Dr. Surajit Sinha           Associate Professor         Department of Organic Chemistry          Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science        Jadavpur, Kolkata 700 032, India        E-mail:  ocss5 [at] iacs.res.in        Phone: +91-33-24734971 ( Ext. 400 )        Fax: +91-33-24732805

Research interests (Organic synthesis and Chemical biology):

· Synthesis of biologically important natural products and its analogues using diversity oriented synthesis.

· Studies of small molecule modulation of Hedgehog signaling pathway in tissue culture and studies of Hedgehog dependent physiology using “zebrafish (Danio rerio)  as a model organism.

· Synthesis of artificial amino acids and nucleic acids for biological probes.

Education:

Int. PhD (M.S. and PhD) (2000): Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, (Under Professor S. Chandrasekaran, Department of Organic Chemistry).

 

Professional:

Postdoctoral Fellow (2000-2003): Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, (Advisor: Professor Christopher Switzer).

Postdoctoral Fellow (2003-2006 March): Chemical and Systems Biology, School of Medicine, Stanford University, (Advisor: Professor James K. Chen).

Assistant Professor (April 2006 – present): Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India.

Honors and Awards:

NASA Astrobiology Travel Grant Award (2002).

 

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