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Seetharama D. S. Jois

Seetharama D. S. Jois PhD

Physiology and Biophysics, Molecular Biology
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America

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Dr. Seetharama D. Jois is a professor of Medicinal Chemistry in the School of Pharmacy, the University of Louisiana at Monroe, USA. Before joining the University of Louisiana at Monroe in 2006, he worked as an Assistant Professor in the School of Pharmacy at the National University of Singapore for six years. Dr. Jois obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1994 from the Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Banglore, India, and a Master’s degree in Physics from the University of Mysore India.

After his Ph.D. degree, Dr. Jois obtained extensive training in Pharmaceutical Chemistry research at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS. During the past 11 years at ULM, he has established research in a unique area of drug design discovery, namely protein-protein interaction and drug design. Dr. Jois’ research interest is in the area of peptidomimetic-based drug design as a promising approach for developing therapeutic agents for autoimmune diseases, inflammatory diseases, and cancer. Dr. Jois has published more than 80 original papers and 70 abstracts, and he has edited a book, Drug Design and Discovery (Humana Press, 2011), and two special issue journals. Recently, he has applied for a provisional and a PCT patent application. In addition to research work, Dr. Jois is involved in teaching Medicinal Chemistry and protein biochemistry to professional Pharm.D students and computational and experimental methods of drug discovery to graduate students.