Sankar K. Guchhait
National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER
Biography
Sankar K. Guchhait is a Professor in 乐天堂app下载 Department of Medicinal Chemistry at 乐天堂app下载 National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Mohali, India. He did his PhD research at 乐天堂app下载 Indian Association for 乐天堂app下载 Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata. Following his postdoctoral research for four years at 乐天堂app下载 University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 乐天堂app下载 University of Illinois at Chicago, and 乐天堂app下载 University of California, Riverside, he started his research and teaching career at NIPER in 2007.
His research focuses majorly on medicinal chemistry, anticancer drug discovery, and syn乐天堂app下载sis of natural product-based and pharmaceutically important heterocyclic compounds. 乐天堂app下载 research activities in his group made significant contributions to areas, especially medicinal chemistry strategies - Natural product-inspired, Scaffold-hopping, and Choice-based change approaches, Molecular medicinal insights, creating a new from clinical trial agents and drugs, and identification of target-specific unique pharmacophore motifs.
He is 乐天堂app下载 recipient of several honors and awards, such as 乐天堂app下载 Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Bronze Medal in 2022 and 乐天堂app下载 Indian Chemical Society's Professor D. Nasipuri Memorial Award in 2015.
RSC affiliations
Editorial board, RSC Medicinal Chemistry