I am experienced in total syntheses of natural products, synthetic methodology, small molecule drug discovery, peptides and peptide nucleic acids (PNAs), antibody drug conjugates (ADCs) and process development.

Selected Publications:

• Saha, M.; Carter, R. G. “Toward a Unified Approach for Lycopodines: Synthesis of 10-Hydroxylycopdoine, Deacetylpaniculine, and Paniculine.” Org. Lett. 2013, 15, 736-739.

• Saha, M.; Scerba, M. T.; Shank, N. I.; Hartman, T. L.; Buckheit Jr., R.W.; Appella, D. H. “Probing Mercaptobenzamides as HIV Inactivators via Nucleocapsid Protein 7.” ChemMedChem 2017, 12, 714-721. Cover Page.

• Saha, M.; Carter, R. G. “Lycopodium Alkaloids: An Intramolecular Michael Reaction Approach.” Synlett 2017, 28, 2212-2229. PDF

• Zheng, H.; Saha, M.; Appella, D. H. "Synthesis of Fmoc-Protected (S,S)-trans-Cyclopentane Diamine Monomers Enables the Preparation and Study of Conformationally Restricted Peptide Nucleic Acids" Org. Lett. 2018, 20, 7637-7640.

• Nittoli, T.; Choi, S. S.; Saha, M. "Rifamycin analogs and antibody-drug conjugates thereof" World Intellectual Property Organization 2020 WO2020132483A1.