About SSR

Dr. Someswara Rao Sanapala completed his B.Sc. in Chemistry and Master’s in Organic Chemistry from Andhra University. After spending 2.5 years in the pharmaceutical industry, he moved to IIT Bombay to obtain his Ph.D under the supervision of Prof. Suvarn S. Kulkarni. During his doctoral studies, he developed novel expedient routes to access rare deoxy amino L-sugars of bacterial origin and extended in total synthesis of bacterial glycoconjugates. He moved to Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany for his postdoctoral studies with Prof. Peter H. Seeberger, wherein he spent 2.6 years and developed novel strategies towards glycoconjugate vaccine against a Gram-positive bacteria Streptococcus pneumoniae. He served as senior scientist in Vaxxilon Deutschland GmbH for 2.5 years on synthesis and clinical development of synthetic glycoconjugate vaccines and their formulations, before moving to IIT Tirupati as an assistant professor in the department of chemistry in 2022.

Dr. Someswara Rao Sanapala

Professional Experience:

- - Postdoc, Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, 2017-2019 (With Prof. Peter Seeberger)
  - Senior Scienstist, Vaxxilon GmbH Deutschland (Idorsia), 2019-2021
  - Assistant Professor, IIT Tirupati, 2022-

Education

- - B.Sc., Govt. Degree College, Men, Srikakulam
  - M.Sc. (organic chemistry), MVR PG college, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam
  - Ph.D. , IIT Bombay, 2011-2016 (with Prof. Suvarn S. Kulkarni)

Academic Achievements/Awards

2017 SAILIFE-NOST best thesis award (best among 10 thesis awards across India)

2016 Best oral/poster presentation (1st prize) in CARBO-XXXI International Conference on "New Frontiers in Carbohydrate Chemistry & Biology"

2015 Best oral presentation, National Conference on Chirality, MS University

2015 Awarded and nominated to receive financial grant from Carl Storm International Diversity (CSID) fund to attend Gordon Research Conference-2015

2013 Awarded UGC-Senior Research Fellowship (July 2013 - Jul 2016), Delhi

2011 Awarded UGC-Junior Research Fellowship (July 2011 - July 2013), Delhi

2011, 2012 Qualified National Eligibility Test (NET) conducted by Council of Scientific

and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Dec 2011 and June 2012

Contact:

Dr. Someswara Rao Sanapala

Department of Chemistry, AB2 3rd floor,

Yerpedu, IIT Tirupati, AP, India-517619

Email: somesh@iittp.ac.in

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