Dr. Nandita Madhavan

    Asscociate Professor

    Department of Chemistry

    Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

    Powai, Mumbai 400076

    

    Ph:   022 2576 7164     

    Fax: 022 2576 7152

    Email: nanditam[at]chem.iitb.ac.in

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Academic Background

- Ph. D.: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, 2006

- M. Sc. : Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Bombay, 2000

- B. Sc.: S. I. E. S. College, University of Mumbai, 1998

Professional Experience

Associate Professor, IIT Bombay (July 2016 - )

Associate Professor, IIT Madras (July 2015 - )

Assistant Professor, IIT Madras (Mar 2009 - Jul 2015)

Post-doctoral Associate, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA (Aug 2006 - Dec 2009)

 

Research Interests

 

  • Development of soluble supports for peptide synthesis .
  • Design of peptide derived internally functionalized pores .
  • Peptidic synthetic ion channels and molecular switches.

Representative Selected Publications:

       
  • Basak, D.; Sridhar, S.; Bera, A. K.; Madhavan, N. Org. Biomol. Chem. 2016, 14, 4712 - 4717.
  • Potnuru, M.; Madhavan, N. "Robust Carboxylated Polymer Pores from a Cyclic Peptide Template" Polym. Chem. 2016, 7, 31-35.
  • Behera, H.; Ramkumar, V.; Madhavan, N. "Cation Transporting Peptides: Scaffolds for Functionalized Pores" Chem.Eur. J. 2015, 21, 10179-10184.
  • Benke, B. P.; Madhavan, N. "Aminobenzoic Acid Incorporated Octapeptides for Cation Transport" Bioorg. Med. Chem. 2015, 23, 1413-1420.
  • Naganna, N.; Madhavan, N. "Soluble Non-Crosslinked Poly(norbornene) Supports for Peptide Synthesis with Minimal Reagents" J. Org. Chem. 2014, 79, 11549-11557.
  • Naganna, N.; Madhavan, N. "Soluble & Reusable Poly(norbornene) Supports with High Loading Capacities for Peptide Synthesis" Org. Lett.2013, 15, 5870-5873.
  • Benke, B. P.; Madhavan, N. "Active Ion Transporters from Readily Accessible Acyclic Octapeptides containing 3-Aminobenzoic Acid & Alanine" Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 7340-7342.


Awards and Fellowships :

  • 2005  - University of Illinois R. C. Fuson Travel Award  - Award for graduate research performance.
  • 2002 - 2001  - UIUC List of Teachers Rated Excellent  - Awarded by Daily Illini (local newspaper UIUC) based on student feedback on Teaching.
  • 2000  - Institute Silver Medal, Shri Prakash Krishnan Award I.I.T. Bombay  - First in graduating class - M. Sc. Program.
  • 1998  - Seven academic prizes, S. I. E. S. College, Mumbai  - First in graduating class - B. Sc. Chemistry