Bioorganic Chemistry Laboratory



Dr. Lal Mohan Kundu


Professor
Department of Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Assam, India, 781039.
: lmkundu@iitg.ac.in
:  +91 361 2582326
: +91 361 2582349

 General Informations

Professional Experience:

  1. June 2021-Present: Professor, IIT Guwahati, India
  2. Feb 2015-June 2021: Associate Professor, IIT Guwahati, India
  3. May 2009-Feb. 2015: Assistant Professor, IIT Guwahati, India
  4. Nov. 2006-Feb. 2009: Postdoctoral researcher, RIKEN, Wako, Japan with Prof. Mizuo Maeda
  5. June 2005-July 2006: Postdoctoral fellow, University of Alberta, Canada with Prof. Glen R. Loppnow

Education:

  1. Sept. 2000-Feb. 2005: PhD thesis, LMU Munich, Germany, with Prof. Thomas Carell Title: “Investigation of UVC Induced DNA Damage Formation and Photolyase Catalyzed Repair of Cyclobutane Pyrimidine Dimers”
  2. 1998-2000: M.Sc. in chemistry, IIT Kharagpur, India
  3. 1995-1998: B.Sc. (Honors) in chemistry, RKMRC Narendrapur, Calcutta University

 Area of Research


Synthetic methodologies; Modified nucleobases and nucleic acids; Artificial base-pairing, Peptide synthesis, in-situ self-cyclization of modified peptides for biological evaluations; Peptide-drug conjugates and nanoparticles
Modified biopolymers and biomaterials for targeted delivery of antitumor agents,Detection of tumor cells