Nabarun Dasgupta    

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• A Man for the People
       
  
  Janine Latus, Carolina Alumni Review, September/October 2026, pp30-31. "Nabarun Dasgupta '13 (PhD) calls himself a streetdrug scientist, although the technical term is "pharmacoepidemiologist" – "10 syllables that mean I study the effect of molecules in bodies," he said. Others, though, call him a MacArthur genius, because he won recognition from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for his work as a senior scientist at UNC's Injury Prevention Research Center, where he analyzes street drugs and finds patterns that can protect people from dying of overdoses. He began training for it well before he knew it would be his life's work."
   
• "Synthetic Soup: Drug Supply and Overdose Trends (62 min)
  May 7, 2026; Nabarun Dasgupta discusses street drug science at the May 2026 FDA CERSI Lecture Series. This presentation shares laboratory findings on the rapidly changing composition of the US illicit drug supply, and trends in overdose mortality. (Scroll down on the page for the captioned video and a link to the slides.)
   
• 2025 MacArthur Fellow
       
  Nabarun Dasgupta is an epidemiologist and harm reduction advocate creating practical programs to mitigate harms from drug use, particularly opioid overdose deaths. 2 minute video about Nabarun Dasgupta
   
• Time100 Health 2026
  "Nabarun Dasgupta: Combatting the street drug crisis", by Charlotte Hu, Associate Editor, Time Magazine, Feb 11, 2026.
   
  
• "A Genius Among Us"
  By Sarah Nagem, The Assembly, November 6, 2025. Nabarun Dasgupta, a senior scientist at UNC-Chapel Hill and expert on fatal drug overdoses, was awarded a 2025 MacArthur Fellowship. The so-called "genius grant" comes with an $800,000 prize.
   
  
• Scientist on front lines of overdose crisis receives MacArthur 'genius' award
  Brian Mann, NPR, October 8, 2025
   
  
• Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE)
  Randomized Trial and Analytic Chemistry Innovations to Optimize Drug Alerts, Feb. 2022 - Feb. 2024
   
  
• "Behind the Numbers: Making Sense of Trends in the Drug Supply and Overdose Rates"
  Presenter: Dr. Nabarun Dasgupta, moderator: Mary Maddux-Gonzalez, MD, MPH. Dialogue4Health, Monday, May 5, 2025
   
  
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• "Drug Supply and Overdose Trends in the United States" (52 min)
  UH Health Services Research Center Distinguished Speaker Series with Dr. Nabarun Dasgupta (recorded webinar from Cleveland OH)
   
  
• The Science of Substance Use with Dr. Nabarun Dasgupta (33 min.)
  CSU Spur of the Moment - Episode 13, Colorado State University. In this episode of Spur of the Moment, Dr. Dasgupta discusses how he and his team study the ways in which street drugs are changing, share lifesaving information with the public, and inspire future research in the space.Includes transcript.
   
• Gillings Innovation Fellow
       
  Dr. Nabarun Dasgupta is the first Gillings Innovation Fellow as well as Senior Scientist at the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center and winner of the MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellowship. He holds a PhD in Epidemiology from the Gillings School.
   
• Opioid Data Lab
  The Street Drug Analysis Lab is a public service of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We provide analytical chemistry services and information for public health.