Profile of Dr. Pinaki Talukdar

Employments:

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune. (July, 2009 - Present)
Designation: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry.

Institute of Life Sciences, Hyderabad. (April, 2006 - June, 2009)
Designation: Senior Research Scientist – Medicinal Chemistry, Discovery Research

Project 1: Modulator Design for SIRT1 as a Target for Diabetes and Obesity
In Collaboration between ILS and Wistar Institute, USA

Project 2: Conformationally Restricted Nucleocyclitols: A Study into Their Conformational Preferences and Supramolecular Architecture in the Solid State.
In Collaboration with Prof. Goverdhan Mehta, IISc., Bangalore.

Project 3: Inhibitor Design for Heat Shock Protein 90 as Target for Malaria.
In Collaboration with Prof. Utpal Tatu, IISc., Bangalore.

Project 4: Design of Diverse Natural and Non-natural Scaffolds and Their Biological Evaluation

AMRI Global, Hyderabad (Oct, 2005 - March, 2006)
Designation: Senior Research Scientist

Projects: I have worked on targeted synthesis of variety of drug candidates for several pharmaceutical companies. These projects involved diverse synthetic chemistry, process development, and efficient productivity within provided deadlines. However, this research can not be discussed here because of intellectual property protection.

Education:

Postdoctorate: Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (2005-2006)
Project Title: Carbohydrate Macrocycle Based Synthetic Ion Channels with Controllable Anion Selectivity.
Supervisor: Dr. Mary S. Gin

Ph. D.: Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Geneva, Switzerland (2001 - 2005)
Thesis Title: Ligand-Gated Synthetic Ion Channels with Rigid-Rod pi-Stack Architecture.
Supervisor: Professor Stefan Matile.

M. S.: Chemical Sciences Division, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. CGPA: 6.6/8.0 (in 2001)
Project Title: Synthesis of Carbasugars and Other Structurally Related Motifs.
Supervisor: Professor Goverdhan Mehta.

B. Sc.: Chemistry Honors, Presidency College, University of Calcutta. 1st Class (in 1998)