Senior Professor, Department of Chemistry, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus
February 2013 - Current | Professor Department of Chemistry Birla Institute of Science & Technology, Pilani
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August 2010 - January 2013 | Associate Professor & Head Chemistry Group, Birla Institute of Science & Technology, Pilani
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November 2004 - July 2010 |
Assistant Professor & Head Chemistry Group, Birla Institute of Science & Technology, Pilani
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December 2002 - October 2004 |
Research Associate, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Maryland, College Park, USA
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December 2000-November 2002 |
Lecturer Department of Chemistry
Birla Institute of Science & Technology, Pilani, India
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May 1999 - September 2000 |
Post-doctoral Fellow University of Texas
Austin, USA |
August 1997 - April 1999 | Post-doctoral Fellow Sam Houston State University Huntsville, TX, USA |
April 1993-July 1997 | Ph.D., Organic Chemistry Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra Haryana
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June 1991-March 1993 | M. Phil.,Organic Chemistry, Grade A Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra
Haryana
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July 1989-May 1991 |
M. Sc., Organic Chemistry Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra
Haryana
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About Research: Our research interest focuses on design and synthesis of natural and synthetic bioactive nitrogen heterocycles as potent and selective anticancer agents. Recent research efforts aiming towards the use of organoiodines enabled us to discover several efficient protocols leading to easy access of drug-like bioactive heterocycles and natural products. Taking cue from indole-based natural products and synthetic drugs, identified various indolylazoles endowed with anticancer activities ranging from micro to nanomolar IC50 values. Efforts to develop potential photosensitizers resulted in the identification porphyrin macrocycle and boron dipyrromethenes with interesting absorption and emission properties. More recently efforts towards conjugate chemistry provided water soluble cationic porphyrins with remarkable (IC50 in nanomolar range) photocytotoxicity.
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