Lab News & Happenings !

2025

• Dr. Ananya Jana has joined the lab as Post-Doc. Fellow. Welcome Dr. Ananya.
• Congratulations to Dr. Haritha and Shalini for their recent publication in Drug Discover Today.
• Deepika has presented her work at XX-JNOST 2025 conference held on 30 October – 01 November’2025 at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-ISM) Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India.
• Heartful Congratulations to Dr. Faraz for his work got published in Synlett.
• Gaurav and Deepika have presented their work at Global Scientific Conference held on 08-11 October’2025 at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Maharashtra, India.
• Many Congratulations to Gaurav for winning the Best Poster Award at Ph.D. Research Showcase by the Director of IIT Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India.
• Dr. Sangita D. Shinde has joined the lab as Research Associate II in Aug’25. Welcome Sangita.
• Congratulations to Pranav for his work got published in Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry.
• Many Congratulations to Dr. Haritha and Deepika for their publication in ACS Infectious Diseases.
• Congratulations to Shalini for her work got published in Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry.
• Many Congratulations to Deepika for winning CRSI Best Poster award at 35th CRSI-NSC Symposium.
• Gaurav, Deepika and Shalini have presented their work at 35th CRSI-NSC Symposium, held on 03-05 July’2025 at Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India.
• Pranav gave his Presynopsis on  June 30th, 2025.
• Many Congratulations to Dr. Haritha for winning the Director’s Gold for Outstanding Research 2025.
• Many Congratulations to Gaurav for winning the Best Poster Award at SIDD 2025 conference.
• Dr. Faraz, Gaurav, Deepika and Shalini have presented their work at SIDD 2025 conference, held on 24-26 March’2025 at Indrashil University, Gujarat, India.
• Delighted to share that Dr. Haritha has joined as Post-Doc. Fellow at Uppsala University, Swedan.

2024

• Haritha has successfully defended her thesis on December 18th, 2024. Congratulations Dr. Haritha.
• Delna has successfully defended her thesis on November 28th, 2024. Congratulations Dr. Delna.
• Haritha, Delna, Pranav, Gaurav, and Deepika have presented their work at the 32nd CRSI-NSC Symposium, held on 01 – 04 February’2024, at BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, Rajasthan, India.
• Many congratulations to Dr. Gulshan Kumar on joining as an Assistant Professor at Amity University, Gurgaon, Haryana, India. Wishing you all the best for your future endeavors.
• Congratulations to Delna, Bhanu, and the Team for their paper in Journal of Molecular Structure!
• Delna gave her Presynopsis on July 15th, 2024. 
• Hearty congratulations to Haritha for her recent work published on H. Pylori IMPDH in ACS Infectious Disease!
• Dr. Faraz Ghous has joined the lab as a Post-Doc Fellow in May’24. Welcome Dr. Faraz.
• We have successfully completed Nidhi Prayas and BIG-BIRAC grant this year. Congratulations to the whole lab!
• Started a new startup – “Procyl Therapeutics“
• Dr. Sivapriya’s recent interview was aired by BBC on 3rd June’24. Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct5rmn 
• Haritha gave her Presynopsis on June 10th, 2024.

2023

• Happy to share the full grant of a patent on RAS inhibitors!
• Got Nidhi Prayas Grant for Startup the PBG Kinomics – Congratulations Gaurav, Bhanu Priya, and team.
• Delighted to share the patent grant of the J54 molecule. Congratulations, Javeena and team!
• Congratulations Althaf, Pranav, and Dimple, for their paper on cocrystals of Gefitinib.
• A recent publication from our lab as TLK inhibitors. Congratulations Delna.
• Second Paper showing the great potency of SPK98 as an ATR kinase inhibitor. Congo Bhanu!
• Hearty congratulations to Bhanu and Srimadhavi for their recent review article in Drug Discovery Today.

2022

• Congrats to Javeena for her paper in JMC, 2022.
• Congrats to Dr. Sivapriya for receiving the Dr. R Gopalan Endowment Prize 2022’ from Madras Christian College, Chennai.
• Congrats to Phanindra for clearing CSIR-NET JRF, 2022.
• Helna joined the lab as a project assistant.
• Congrats to Shweta on her Ph.D. admission at the University at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo), USA.
• Congrats to Deepika for getting a Director’s Fellowship at IIT Gandhinagar in 2022.
• Gulshan Kumar joined as a post-doc Fellow in April 2022.
• Congrats to Soumita for the post-doc position in Israel.
• Deepika joined the lab as a Ph.D. scholar in August’22.
• Sonali joined the lab as a project assistant.
• Congratulations to Haritha for her paper in Chemistry-an Asian journal.
• Congrats to Dr. Sivapriya for her work featured along with Marshall and Warren (2004 Nobel laureates).
• Congratulations to Gaurav for getting the prestigious Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF).
• Dimple left the lab. We wish her the best in her future endeavors.

2021

• Congrats, Aishwarya, for your Ph.D. admission to the University at Buffalo!
• Congratulations to Dr. Kedar Sharma for the post-doc position at NIEHS, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
• Divita joined the lab as a Project assistant.
• Gaurav and Phanindra joined the lab as Ph.D. scholars in July 2021.
• Bhanu Priya, Haritha, and Delna presented the poster presentation at the 27^th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry at IISER Kolkata in Sep. 2021.
• Gurudutt joined the lab as a post-doc Fellow.
• Congrats to Haritha for the Patent, Oct. 2021.
• Congrats to Delna for the Patent, Oct. 2021.
• Parimal joined the lab as a Ph.D. scholar in Dec. 2021.

2020

• Congrats Srimadhavi for the best oral presentation award by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC journal) in the RTCS-OBC Symposium of Indian Chemical Society (ICS)!!
• Congrats Javeena for the post-doctoral position in University of California!
• Congrats Siddhant for the post-doctoral position in University of Massachusetts!
• Congrats Siddhant and Javeena for successfully defending their Ph.D. thesis
• Congrats Althaf for the post-doctoral position at National Institutes of Health (NIH)!
• Parul, Rimjhim and Pragathi: Many congrats for successfully defending your Master’s thesis!
• Congrats Neeru and Rashmi for their paper in BMC Research Notes!
• Congrats Javeena, Deekshi, Pankaj and Tanya for their paper in the Journal of Molecular Structure!
• Congrats Javeena and Dimple for their paper in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters!
• Congrats Rashmi for the post-doctoral position in University of Washington School of Medicine!

2019

• Congrats Althaf and Rashmi for successfully defending their Ph.D. thesis
• Tanya, Ajay, Kaushik and Vaishali: Many congrats for successfully defending your Master thesis!

2018

• Shashank, Paru Duha, Harshit, Ankush: Many congrats for successfully defending your Master thesis!
• Congrats Althaf and Rashmi for their paper in Molecules!
• Congrats Ankush for his Admission as a graduate student in Arizona State University!
• Congrats Gaurav for his admission with several scholarships to Johns Hopkins!!
• Our research is featured in National daily The Hindu: https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/initial-step-to-treat-breast-prostate-cancer/article23466380.ece
• Congrats Siddhant and Althaf for their paper in Scientific Reports!
• Congrats to Siddhant for Fulbright fellowship 2018!

2017

• Congratulations to Javeena Hussain, Gayathri Purushothaman and Siddhant Bhoir for their Indian Patent on Ras inhibitors, 2017
• Congratulations to Javeena Hussain for the best poster award in Indo-German conference on carbohydrates at IIT-BHU, 2017
• Congratulations to Javeena Hussain and Rohit Bhadoria for the best poster award in National Seminar in Recent Drug Discovery and Advances, 2016
• Congratulations to Althaf Shaik and Rashmi Bhakuni for their Indian Patent on ATR inhibitors, 2016