Dr. Sourish Ghosh pursued his Bachelor of Technology in Biotechnology from Haldia Institute of Technology, West Bengal, 2009. He did his Ph.D. at National Brain Research Centre under the mentorship of Dr. Anirban Basu, working with Chandipura Virus (from the Rhabdoviridae family) studying host-pathogen interaction in the brain. He received his Ph.D. in 2016 and joined National Institutes of Health, USA for his postdoctoral studies under the mentorship of Dr. Nihal Altan-Bonnet (2016-2022). Within the brief stint, he published in high-impact journals as Cell and Nature, studying viral transmission in enteric (Rotavirus, Norovirus) and respiratory viruses (SARS-Cov2). He joined CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, India as Senior Scientist in 2022 leading the Laboratory of Host-Pathogen Interactions. His laboratory primarily focuses on finding mechanisms for viral persistence. He has been a member of American Society for Virology since 2017 and received the prestigious Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship, 2021-22 from Department of Biotechnology, India.