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Gnanakalai Shanmugavel holds an Master of Pharmacy in Pharmaceutical chemistry from the Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University, Chennai, India. She works in Professor Peter Dedon’s laboratory at SMART as a Senior Laboratory Technologist.

Gnanakalai Shanmugavel 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.