease-causing mutations
  • Supported lipid bilayer-based interface for reconstituting juxtacrine receptor-ligand signaling

Associate Professor

College of Health & Life Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University

2025 - Present

Assistant Professor

College of Health and Life Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University

2019 - 2025

Senior Research Fellow

NTU Institute of Health Technologies (HealthTech), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

2018 - 2019

Senior Research Fellow

School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

2017 – 2018

Senior Research Fellow

Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore

2016 – 2017

Research Fellow

Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore

2011 – 2016

Geethakumari, A. M., Sultana, A., Fatima, A., Uddin, S. M. N., Abdulhakim, S., Mohamed, A., Rahman, S., Al-Buainain, K., Yassine, H. M., Khatib, H. A. A., & Biswas, K. H. (2025). A BRET-based Mpro biosensor containing a nanobody and tandem cleavage sites shows an increased cleavage rate. Sensors and Actuators Reports, 9, 100315.

Ahmed, W. S., Geethakumari, A. M., Sultana, A., Tiwari, A., Altamash, T., Arshad, N., Visweswariah, S. S., & Biswas, K. H. (2025). Coevolving residues distant from the ligand binding site are involved in GAF domain function. Communications Chemistry, 8(1), 107.

Fatima, A., Geethakumari, A. M., Ahmed, W. S., & Biswas, K. H. (2024). A potential allosteric inhibitor of SARS-CoV-2 main protease (Mpro) identified through metastable state analysis. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 11, 1451280.

Arshad, N., Laurent-Rolle, M., Ahmed, W. S., Hsu, J. C., Mitchell, S. M., Pawlak, J., Sengupta, D., Biswas, K. H., & Cresswell, P. (2023). SARS-CoV-2 accessory proteins ORF7a and ORF3a use distinct mechanisms to down-regulate MHC-I surface expression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(1), e2208525120.

Huang, W. Y. C., Alvarez, S., Kondo, Y., Lee, Y. K., Chung, J. K., Lam, H. Y. M., Biswas, K. H., Kuriyan, J., & Groves, J. T. (2019). A molecular assembly phase transition and kinetic proofreading modulate Ras activation by SOS. Science, 363(6431), 1098–1103.

Complete Publication Listing(s): Google Scholar

  • Stanford/Elsevier's Top 2% Scientist Rankings (2025)
  • Outstanding Faculty in Biosensors, Venus International Foundation, Chennai, India (2024)
  • Yamaguchi Medal, Asian-Pacific Association for Biomechanics, Nagoya University, Japan (2017)
  • Mrs. C V Hanumantha Rao Medal, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (2012)
  • Senior Research Fellowship, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India (GoI) (2009)