Biography

Dr. Sandeep Chaudhary was born and raised up in the defense environment family (Birthplace: Jodhpur). He did his M.Sc in Chemistry from Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University (DDUGU), Gorakhpur, UP. After qualifying several competitive exams such as NET, GATE, ASRB etc.; He did his Ph.D in Organic and Medicinal Chemistry from CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi from 2002-2007 with Prof. Dr. Chandan Singh [Scientist G (Retd.), Director Grade Scientist]. He then moved to USA and worked as Research Staff (Postdoctoral fellow) at The City University of New York, New York, USA from 2008-2010 with Prof. Wayne W. Harding [Associate Professor, CUNY - Hunter College]. After that, he availed one of the world most prestigious award given by the "Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)", Japan and worked as "JSPS PostDoctoral fellow" at Institute of Microbial Chemistry, Microbial Chemistry Research Foundation, Tokyo, Japan from 2010-2012 with Prof. Dr. Masakatsu Shibasaki [Director, Institute of Microbial Chemistry; Chairman, Board of Governors, Microbial Chemistry Research Foundation, Tokyo; Emeritus Professor, The University of Tokyo; Emeritus Professor, University of Hokkaido; Regional Editor, Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. Journal].

Dr. Sandeep Chaudhary is currently serving as a Dean, NIPER-Raebareli since Feb, 2022. He is also currently working as HoD and Associate Professor in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Raebareli (NIPER-R), Lucknow Campus, Lucknow since June, 2021. Earlier, He worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur (MNIT Jaipur), Rajasthan, India from Oct, 2012 to June, 2021. He was a committee member in the establishment of the highly sophisticated instrumentation facility center i.e., Materials Research Centre (later name changed to Advanced Centre for Material Research) in the institute and also served as "Adjunct Faculty" position in the Advanced Centre for Material Research from 2013-2015. He has, overall, 11 years of total teaching experience and 16 years of total research experience.

Profile Summary: Ph.D: [CSIR-CDRI,Lucknow & JNU,New Delhi];Postdoc from USA and Japan: 4 yrs 9 months (including JSPS; Completed projects- 15; Ongoing project-01; Projects as Host Mentor: 04(Completed); Organized 01 International Conference & 02 CDP; 75 International Publications & 03 Patents; 70 Int. Conference Proceedings; 10 Workshops; 59 Invited lectures/Plenary/keynote lectures; Established OMC lab at MNIT Jaipur and BHC lab at NIPER-Raebareli; Ph.D Supervised:08(Completed) & 06(Ongoing); Postdoc’s Supervised: 04; M.Sc/M.S. (Pharma) Dissertation:35(Completed) & 11(Ongoing); Research Training: 10.

My Research Areas of Interest:
1. Organocatalyzed C―H bond activation & Cross-Dehydrogenative Coupling reactions: Exploration with special emphasis by the use of new small molecules as Organocatalyst; Design, development and identification of new organocatalytic systems for C-H bond activation and direct arylation reactions.
2. Medicinal chemistry, drug discovery & process development: Mechanism/target/structure-based drug discovery, lead generation and lead optimization; Design, Synthesis and SAR study of new bio-active molecules, particularly in the field of novel antimalarials, antitubercular, anticancer, anti-influenza and psychoactive (CNS) agents.
3. Transition Metal-catalyzed C―C & C―N bond formation via C―H bond activation: Exploration with special emphasis by the use of cheaper transition metals; design and development of new metal-ligand catalyst systems and their investigations in direct arylation reactions. Investigation of cross-coupling, hydroarylations, and Cyclization as well as addition reactions via development of metal-ligand catalytic systems will also be pursued.
4. Development of catalytic asymmetric reactions / New Synthetic Methodologies.
5. Asymmetric catalysis / Synthesis: Design and development of new metallo-catalyst and organo-catalysts, development of direct catalytic asymmetric C-C bond-forming transformations.
6. Total synthesis of biologically active Natural Products/Drugs/Therapeutics.
7. Green chemistry: Application of microwave-assisted/ ultrasound-assisted organic transformations; Explorations of organic reactions either under solvent-free conditions or using cheap innocuous alternate reaction media such as water and ionic liquids.