Organic & Medicinal Chemistry

To develop strategies for the synthesis of chiral cyclic ethers, amines and RNA analogs from carbohydrate derivatives.
To develop new synthetic methodologies, and synthesize heterocyclic compounds for screening biological activities.
To establish methodologies for carbohydrate-derived structurally unique nucleosides.
To develop and commercialize herbal medicines and other bioactive molecules.
To isolate and characterize bioactive substances from medicinal plants.
To design and synthesize medium ring heterocycles as potential anti-cancer, anti-hyperlipidemic and antimicrobial agents.
To synthesize oligosaccharides and neo-glycoproteins as vaccine candidates, and carry out structural studies on pathogenic bacterial lipopolysaccharides relevant to glycobiology and glycoscience.
To develop methodologies for the synthesis of anti-leishmanial and anti-encephalitis compounds based on quinolines.
To design and synthesize novel chiral surfactants for exploring new reaction systems and reagents for carrying out selective organic reactions in organized media.
To study nanoscopic materials such as stabilized nanoparticles and nanofibers.
To understand the mode, mechanism, sequence specificity and energetics of binding of alkaloids and other natural products to polymorphic nucleic acid structures.

Chinmay Chowdhury

Head and Chief Scientist , Organic & Medicinal Chemistry

chinmay@iicb.res.in

Arindam Talukdar

Senior Principal Scientist

atalukdar@iicb.res.in
Biswadip Banerji

Chief Scientist, & Head of the Department, Central Instrumentation Facility (CIF, IICB)

biswadip@iicb.res.in, biswadip.banerji@gmail.com
Deepak Kumar

Senior Scientist

deepak@iicb.res.in
Indrajit Das

Senior Principal Scientist

indrajit@iicb.res.in
Indu Bhusan Deb

Senior Principal Scientist

indubhusandeb@iicb.res.in
John Mondal

Principal Scientist

Johnmondal@iicb.res.in
Manish Debnath

Scientist

manish.debnath@iicb.res.in / inceptmanish@gmail.com
Ramalingam Natarajan

Senior Principal Scientist

rnatraj@iicb.res.in
Ranjan Jana

Senior Principal Scientist

rjana@iicb.res.in
Rashmi Gaur

Scientist

rashmi@iicb.res.in
Sanjay Dutta

Senior Principal Scientist

sanjaydutta@iicb.res.in
Saraswati Garai

Scientist

saraswatigarai@iicb.res.in