D. Srinivasa Reddy

Dumbala Srinivasa Reddy (born 1971) is an Indian organic and medicinal chemist and a senior scientist at National Chemical Laboratory.[1] He is known for the application of Silicon-switch approach, a management protocol for treating diseases affecting the central nervous system in his researches[2] and is a recipient of the Bronze Medal of the Chemical Research Society of India, NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award[3] and the Drug Research Excellence Award of the Central Drug Research Institute.[4] The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2015, for his contributions to chemical sciences.[5]

D. Srinivasa Reddy
Born (1971-04-10) 10 April 1971
Andhra Pradesh, India
NationalityIndian
Alma mater
Known forSilicon-switch approach
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Doctoral advisor

Biography
National Chemical Laboratory

Born on 10 April 1971 in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, D. Srinivasa Reddy graduated in chemistry in 1991 from Osmania University and completed his master's degree from the same institution in 1993.[6] Enrolling for his doctoral studies under the guidance of Goverdhan Mehta, a noted chemist and former vice chancellor of University of Hyderabad, he moved to Indian Institute of Science when Mehta took up the position as the head of the department of organic chemistry at IISc. His PhD came from Hyderabad University in 2000, and he proceeded to the US where he did his post-doctoral work at the laboratories of Sergey A. Kozmin of the University of Chicago and Jeffrey Aubé of University of Kansas during 2001–03.[7] He started his career in 2003 as a principal scientist at Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories and became a research investigator in 2006 but a year later, he moved to Advinus Therapeutics as the group leader of their Discovery Chemistry research wing. In 2010, he was promoted as the section head; soon after, he left for National Chemical Laboratory where he works as a senior scientist.[8]

Legacy

Reddy's researches have been focused on total organic synthesis of molecules with a view to their applications in agricultural and medicinal uses.[9] He is credited with the total synthesis of over 20 agro-chemicals which includes a mealy bug-attracting sex pheromone that has reported use in crop protection.[3] He has also developed several other products that has potential uses as cell-adhesion inhibitors, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory as well as anti-cancer agents and as insect repellents.[2] He employs the Silicon-switch approach for developing drug strategies for diseases affecting the central nervous system and his work has assisted in the drug discovery for the treatment of some infectious diseases as well as diabetes. His researches have been documented by way of a number of peer-reviewed articles;[10] Google Scholar, an online article repository of scientific articles, has listed 123 of them respectively.[11] He has also applied for 30 patents[6] based on his researches.[12][13][14]

Awards and honours
Dr. D. Srinivasa Reddy of NCL receives the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize ( Group picture) New Delhi, India

Reddy received the Award for Excellence in Drug Research of the Central Drug Research Institute in 2013 and the Scientist of the Year Award of the National Chemical Laboratory the same year.[15] He received three awards in 2015, starting with the NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award,[3] followed by the Bronze Medal of the Chemical Research Society of India.[9] The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards, also in 2015.[16]

See also

References
  1. "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  2. "Research details". National Chemical Laboratory. 2016.
  3. "NCL's D Srinivasa Reddy has been selected for this year's NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee award". Times of India. 29 June 2016.
  4. "CDRI AWard" (PDF). Central Drug Research Institute. 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  5. "View Bhatnagar Awardees". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  6. "Biography" (PDF). National Chemical Laboratory. 2016.
  7. "Reddy on CSIR" (PDF). Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2016.
  8. "Professional Experience". National Chemical Laboratory. 2016.
  9. "Dr. Srinivasa Reddy of CSIR-NCL bags the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize". BioSpectrum. 30 September 2015. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  10. "On ResearchGate". 2016.
  11. "On Google Scholar". Google Scholar. 2016.
  12. "List of Patents". Google patents. 2016.
  13. N. Vasudevan; Gorakhnath R. Jachak; D. Srinivasa Reddy (2015). "Breaking and Making of Rings". European Journal of Organic Chemistry (published December 2015). 34: 7433–7437. doi:10.1002/ejoc.201501048.
  14. B. Seetharamsingh; Remya Ramesh; Santoshkumar S. Dange; Pankaj V. Khairnar; Smita Singhal; Dilip Upadhyay; Sridhar Veeraraghavan; Srikant Viswanadha; Swaroop Vakkalanka; D. Srinivasa Reddy (2015). "Design, Synthesis, and Identification of Silicon Incorporated Oxazolidinone Antibiotics with Improved Brain Exposure". ACS Med. Chem. Lett. (published October 2015). 6 (11): 1105–10. doi:10.1021/acsmedchemlett.5b00213. PMC 4645245. PMID 26617962.
  15. "Awards and Recognition". National Chemical Laboratory. 2016.
  16. "Chemical Sciences". Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2016. Archived from the original on 12 September 2012.
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