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| Dr Reddy (second from left) receives the award from Dilip Shanghvi and Prof Vishwajit Nimgaonkar |
15/2/2018
PUNE: Srinivasa
Reddy, a Pune-based scientist from the organic Chemistry division of the
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research - National Chemical Laboratory
(CSIR - NCL), Pune, has received the prestigious Sun Pharma research award in
the field of pharmaceutical sciences.
Dilip Shanghvi, MD, Sun Pharmaceutical and Prof Vishwajit
Nimgaonkar, university of Pittsburgh, USA, presented the award to Reddy, at a
function held at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. Reddy has been working in
the area of total synthesis of biologically active natural products and
medicinal chemistry using the “silicon incorporation approach”.
The research interests of his group lie in issues related
to application of oriented organic synthesis, in particular total
synthesis of biologically active natural products, medicinal chemistry and crop
protection. This team has been credited with having accomplished total
synthesis of more than 25 natural products with impressive biological
activities.
“Some of our recent achievements include identification of
potential leads, like antibiotic compound based on hunanamycin natural product
for treating food infections, anti-diabetic molecule in collaboration with an
industry partner and anti-TB compound using a strategy called ‘re-purposing
of a drug scaffold,” said Reddy.
A total of two awardees out of four were from CSIR institutes.
In addition to Reddy, Rajan Shankarnarayanan, CSIR - CCMB, Hyderabad (basic
sciences), also was conferred with the award. Vikram Mathews, CMC, Vellore
(medical research) and Prof Ashish Suri, AIIMS, New Delhi (clinical research),
were the others to receive the awards.
With more than 80 scientific publications and 35 patents,
Reddy is one of the most prominent scientists in the city and has already been
honoured with the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar prize in chemical sciences.
Reddy is also a nominated member of the scientific body of Indian Pharmacopoeia,
government of India and was elected as a fellow of the Telangana and
Maharashtra Academies of Sciences in addition to the National Academy of
Sciences, India (NASI).
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