Seetharama Jois's Biography

Seetharama Jois, Professor, University Of Louisiana At Monroe

Dr. Seetharama D. Jois is a professor of Medicinal Chemistry in the school of Pharmacy, the University of Louisiana at Monroe, USA. Before joining the University of Louisiana at Monroe in 2006, he worked as an Assistant Professor in the school of Pharmacy at the National University of Singapore for six years. Dr. Jois obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1994 from Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India and a Master’s degree in Physics from the University of Mysore India. After his Ph.D. degree, Dr. Jois obtained extensive training in Pharmaceutical Chemistry research at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS. During the past 16 years at ULM, he has established research in a unique area of drug design discovery, namely protein-protein interaction and drug design. Dr. Jois’ research interest is in the area of peptidomimetic based drug design as a promising approach for developing therapeutic agents for autoimmune diseases, inflammatory diseases, and cancer.