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sharada duddu

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Central Leather Research Institute CSIR, University of Hyderabad, Osmania University, Orchid Research Laboratories Ltd

ORCID iD 0000-0001-5861-4126
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Sharada D. S. received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree (1998) in Chemistry from Osmania University, Hyderabad and was awarded Mohan Reddy Memorial Gold Medal (B.Sc, 1996) and Sadashiv Devdas Thatte Memorial Gold Medal (M.Sc, 1998). Her fascination for Chemistry in general and Organic Chemistry, in particular, was kindled during the M.Sc program, by the excellent teachers, and in particular Prof. David Krupanandam, who motivated her to pursue higher studies. After securing UGC-JRF (1998), she had the honor to pursue her doctoral studies in Baylis-Hillman chemistry with Prof. D. Basavaiah, Hyderabad Central University (HCU) who obtained Ph.D. with Prof. Gurbakhsh Singh (belonging to the academic genealogy of R. B. Woodward) and the postdoctoral fellowship with Prof. H. C. Brown at Purdue University. Subsequently, she joined in the postdoctoral program with Prof. Jonathan S. Lindsey from North Carolina State University, USA, involving in the synthesis of tetra-pyrrolic macrocycles for molecular engineering application in biomedical and molecular electronics. Later, she moved to Drug Discovery Department, Orchid Pharma, Chennai, India as a research scientist, identifying novel small molecules, particularly for HDAC and IL6/STAT3 as therapeutic targets in cancer therapy.
Her desire to start an independent research career has led to the award of DST-WOS-A fellowship, wherein after a short stay at CLRI, Chennai, she moved to Department of Chemistry, IIT Hyderabad as Assistant Professor (2011 to 2016) and currently she is Associate Professor (2017 to present). The diverse chemical processes occurring in nature have always intrigued her moreover, the societal demand for environmentally friendly processes have motivated to focus mainly on the development of Sustainable Chemistry. In particular, her focus lies on Organo-, Bio-inspired- and Photoredox catalysis leading to valuable synthetic intermediates and molecules with interesting properties. Moreover, their interests also lie in the Bio-mimetic and enzyme-based stereoselective synthesis of chiral molecules.

Employment

  • Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad Associate Professor
    2017 - Present
  • Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad Assistant Professor
    2011 - 2017
  • Central Leather Research Institute CSIR Principal Investigator.
    2010 - 2011
  • Orchid Research Laboratories Ltd Research Scientist
    2005 - 2009

Education

  • University of Hyderabad Doctoral Fellow
    1999 - 2004
  • Osmania University Master of Science
    1997 - 1999

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