2025-03-07
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
SA136
Agenda
Date: 2025-03-07
Time: 3-4 pm
Location: SA136
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Speaker: Dr Debasis Das
Topic: The Role of Chemistry in Drug Discovery, Research, and Development
Details
Drug discovery research and development is a vast interdisciplinary field within the pharmaceutical industry. It combines a broad range of scientific and technological disciplines, including chemistry, biology, physics, engineering, clinical studies, and statistics. Chemistry plays an essential role in small molecule drug discovery and development, from early-stage hit generation to late-stage lead optimization, and from clinical candidate process research to commercial product manufacturing. This seminar will introduce the entire process of drug discovery and development phases, highlighting the applications of chemistry at each stage.
Speaker
Dr. Das holds a Ph.D. in Science from Jadavpur University and has postdoctoral research experience at Duke University, USA. He has built a career spanning academic institutions and pharma-biotech companies in India and China. Over the past two decades, he has worked with organizations such as Jubilant, Zydus, the TCG Life Sciences Group, KPC Life Sciences, and Wuxi AppTec (药明康德) in Shanghai, where he managed large teams of 45-50 members. Currently, he is the VP at Arromax Pharmatech Co. Ltd in SIP. Dr. Das is highly skilled in structure-based drug design, scaffold hopping, hit-to-lead (H2L) optimization, lead optimization (LO), and pre-clinical candidate (PCC) selection. He has 39 research papers/book chapters and holds 15 patents.
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