Dr. P. Srihari born in Hyderabad, India (1974) completed his Masters from P. G. College of Science, Saifabad, Osmania University in 1997. After completing his M.Phil (1998) at University of Hyderabad, he has joined Dr. J. S. Yadav’s group for his Ph.D programme (Nov 1998-Oct 2003). He moved to Rutgers, The state university of New Jersey, USA (Nov 2003) for his postdoctoral fellowship with Prof. Spencer Knapp and returned to CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad in July 2005 and joined as Quick Hire Research Fellow Scientist. Presently is working as Chief Scientist (previously designated as Scientist G) in the department of Organic Synthesis & Process Chemistry.
The main areas of research include Asymmetric synthesis, Synthesis of newly isolated potent natural products and their analogues, Medicinal Chemistry, Development of methodologies involving C-C / C-X bond formation reactions, Flow chemistry for API synthesis.
Dr. Srihari is a CSIR Young Scientist Awardee for the year 2009 in the field of Chemical Sciences and OPPI Young Scientist Awardee for the year 2009 in the field of Pharmaceutical Sciences, He is recipient of AVRA Young Scientist Award 2014, Dr. A.K.Singh Memorial Young Scientist Award for the year 2016 in Synthetic Organic Chemistry. CDRI Award of excellence in Drug Research in the area of Chemical Sciences for year 2018, CRSI Bronze medal in 2021 and Acharya P C Ray Flow Technology award in 2021.
He has published more than 140 publications in international Journals of repute and has 22 patent applications filed. Fifteen students have been awarded Ph.D doctorate under his guidance, 14 M.Sc students and 6 M.Pharmacy students have completed their dissertation projects. Presently he is supervising 10 students for their Ph.D programme.