Santosh Gharpure

About

Santosh J. Gharpure was born in Thane (Maharashtra), India in 1974 and grew up in Kasa (Maharashtra), India. He had his early schooling in Kasa and later got his B.Sc. degree studying at KET’s V. G. Vaze College in Mumbai, India in 1994. He joined Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai for an M.Sc. programme during which he did his M.Sc. dissertation with Prof. (Mrs.) S. V. Bhat. Subsequently, he joined Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru for a Ph.D. programme under guidance of Late Prof. A. Srikrishna and graduated in 2001. His Ph.D. thesis focused on enantiospecific total synthesis of neopupukeananes belonging to sesquiterpene class of natural products. From 2001-2004, Santosh was a Post-doctoral fellow at Indiana University, Bloomington (USA) in the lab of Prof. P. Andrew Evans. He developed bismuth mediated etherification reactions for the synthesis of cyclic ethers, which was used in the total synthesis of mucosin – a natural product belonging to family of anonaceous acetogenins and a potent antitumor agent active against pancreatic cancer.
On returning from USA, Santosh joined the Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras as an Assistant Professor. In 2012, he moved to Department of Chemistry, IIT Bombay, Mumbai as an Associate Professor. In December 2016, he was promoted to the Professor position. Currently, he holds the position of ‘Rasiklal Hemani Fragrance and Flavour Chair Professor’. He is also Professor In-Charge of SINE, IIT Bombay’s Technology Business Incubator. His research focuses on organic chemistry pertaining to natural and unnatural product synthesis and developing new synthetic methodologies.
Santosh is a recipient of INSA Medal for Young Scientist awarded by Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi. He was presented with IIT Madras Young Faculty Recognition Award (YFRA) for his contribution in teaching and research in 2010. He received B. M. Birla science Prize in Chemistry for the year 2011. IIT Bombay conferred on him the Excellence in Teaching Award in the year 2015 and Departmental award for excellence in teaching in 2019. He was selected as Themis Medicare UICT Diamond Jubilee Distinguished Fellow in Pharmaceutical Science for the year 2015-16 of ICT, Mumbai. He was selected for the award of Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Bronze Medal in 2018. He is member of the International Advisory Board of European Journal of Organic Chemistry. He is a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). Recently, he was awarded INSA Teachers Award 2021 by Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi.

Employment

• Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Professor
  2016 - Present
• Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Associate Professor
  2012 - 2016
• Indian Institute of Technology Madras Assistant Professor
  2004 - 2012
• Indiana University Bloomington Post-doctoral Fellow
  2001 - 2004

Education

• Indian Institute of Science Ph.D.
  1996 - 2001
• Indian Institute of Technology Bombay M.Sc.
  1994 - 1996

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