Partha P. Majumder is a National Science Chair, Science & Engineering Board, Government of India; a Distinguished Professor of the John C. Martin Centre for Liver Research & Innovations, Kolkata; and, an Emeritus Professor of the Indian Statistical Institute. He has made significant contributions to human-, statistical- and population genetics and genomics, that include development of methodologies, mapping genes for health-related traits and reconstructing ancestries and relationships among populations. He has provided deep insights on the genomics of inter-individual variability in immune response to vaccines. He has immensely contributed to capacity-building in human and statistical genetics in India. He has founded the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, India.
He is an elected Fellow of all the three science academies of India, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and the International Statistical Institute. He is has served as the President of the Indian Academy of Sciences and of the West Bengal Academy of Science & Technology.
He is a Member of the Executive Committees of the international Human Cell Atlas consortium and the International Common Disease Alliance. He serves as an expert on genomics for the World Health Organization.
He has received many awards and honours, including the G.N. Ramachandran Gold Medal (2021) of the Government of India; Barclay Memorial Medal (2020) of The Asiatic Society; Golden Jubilee Commemoration Medal (2018) of the Indian National Science Academy; TWAS Prize in Biology (2009) of The World Academy of Sciences, Trieste.