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Parthasarathi Das

Parthasarathi Das MSc, PhD

Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India

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Dr. Parthasarathi Das received his M.Sc degree from Burdwan University, India. He then moved to the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India to pursue his doctoral studies where he received his Ph.D in 1999 under the supervision of Prof. Ganesh Pandey. He did postdoctoral studies at the RWTH-Aachen, Germany (Prof. H-J Gais), Tohoku University, Japan (Prof. Masahiro Hirama), and Harvard University, USA (Prof. Yoshito Kishi). In 2003 he moved to India to join Discovery Research of Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd./Aurigene Discovery Technologies Ltd. and worked in a medicinal chemistry group having research focus on various therapeutic areas e.g., oncology, metabolic disorder, and antibacterial.

In 2012 he moved to academia and joined CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Jammu. In December 2017 he moved to the Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad and joined as faculty in the Department of Applied Chemistry. His current research interests include medicinal chemistry, the development of new synthetic tools, and the synthesis of biologically active natural products. He has been selected for the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Bronze Medal, 2018 for his contribution to research in chemistry.