Prof. Arindam Mukherjee
Department of Chemical Sciences Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata Mohanpur, West Bengal, India Email: [email protected] |
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The GroupAM group is inspired by methodology of designing metal based anticancer agents and small organic molecules that would be resistant to efflux outside cells, inhibit proteins relevant to signalling growth of blood vessels, inhibit cholesterol absorption, active against cancer stem cells or boost the immune system to recognize cancer. A student of AM lab indulges in syntheses, characterization, in vitro experiments with cancer and primary cell lines to determine cytotoxicity using the laboratory and institutes central facilities. Ph.D. students in AM lab are trained in syntheses, characterization, performing various assays and relevant molecular biology techniques. We have established a network of collaboration for studying the impact of our compounds on biological systems with Dr. Arnab Gupta (Department of Biological Sciences, IISER Kolkata), Dr. Rahul Das (Department of Biological Sciences, IISER Kolkata), Dr. Sandeep Singh (National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani) and Dr. Moulinath Acharya (National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani).
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Our HistoryDr. Arindam Mukherjee is an inorganic chemist by training and joined IISER Kolkata on July 2009. The synthetic lab started functioning in 2011 with the help of infrastructure and facilities given by IISER Kolkata. The cell culture facility was established with the help of funding from DST and IISER Kolkata in June 2012. The group only intakes students with a background in chemistry for Ph.D. They may be BS-MS/MS/M.Sc. with organic or inorganic specialization or having no specialization at all. One important aspect of the student's ineterested should be his seriousness towards organic syntheses. The lab uses a lot of organic syntheses with 3-7 steps for designing the prodrug-type ligand involving drugs in clinical trials or in clinical use. Anybody willing to design a project to join the group should think in this line for the proposal write-up.
We welcome Post-doctoral fellows with independent fellowships from various funding agencies, viz. SERB N-PDF.
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