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Protein Folding De novo Protein Design
Ranjit Ranbhor Soumendra Rana Anil Kumar Deepa Pednekar Kirti Patel Abhijit Tendulkar Sourav Das
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Prof S. Durani Academic Background
Graduation: Chemistry; 1970; Jammu University. Master: Organic Chemistry; 1972; Jammu University. Doctorate: Chemistry; 1977; CDRI, Lucknow.
Professional Experience
1989- Professor, IIT Bombay. 1987-1989 Assoc. Prof., IIT Bombay. 1985-1987 Asst. Prof., IIT Bombay. 1982 -1985 Scientist C, CDRI, Lucknow 1977-1982 Scientist B, CDRI, Lucknow. Contact : sdurani@iitb.ac.in
Contributions:
Dr. Durani did his doctoral research at Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, during 1972-77, with Dr. Nityanand, the then director of CDRI as his supervisor. He worked in field of Medicinal Chemistry and subject of Drug Discovery. Dr. Durani joined CDRI as a scientist in 1977 and continued in this position up to 1985. Leading a group of researchers Dr. Durani contributed in classifying Structure Activity Relationships in antiestrogens and accomplished rational design of a new antiestrogen as a potential drug for contraception , breast cancer and osteoporosis. He joined IIT Bombay in 1985 and is currently a Professor in Chemistry. He was instrumental in founding the Biotechnology Centre at IIT Bombay and was its Head during the period 1992-2002. At IIT Bombay he had worked on the broad field of Bio-Organic Chemistry. He has made contributions on subjects of enzyme action, protein folding and de novo design.
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