Name: Dr. N. Shankaraiah, FTASc Professor shankar@niperhyd.ac.in shankarnbs@gmail.com 040-23074750 (Ex.2021) Google Scholar Citations

ADDRESS, ROOM NO

Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Room No. 31
NIPER Hyderabad
Hyderabad – 500037, TS, INDIA

QUALIFICATION: (REVERSE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER)

• Post-Doctoral Associate (2007–2008), Talca University, Chile
• Ph.D. (2002–2007), CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad, India
• M.Sc (1998–2000), Kakatiya University, India
• B.Sc (1993–1996), Kakatiya University, India

EXPERIENCE

• Professor (December 2024 - Till date ), NIPER-Hyderabad
• Associate Professor (July 2016 – December 2024), NIPER-Hyderabad
• Assistant Professor (August 2009 – July 2016), NIPER-Hyderabad
• Research Associate (March to August 2009), CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad
• Visiting Scientist (January to February 2008), UNICAMP, Brazil
• Lecturer (2000–2002), Shathavahana Degree College, Affiliated to Kakatiya University

COURSES HANDLING(PHD/M.S(PHARM))

• Spectral Analysis (Course Code: MC-511)
  Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy
  Mass spectrometry (MS)
  Infrared (IR) spectroscopy
  Ultra Violet (UV) and visible spectroscopy


• Logic in Organic Synthesis-II (Course Code: MC-620)
  Metal/ammonia reductions
  Reaction of electron-deficient intermediates
  Pericyclic (concerted) reactions and photochemistry
  Total synthesis of complex molecules


• Organometallic and Sustainable Chemistry in the Synthesis of Pharmaceuticals (Course Code: MC-730)
  Carbon-carbon coupling reactions
  Carbon-heteroatom coupling reactions
  Cross-coupling of unactivated arenes
  Metathesis
  Green chemistry
  Click chemistry
  Alkyne-azide click chemistry in the drug discovery research
  Multi-component & cascade reactions (MCR)


• Synthetic Strategies in the Total Synthesis of Complex Organic Molecules (Course Code: MC-720)
  Retrosynthetic analysis disconnections and reliability of reactions, synthons
  General synthetic reaction patterns and strategies
  Chemistry of protecting groups
  Applications of synthetic strategies in the total synthesis of selected organic molecules
  

PHD STUDENTS/MASTERS STUDENTS

• M.S (Pharm) Awarded: 150
• PhD Awarded: 21
• MS (Pharm) Ongoing: 10
• PhD Ongoing: 8

AWARDS / HONOURS

• Associate Editor, New Journal Of Chemistry
• Editorial Board Member, Bioorganic Chemistry
• Fellow of Telangana Akademi of Sciences, Year - 2021
• Associate Fellow of A.P. Akademi of Sciences, Year - 2014
• Best Research Scientist Award from NIPER Hyderabad, Year - 2016
• OPPI Young Scientist Award, Year - 2010 from Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India

RESEARCH AREAS/INTEREST

• Medicinal chemistry and lead optimization
• Design and synthesis of novel molecular entities (NMEs)
• Structure-based and rational drug design by computational studies
• Structure–activity relationship (SAR) studies
• Target based drug discovery (kinase, tubulin, epigenetic targets)
• Transition metal-catalysed C-H activation/ functionalization
• Development of alterative green and sustainable methodologies
• Mechanistic investigation of the catalysed reactions (online ESI-MS/NMR)
• Multicomponent/ cascade reactions

FELLOWSHIPS/GRANTS

• ICMR funded project “Investigator initiated research proposal- Small Grant” entitled- “Development of novel 2-amino pyrimidine based molecular hybrids as selective CDK-9 inhibitors”
• Young Scientist Research Grant, SERB, DST, 2015
• Research Project Award: “FONDECYT INCIATION PROJECT” (1 million US$), rated 3rd Rank, Chile
• SRF (2004–2007) in Chemical Sciences, CSIR, India
• JRF (2002–2004) in Chemical Sciences, CSIR, India

PUBLICATIONS / BOOK CHAPTERS / CV

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PATENTS

• 6

INVITED TALKS

• 80

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Head Of the Department
• Chair, Library

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