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Dr. Seetharamsingh Balamkundu

PhD, Postdoctoral associate

Dr. Seetharamsingh holds an M.Sc. Organic Chemistry and he received his Ph.D from National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India in 2016. His doctoral studies focused on the "Silicon Switch approach of marketed drugs to identify molecules with improved pharmacokinetic properties and total synthesis of biologically active natural products". In 2016 he joined Peter Dedon’s laboratory at SMART as a postdoctoral associate.

Dr. Seetharamsingh works on structure-based drug design project between the Dedon lab and Liu Chuan Fa’s lab at NTU School of Biological Sciences to develop novel antibiotic small molecules to treat multi-drug resistant bacteria.

Research Interests

Medicinal chemistry

Nucleoside chemistry

Total synthesis of natural products