Current members

Pradeepkumar received his Ph.D. in Bioorganic Chemistry in 2004 from Uppsala University under  Prof.  Jyoti Chattopadhyaya. Subsequently, he spent three years as a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Scott K. Silverman at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2007, he joined the Department of Chemistry at IIT Bombay, where he is currently a Professor. He was also a Max Planck India Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, GÖttingen, from 2008-2012 and an ASEM-DUO visiting professor at the University of Wurzberg (2022).

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Dr. Siddharam Bagale completed his Ph.D. thesis on the topic "Synthesis of Damaged DNAs to Study the Tolerance of Human Y-family Polymerases and Developing Inhibitors of Aminoacyl t-RNA Synthetases of Malarial Parasite " from IIT Bombay. He was a Ph.D. student in the NACB lab and now joined here as an institute post-doctoral fellow. He is currently working on the synthesis of modified nucleoside analogues. 

Abhishek completed his Ph.D. thesis on the  topic "Computational investigation on lysine methyl transferase G9a and identification of potential epigenitic inhibitors" from NIT Durgapur. He joined as a postdoctoral fellow in the NACB lab in September 2024. He is currently working on molecular modeling studies of protein-RNA complexes. 

Sruthi Sudhakar submitted her Ph.D thesis and joined as an institute post-doctoral fellow in October 2024. Her research mainly focuses on molecular modeling and dynamics studies of functional nucleic acids like G-quadruplexes, damaged DNA adducts, and CRISPR assemblies. 

Leena from Maharashtra joined the NACB lab in July 2019 as a Ph.D. student. She completed her M.Sc. from Savitribai Phule Pune University in 2018. Her research is mainly focused on antimicrobial resistance. She is also working on the in-silico screening of small molecule ligands inhibiting DNA methyl transferases. 

Poonam from Faridabad joined the NACB lab in December 2019  as a Ph.D. student (UGC fellow). She completed her M.Sc. from Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology, Sonipat, in 2017. Her research mainly focuses on synthesizing N2-dG adducts and their studies with human TLS polymerases.  She is also working on the synthesis of t-RNA mimics.

Dilnawaj, from Uttar Pradesh, joined the NACB lab in December 2021 as a Ph.D. student. He completed his MSc from the University of Delhi in 2018. His research mainly focuses on synthesizing small molecule G-quadruplex binding ligands and their biophysical, biochemical, and in-vivo studies. 

Priyasha, from West Bengal, joined the NACB lab in July 2022  as a Ph.D. student. She completed his MSc from the IIT Dhanbad in 2021. Her research mainly focuses on the molecular modeling and dynamics studies of  protein-nucleic acid complexes. 

Siddhesh, from Maharashtra, joined the NACB lab in July 2023  as a Ph.D. student. He completed his MSc from the ICT Mumbai in 2022. His research mainly focuses on the synthesis of nucleoside modifications. 

Ganga, from Rajasthan, joined the NACB lab in December 2023  as a Ph.D. student. She completed her MSc from S.S Jain Subhodh PG College, Jaipur, in 2023. Her research mainly focuses on identifying DNA enzymes that catalyze various biochemical reactions.  

Ankana, from West Bengal, joined the NACB lab in July 2024  as a Ph.D. student. She completed his MSc from the IIT Dhanbad in 2021. Her research mainly focuses on the synthesis of nucleoside modifications.

Shalley joined the NACB lab in June 2024  as a M.S project student. Her research mainly focuses on the antimicrobial resistance. 

Ritobina joined the NACB lab in July 2024 as a M.S. project student. Her research mainly focuses on the synthesizing small molecule G-quadruplex binding ligands and their biophysical and biochemical studies. 

Sidharth joined NACB lab as a project staff in August 2024. His research focuses on the molecular dynamics studies of Protein-nucleic acid complexes.