S Chandrasekhar appointed IICT director

Ch Sushil Rao / TNN / Updated: Jun 9, 2015, 21:57 IST

Share

AA

Text Size

Small
Medium
Large

Srivari Chandrasekhar has been appointed as director of CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT).

HYDERABAD: Srivari Chandrasekhar has been appointed as director of CSIR- Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT).
The appointment made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is also the president of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research was announced on Tuesday.
Chandrasekhar was born in Hyderabad and did his entire education in the city before joining IICT in 1986 as Junior Research Fellow to his PhD.
Before his appointment as director of IICT, Chandrasekhar was leading one of the largest groups, Natural Products Chemistry, at IICT. He has more than 250 publications to his credit and was also a recipient of the Infosys prize in Chemical Sciences 2014.
Chandrasekhar has made significant contributions in organic chemistry with a special emphasis on chiral chemistry, total synthesis of biologically active natural products and pharmaceutical products.
He developed polyethylene glycol (PEG) as a novel environmentally benign solvent medium. He also developed technologies for synthesis of latest anti-tuberculosis drug, bedaquiline, anti-tumor and abortive drug, misoprostol, anti platelet molecule, beroprost, anti-depressive compound, sertraline, and drug for treatment of schizophrenia, Asenapine.

About the Author

Ch Sushil Rao

Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

End of Article

FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA