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Srivari Chandrasekhar has been appointed as the new Director for CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad.
The 51 year old, Chandrasekhar leads the natural products Chemistry division at the IICT. He is the 2014 Infosys prize winner in Chemical Sciences and an Alexander von Humboldt fellow. He joined the lab in 1986 as a junior research fellow.
He has made significant contributions in diverse areas of organic chemistry with a special emphasis on chiral chemistry, total synthesis of biologically active natural products and pharmaceutical products. He has developed polyethylene glycol (PEG) as a novel, environmentally benign solvent medium.
In addition to publishing 250 scientific papers, Chandrasekhar and team have developed technologies for synthesis of latest anti-tuberculosis drug, bedaquiline; anti-tumor and abortive drug, mesoprostol; anti depressive compound, sertralin and drug for treatment of schizophrenia, asenapine.
Under his guidance 50 students have been already awarded Ph. D. degree and 20 post doctoral associates have worked in his group. The awards he received include CNR Rao National Prize for Chemical Research 2012 and CSIR Technology award 2014.
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