Rajkumar Halder's Biography

Rajkumar Halder, Scientist E, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute

Rajkumar is currently working as a Scientist E (PI) at Drug Discovery Research Centre, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, India, focusing on to control cell fate using small organic molecules and natural products to prevent and/or cure metabolic disorder and infectious diseases. He also focuses on to prolong the healthy living through establishing and using the cocktail of natural products. He completed my Ph. D. in Organic Chemistry from University of the Basque Country, Spain after finishing his study from Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur. He did his postdoctoral research from The Scripps Research Institute, Department of Chemistry and the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, La Jolla, California and Max-Planck-Institute for Coal Research, Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany. Rajkumar has two and half years of Pharmaceutical Industry Experiences at Novartis (GNF), San Diego, CA, USA on drug discovery for resistant and persistent mycobacterium Tuberculosis.