Parthasarathi Das's Biography

Parthasarathi Das, Scientist, Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (CSIR)

Parthasarathi Das received his MSc degree from Burdwan university. He then moved to National Chemical laboratory, Pune to pursue his doctoral studies where he received his PhD in 1998 under the supervision of Dr. Ganesh Pandey. He did postdoctoral work at the RWTH-Aachen, Germany (Prof. H-J Gais), Tohoku University, Japan (Prof. Masahiro Hirama) and Harvard University, USA (Prof. Yoshito Kishi). In 2003 he moved to India to join Discovery Research of Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd. and worked in discovery chemistry with research focus in various therapeutic areas e.g. oncology, metabolic disorder and antibacterial. In 2011 he moved to Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (CSIR), a premier research laboratory focused on drug discovery and natural products research. His current research interests include medicinal chemistry, development of new synthetic methodology and synthesis of biologically active natural products. He serves on the editorial board of the journals; The Scientific World Journal-Organic Chemistry and Journal of Pharmaceutics.