About LN

BIOGRAPHY -

Dr. Laxmi Narayan Nanda

Assistant Professor (OES-I)

PG Department of Chemistry

Government Autonomous College, Angul

Affiliated to Utkal University, Bhubaneswar

E-mail: lnnanda.gaca@gmail.com

Academic Background-

PDF - Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

(2020-21)

Supervisor: Prof. Yuri Tulchinsky

PDF - Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard Medical School Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

(2018)

Supervisor: Prof. A. Choudhary

NPDF - Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

(2017-18)

Supervisor: Prof. K. R. Prasad

PhD - IIT Bombay

(2017)

Supervisor:

Prof. S. J. Gharpure

PhD (Started) at

IIT Madras, Chennai

( 2010)

MSc. - Utkal University, Bhubaneswar (2009)

BEd - Regional Institute of Education, BBSR, NCERT

(2007)

BSc. - NC, (Auto) College, Jajpur,

Utkal University, Bhubaneswar (2005)

Academic/ Research Experience :-

March 2024-ongoing Principal Investigator

MRIP Project, Govt. of Odisha. PG Department of chemistry Government Auto. College, Angul

Research Topic Hypervalent Iodide catalysed Synthesis/Green Synthesis.

Aug 2021-Sept 2023 Senior Research Investigator

Department of Medicinal Chemistry Biocon Bristol Myers Squibb Research Centre, Bangalore

Research topic Discovery of anticancer drug molecules

Feb 2020-July 2021 Post-Doctoral Research Associate

Research supervisor: Prof. Yuri Tulchinsky Institute of Chemistry Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Research Topic Synthesis of Cavitand molecules

Nov 2018-Jan 2020 Scientist-III,

Department of Medicinal Chemistry Aurigene Discovery Technologies Electronic City Phase II, Bengaluru Karnataka 560100

Research Topic Synthesis of smallmolecules

May 2018-October 2018 Post-Doctoral Research Associate

Research supervisor: Prof. Amit Choudhary Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Harvard Medical School Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Research Topic Synthesis of small molecules

February 2017-May 2018 National Post-Doctoral Fellow

Research supervisor: Prof. K. R. Prasad Department of Organic Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Research Topic Brønsted acid catalyzed tetrahydrocarazole synthesis

July 2016-Jan 2010 Research Associate

Research supervisor: Prof. S. J. Gharpure Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

Research Topic Scalable Synthesis of Isooxazoles

Academic Achievements:-

- - S. Sahu, L. N. Nanda, “Hypervalent Iodine Catalyzed Spiroindolinone Synthesis” Sustainable Organic Synthesis, Organized by PG Department of Chemistry, Berhampur University in Dec 20 to 21, 2024. ( Sangram - Won Best Poster Award)
  - MRIP-23, Research Grant, From OSHEC, Govt. of Odisha OnGoing.......
  - National Post-Doctoral Fellowship, February2017-May 2018 Funded by SERB, New Delhi, India
  - Best Poster Award, MEDCHEM 2011, IIT Madras, Chennai, October28-29,2011
  - First Best Flash Presentation, IC-RTCBSMNPDD-2017, Berhampur University, India.
  - Senior Research Fellow, Feb2012-Jan2015
  - Junior Research Fellow , Jan2010-Jan2012
  - Qualified CSIR-NET-JRF, JUNE 2009, All India Rank-32, GATE, 2020, AIR-309
  - Membership: New York Academy of Sciences, USA
  - Got Bravo award in Biocon Bristol Myers Squibb, Bangalore for the development of anticancer drugs.