 | Dr. Nirmal Kumar joined the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 2001 for his doctoral study on Synthetic Studies on Eleutherobin under the guidance of Professor Krishna P. Kaliappan. He was a postdoctoral research fellow in the group of Professor Derrick L. J. Clive at the Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, to work on the synthesis of complex natural product CP-225, 917 and CP-263, 114. He has a rich experience spanning nearly 16 years of leadership positions in reputed organisations like Jubilant, INTAS, Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd., GVK-Bio etc. Dr. Nirmal Kumar is currently working as Senior General Manager and Head (Chemistry, Manufacturing and Control) at Zydus Research Centre, Zydus Lifesciences Ltd, Ahmadabad and leading a large team of scientists for Process Development of NCE/API for regulated markets and also life cycle management of the products. |
 | Dr. Rahul Nandurdikar joined KPK’s group in 2001 and obtained is Ph.D in 2006. He worked at ETH, Zurich as a post-doc for a year with Prof. A. Vasella and also at NCI, Bethesda, USA. He worked on the synthesis of core structure of taxol, thapsigargins and dioxatriquinanes for his Ph.D. He is currently working in Lupin Pharmaceuticals, Pune. |
 | Dr. Samaresh Panda joined KPK’s group in 2001 and obtained his Ph.D in 2007. He worked on the total syntheses of otteliones, aspinolide and aigalomycin. He is currently a scientist at Lupin, Pune. |
 | Dr. V. Ravikumar joined KPK’s group in July 2002 after his M.Sc. from Madurai Kamaraj University and a couple of years of experience in Dr. Reddy’s Research Foundation. He worked on the synthesis of platensimycin, taxol, angucylinone antibiotics and sugar-oxasteroid-quinone hybrids. After a couple of years of post-doc experience at University of Geneva, he is currently working as a scientist at Advinus Pharmaceuticals, Pune. |
 | Dr. A. V. Subrahmanyam joined KPK’s group after his M.Sc., from Andhra University in 2002 and obtained his Ph.D in 2008. He worked on the total synthesis of salicylihalamide, C-Aryl Glycosides and platencin. He is currently a post-doc fellow at the UMASS, Amherst. |
 | Dr Narayana Murthy completed his PhD in 2008 from IIT Bombay under Prof. Krishna P Kaliappan on 'Synthetic studies on Herbarumin, Cladospolide A and Eleutherobin'. He completed his post-doctoral studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2010 and Stanford University, School of Medicine in 2011. He has a rich organizational experience since 2012 in reputed organizations like Anthem Biosciences private limited, Bal Pharma Ltd., RL Fine Chem Pvt. Ltd., and Solara Active Pharma Sciences Ltd. Currently he is the General Manager of R&D at Tagros Chemicals India Pvt. Ltd., Chennai.. |
 | Dr. P. Gowrisankar joined KPK’s group after his M.Sc., from Anna University and a couple of years experience in Dr. Reddy’s Research Foundation. He joined the group in 2003 and completed his Ph.D in 2009. He did his post-doc at Purdue University and is currently a post-doc follow at University of Geneva. He worked on the total synthesis of palmerolide A, epothilones and dysidiolide. |
 | Dr. Prasanta Das joined KPK’s group in July 2003 after his M.Sc. from IIT Kanpur. He worked on the synthesis of oxa and aza-bridged polycyclitols, hyacynthacines and bicyclic azasugars. He did his post-doc at the University of Texas, South Western Medical Center, USA and is currently a post-doc at Jackson State University, USA. |
 | Sandip A. Pujari joined KPK’s group for Ph.D in 2005 and obtained his Ph.D in 2011. He worked on the total syntheses of palmerolide A, spongidepsin and callystatin A. He is currently a post-doc fellow at University of Geneva. |
 | Kalanidhi joined KPK's group for Ph.D in December 2005 and completed in 2012. He worked on the total syntheses of platensimycin, platencin and mevinolin. |
 | Debjani joined KPK's lab in July 2007 and completed her Ph.D in 2013. She worked on the total syntheses of cladospolides, discodermolide and dolofibriol. |
 | Rama joined KPK's group in July 2007 and completed her Ph.D in 2012. She worked on total synthesis of zaragozoic acid and synthetic utility of cyclic nitrones. |
 | Devender joined KPK's lab in July 2008 and completed his Ph.D in 2013. He worked on total synthesis of angucyclines antibiotics and syntetic studies on apicularen A. |
 | Parthasarathy joined KPK's group in December 2008. He worked on the total synthesis of taxol. |
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 | Vipul Betkekar did his MSc. from Goa-university in 2008. He spent a couple of years at Syngenta Biosciences Pvt. Ltd. before joining KPK's group in December 2010. He primarily worked on the synthesis of Vinigrol. Currently, he is working as a post-doctoral researcher at Prof. Keisuke Suzuki and Prof. Ken Ohmori's research group at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. |
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 | After completing his BSc from the erstwhile Presidency College in Kolkata and MSc from IIT Kanpur, he joined KPK's group in January 2013 for his PhD. Initially, he worked on the development of novel transition metal-catalyzed transformations toward biologically relevant molecular scaffolds, before working on synthetic studies towards cortistatins, taxol and dendrobine. He graduated with his PhD in 2019 and is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the research group of Prof. Yujiro Hayashi at Tohoku University in Japan. |
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 | Mr. Vikram Bhat did his M.Sc. project in KPK’s group in 2004/5 and after completing his Ph.D in University of Chicago under the supervision of Prof. Viresh Rawal, joined Prof. Robert Grubbs' group at Caltech. He received the prestigious Reaxys Prize for the year 2011. |
 | Ms. Venuka Durani did her M.Sc. project in KPK’s group in 2005/6 and she was a graduate student at Ohio State University. |
 | Mr. Ankit Sharma did his M.Sc. project in KPK’s group in 2006/7 and he was pursuing his Ph.D in University of Geneva (Prof. Jerome Lacour) |
 | Mr. Sumit Kumar did his M.Sc. project in KPK’s group in 2007/8. |
 | Ms. Deepti Gopalakrishnan |
 | Mr. Chintan Sumaria |
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 | Krish Hirani |
 | Vaibhav Sambre |
 | Piyush Arya |
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 | Dr. Raghunath Roy did his M.Sc. project in KPK’s group during 2002/2003 and obtained his Ph.D in 2008 from UMASS, Amherst (Prof. S. Thayumanavan). He was working as a post-doc in University of Delaware. |
 | Mr. Somnath Jana did his M.Sc. project in KPK’s group in 2004/5 and he was pursuing his Ph.D at Oregon State University under the guidance of Prof. James D. White. |
 | Mr. Dipankar Basak did his M.Sc. project in KPK’s group in 2005/6 and he was purusing his Ph.D at UMASS, Amherst (Prof. D. Venkataraman). |
 | Dr. Shiven Kapur did his MSc. Project in KPK's group in 2005/6. He completed his PhD in Chemistry and postdoc in Bioengineering and Medicine at Stanford University before joining Lilly in 2016. He is a Principal Research Scientist at the Lilly Innovation Center in Cambridge, MA as part of the Bioproduct Research and Development group. |
 | Mr. Subham Mahapatra did his M.Sc. project in KPK’s group in 2006/7 and he was doing his Ph.D under the guidance of Prof. Rich Carter (Oregon State University). |
 | Mr. Aniruddha Sasmal did his M.Sc. project in KPK’s group in 2007/8 and he was doing his Ph.D under the guidance of Prof. Dennis P. Curran (University of Pittsburgh). |
 | Mr. Souvagya Biswas |
 | Mr. Animesh Verma |
 | Mr. Amit Kumar Dutta |
 | Mr. Shyamal Chakraborty |
 | Ms. Nidhi Kakkar |
 | Mr. Subir Goswami |
 | Mr. Kartik Mallick |
 | Mr. Malay Sen |
 | Ms. Jayeeta |
 | Mr. Arup Basak |
 | Mr. Gaurav |
 | Mr. Rajat |
 | Mr. Dheeraj |
 | Hemant Nagpal |
 | Netai Aditya |
 | Aosheen Anand |
 | Dipankar Kundu |
 | Nishu did her MSc. Project in KPK's group in 2020-21. Later, she worked as a project staff in KPK's group from July 2021-January 2022. Currently, she is doing her PhD at Max Plank Institute, Germany with Prof. Peter H Seeberger. |
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