a) New Sponsored Projects

Principal Investigator	Name of Project	Sponsoring Agency	Amount Sanctioned (Rs. in Lakh)	Co-Investigator	Duration
Chandan Mukherjee	Synthesis and MRImage Investigation on MRI Contrast Agent-Entrapped Mesoporous SilicaNanoparticles	DBT	69.00	A. S. Achalkumar	3 Years
Debapratim Das	Peptide Based Semiconducting Materials for Organic-electronic devices	UKIERI	16.00	Prof. Oren A Scherman (University of Cambridge)	3 years
Uttam Manna	Multilayer of Porous Micro-Capsules to Develop Robust Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surface (SLIPS)	BNRS	25.00	None	3 years
Uttam Manna	‘Bulk’ Superhydrophobic Polymer materials for controlled and Tunable release of Antimicrobial peptides: A novel material for generating antimicrobial Material	DBT	42.14	Sunanda Chatterjee	3 years

b) Ongoing Sponsored Projects

Principal Investigator	Name of Project	Sponsoring Agency	Amount Sanctioned (Rs. in Lakh)	Co-Investigator	Duration
T. Punniyamurthy	Asymmetric Synthesis of Five Membered Heterocycles	CSIR	27.00	-	3 years
	Studies Toward C-H Activation for Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-Heteroatom Bond Formation	SERB	38.75	-	3 years
	Advanced Materials and Molecules	MHRD	400.00	-	5 years
Anil K Saikia	Diastereo- and Enantio-selective Synthesis of Oxygen, Nitrogen and Sulfur Heterocyclic Compounds	SERB (DST)	50.00	-	3 years
Debasis Manna	Cancer Immunotherapy: Mechanism-Based Design of Potent Inhibitor for Indoleamine 2,3-Dioxygenase-1	SERB	50.81	-	3 years
Debasis Manna	Development of Novel Inhibitors of AKT: An Unorthodox ApproachTargeting the Pleckstrin Homology Domain	DBT	107.90	Manas Santra	3 years
Chandan Mukherjee	Synthesis, Characterizationand Utilization of Radical-Containing Transition metalComplexes for MechanisticUnderstanding and Catalysis	SERB	48.40	NA	3 years
Chandan K Jana	Metal and Oxidant Free Stereoselective sp3C-H Arylation: Facile Access to Optically Active Disubstituted N-heterocycles and Their Application in Synthesis	SERB	30.90	None	3 years
Debapratim Das	Bioinspired Semi-conductive Peptides: Self-assembly, Nano-structures and Application in Organic-electronics	SERB	49.00	None	3 years
Debapratim Das	Peptide based soft-Nano Composites: Design, Synthesis and Potential Applications	CSIR	20.00	None	3 years
Subhas Chandra Pan	Asymmetric Organocatalytic Benzylic C-H Activation: Application to the Synthesis of Sugiol and its Derivatives with Biological Study	DST (SERB)	49.00	Biman B Mandal	3 years
Sunanda chatterjee	Design, Synthesis and Conformational Analysis of αγ Hybrid Peptides containing γ³/γ² Amino Acids with Proteinogenic Side Chains	DST	26.70	None	3years
Dipankar Srimani	Integration of Photoredox catalysis with Chiral Bronsted Acids: Towards enantioselective synthetic routes of versatile structural motifs.	DST-INSPIRE	35.00	NA	5 years
Dipankar Srimani	N-Heterocyclic Nitrenium Based Pincer Ligand and their Transition Metal Complexes: Exploring Potential Catalytic Application	DST, ECR	47.00	NA	3 years
Krishna P. Bhabak	SERB-EMR	SERB	53.00	NA	2017-2021
Krishna P. Bhabak	DST-INSPIRE	SERB-DST	35.00	NA	2013-2018
Animesh Das	Terminal Oxo and Imido Transition-Metal Complexes of Groups 11 (Cu, Ag, Au): Strategies for Sequential C-H Bond Activation and Functionalization, Carbon-Heteroatom (C–N and C–O) Bond-Forming Reactions and Group-transfer catalysis	DST-INSPIRE	35.00	NA	5 years
Animesh Das	Incorporation of Pendant Lewis Pairs into Secondary Coordination Sphere of the Metal ions: Cooperative Substrate Binding and Activation	DST, ECR	46.20	NA	3 years
Uttam Manna	Physically and Chemically Durable “Bulk” Superhydrophibic Material: An Avenue for Smart Drug Delivery	DST	31.56	None	3 years
Pavan K. Kancharla	Dissecting the mechanistic understanding of sialic acid glycosylations utilizing (R)-2-phenylcyanoethane as a novel multipurpose protecting group: Application towards thesynthesis of Legionaminic acid and its glycosides	DST (SERB)	50.00	None	3 years

c) Completed Sponsored Projects

Principal Investigator	Name of Project	Sponsoring Agency	Amount Sanctioned (Rs. in Lakh)	Co-Investigator	Duration
Sandip Paul	The Role of Aqueous Solutions of Trimethylamine-N-Oxide (TMAO) on the Pressure Induced Hydrophobic Interactions and the Pressure Induced Hydrogen Bond Properties and Dynamics	DST	21.38	None	3 years
	Counteraction of Osmolyte Trimethylamine-N-Oxide on Pressure Induced and Urea Induced Denaturation of Proteins BPTI and Rnase A: Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study	CSIR	10.62	None	3 years
	The mechanism of bioprotective effect of trehalose through hydrophobic and hydrogen bonding interactions on peptide and polypeptide: A molecular dynamics simulation study	BRNS	24.24	Debasis Manna	3 years
	Effect of osmolytes urea and trimethylamine-N-oxide on hydrophobicity and protein folding/unfolding under confinement	DST	20.70	None	3 years
Chandan Mukherjee	Transition metal-radical complexes as oxidation catalysts	CSIR	15.42	None	3 years
Chandan K Jana	Asymmetric Total Syntheses of Potential Anticancer Natural Products, Phomoarcherin A & B and Their Synthetic Analogs	CSIR	14.80	None	3 years
Debapratim Das	Understanding the Interaction between Cucurbituril and Amphiphilic Molecules in Aqueous Medium to Prepare Novel Self-assembled Systems	BRNS	20.00	None	3years
Subhas Chandra Pan	Aminocatalytic New Asymmetric Transformations	DST-MPI	72.00	None	4 years
Krishna Pada Bhabak	Start-Up Research Grant (Young Scientists)	SERB-DST	22.80	NA	3 years