Dr. Vinod Chaudhari

Dr. Vinod Chaudhari

Senior Principal Scientist

Dr. Vinod Chaudhari is a Medicinal Chemist, received his PhD in Synthetic Organic/Carbohydrate Chemistry from University of Pune, Pune and subsequently moved to University Joseph Furrier (CNRS), Grenoble, France for a Post-Doctoral training on Synthetic Organic Chemistry. He has over 12 years of Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry research experience in Indian Industries. He has worked at Lupin Research Park Pune, Aurigene Discovery Technology Ltd and Zydus Research Centre, prior to joining CSIR-IMTECH Jan 2019. Vinod has experience in leading drug discovery teams that successfully delivered several preclinical/clinical development candidates. He has experience in working with various target classes including GPCRs, Ion channels and Kinases, across different therapeutic areas like Metabolic disorders, Oncology, Respiratory diseases, Inflammation, and Neurosciences.

At CSIR-IMTECH his research group focus will be on new drug discovery in the different therapeutic areas like of Oncology, Antimicrobial resistance, Infectious and Neglected diseases. Currently working on design and synthesis of novel small molecules targeting different targets for the therapeutic area of Respiratory infectious diseases particularly tuberculosis (TB), Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), Virology and Oncology. His research focus is also on total synthesis of biologically active natural/unnatural products and development of green methodologies.

Last Modified Date:- 30-01-2025

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