About Me

Academic Details

2007-2008

Marie Curie Fellow, in the group of Prof. Herbert Waldmann and Prof. Hans-Dieter Arndt, Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany.


2002-2006

Doctoral studies in the group of Prof. Manfred Mutter, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.


2000-2001

DES (Post-graduate Diploma), University of Lausanne, Switzerland.


1995-1997

M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, India.


1992-1995

B.Sc. with honors in Chemistry, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, India.


Professional Experience

Aug 2019-Present

Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Guwahati.


Nov 2018-Jan 2019

Visiting Research Fellow, School of Medicine, Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine (LICAMM), Leeds University, UK.


Feb 2015-Aug 2019

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Guwahati.


Apr 2008- Feb 2015

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Guwahati.


Awards, Honours and Recognition

13th-15th February , 2020

Ms. Sujan Kalita received the Best Poster Award, in International Conference on Emerging Trends in Chemical Science (ETCS -2020). organized by the Department of Chemistry, Gauhati University, Gopinath Bordoloi Nagar, Guwahati, Assam, India


1st November 2018 to 31st January 2019

Overseas Associateship by DBT, Govt. of India, which allowed me to pursue part of my research in the Leeds University, UK, on type II diabetes management


30th June to 1st july, 2017

Mr. Srinivasa Rao Manne received the Best Poster Award, in International Conference on Sophisticated Instruments in Modern Research (ICSIMR-2017), organized by the Central Instruments Facility, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati


27th May 2017

RASTRIYA GOURAV AWARD - 2017 conferred by the India International Friendship Society, received from Sri Bhishma Narain Singh, the Former Governor of Tamilnadu and Assam , in New Delhi


26th August, 2016

THE CAMBRIDGE CERTIFICATE for Outstanding Scientific Achievements, by IBC


2014

Dr. Krishna Chaitanya Nadimpally received the Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Awards / Appreciations & got selected for CSIR-Nehru postdoctoral fellowship


Oct 27, 2015

Miss Sujan kalita received Rs. 10,000/- for being the finalist of the Samsung Innovation Award 2015 at IIT Guwahati.


21st Nov - 2015

Mr. Ashim Paul received The Talent Search Contest on Innovative Research Ideas Leading to Enterpreneural Venture in Biotechnology and Allied Areas


5th July, 2015

Outstanding Faculty Award (VIFFA-2015) conferred by the Venus International Foundation


4th Nov, 2015

Industrial Green Chemistry World Award (IGCW - 2015) conferred by Dr. David Constable, Director, American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceutical Round Table and Dr. John Warner, who is regarded as the Father of Green Chemistry, from the Industrial Green Chemistry Foundation


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Served as the invited expert for evaluating several multinational and national research project proposals and their progress


2013

Biography published in the 30th Pearl Anniversary Edition of Marquis Who’s Who in the World 2013. (VIP no. 36509520)


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Invited reviewer for several articles in peer reviewed journals, e.g. PLOS ONE, Int J Pept Res Ther, RSC Adv, Org Bio Mol Chem, Org Lett, etc.


2010

Selected for participation in the Nature Chemical Biology Reader Panel


2008-2009

DAE-Young Scientist Research Award 2008-2009, BRNS, Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India


2007

Marie-Curie fellowship for postdoctoral research, European commission, research and training network FP6


2002

Fellowship for Ph.D. studies, Swiss National Science Foundation


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Qualified GATE


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Received merit scholarship from class VIII to M.Sc


Affiliation

Member (Membership no. 516090)

Royal Society of Chemistry, London


"Life Member"

Indian Peptide Society


Member (ID #: 3290)

American Peptide Society


Member

European Peptide Society


Life member

Chemical Research Society of India


Courses Taught

2019

MC-511 Spectroscopic analysis (sharing) NIPER Guwahati


2015, 2017, 2019

CH 427 Medicinal Chemistry. B. Tech. (CST) VII


2018-2019

CH-617 Supramolecules: Concept and Application. (M.Sc.)


2011-2015, 2020

CH-428 Drug Design & Development, B. Tech. (CST) VIII


Jan-May, 2012

CH-223 Organic chemistry lab, B. Tech. (CST) III


July-Dec, 2010

CH-623 Chemistry of Biological Macromolecules, Ph. D. elective


Jan-May, 2009, 2010 & 2013

CH-002 Pre-B.Tech


Jan-May, 2009

CH-425 Organic chemistry Lab, M.Sc. II & B. Tech. (CST) VIII


July-Dec, 2008-2011

CH-521 Modern techniques in Chemical Biology, M.Sc. III


July-Dec, 2008-11

CH-110 Organic chemistry lab, B. Tech. (CST) I


July-Dec, 2008

CH-521 Modern techniques in Chemical Biology, B Tech (CST) VII


Conferences/Seminars

28th-29th August, 2019

Served as a resource person in the refresher course conducted by the North Bengal University, Siliguri


28th-29th August, 2019

Served as a resource person in the refresher course conducted by the North Bengal University, Siliguri


29th and 30th March, 2018

Invited lecture in the Conference on the Supramolecular Chemistry in Biology and Functional Materials, in IISER, Kolkata


5th-6th April 2018

Plenary Lecture in the National Seminar on Frontiers in Chemical Sciences (NSFCS-2018), Triveni Devi Bhalotia College, (TDB College), Raniganj, West Bengal


8th-10th December 2016

Frontier in Chemical Sciences (FICS-2016), IIT Guwahati


8th-10th Oct, 2015

Invited Lecture in 402nd OMICS International Conference, Pharmaceutical Summit and Expo, New Delhi, India


24th-25th September, 2015

5th Indian Peptide Symposium, (IPS 5), JNCASR, Bangalore


14th-18th December, 2014

13th Eurasia Conference on Chemical Sciences (EuAsC2S-13), IISc, Bangalore. (Invited lecture in Chemistry of Living Systems Section, CLS-IL-4)


4th-6th December, 2014

Frontier in Chemical Sciences (FICS-2014), IIT Guwahati, India, (Invited lecture and session chair)


21st-22nd February, 2013

4th Indian Peptide Symposium, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata


26-28th November , 2012

Young Scientist Research Awardee’s Meet, Bhaba Atomic Research Center, Mumbai


18th May, 2009

Seminar on Computer-Aided Drug Design, Nanotechnology Centre, IIT Guwahati


8th July 2008

Delegation of the European commission to India, Grand Oberoi Hotel, Kolkata


11th-13th May 2007

Endocyte Plenary kick-off Meeting, Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences, Split, Croatia


October 2004

Fall Meeting of the Swiss Chemical Society, Zurich, Switzerland


September 2004

3rd International and 28th European Peptide Symposium, Prague, Czech Republic