Sankar K. Guchhait
National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER
Biography
Sankar K. Guchhait is a Professor in the Department of Medicinal ÀË»¨Ö±²¥ at the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Mohali, India. He did his PhD research at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata. Following his postdoctoral research for four years at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the 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 synthesis of natural product-based and pharmaceutically important heterocyclic compounds. The 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 the recipient of several honors and awards, such as the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Bronze Medal in 2022 and the Indian Chemical Society's Professor D. Nasipuri Memorial Award in 2015.
RSC affiliations
Editorial board, RSC Medicinal ÀË»¨Ö±²¥