Alcohol and Its Biomarkers

Amitava Dasgupta received his Ph. D in chemistry from Stanford University and completed his fellowship training in Clinical Chemistry from the Department of Laboratory Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine at Seattle. He is board certified in both Toxicology and Clinical Chemistry by the American Board of Clinical Chemistry. Currently, he is a tenured Full Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center and Director of Clinical Laboratories at the University of Kansas Hospital. Prior to this appointment he was a tenured Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Texas McGovern medical School from February 1998 to April 2022. He has 252 papers to his credit. He is in the editorial board of four journals including Therapeutic Drug Monitoring, Clinica Chimica Acta, Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis.

Alcohol: Use, Abuse and Issues with Blood Alcohol Level
Genetic Aspect of Alcohol Metabolism and Drinking Behavior
Measurement of Alcohol Levels in Body Fluids and Transdermal Alcohol Sensors
Alcohol Biomarkers: An Overview
Liver Enzymes as Alcohol Biomarkers
Mean Corpuscular Volume, and Carbohydrate Deficient Transferrin as Alcohol Biomarker
Beta-hexosaminidase, Acetaldehyde-Protein Adducts and Dolichol as Alcohol Biomarkers
Direct Alcohol Biomarkers: Ethyl Glucuronide, Ethyl Sulfate, Fatty Acid Ethyl Esters and Phosphatidylethanol
Less commonly Used Alcohol Biomarkers and Proteomics in Alcohol Biomarker Discovery
Genetic Markers of Alcohol Use Disorder