MEDCHEM-2021

Virtual Conference on

Emerging infectious diseases and therapeutic strategies

December, 1-4, 2021.
Organized as part of the activity of IITM - AstraZeneca Endowment Program for Promoting Education and Research in Medicinal Chemistry
By Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai – 600 036, INDIA

MEDCHEM 2021 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Patron: Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthy, Director, IIT Madras
Chairperson: Prof. Sanjay Kumar, Head, Chemistry Department, IIT Madras
Conveners: Dr. K.M.Muraleedharan, Dr. Hema Chandra Kotamarthi
Student Volunteers: Pushpkant Sahu, K.V. Akshaya, Deep Kumar Barman,
P.P. Archana, Jais K.

Scientific Advisory Committee:
Prof. Indrapal Singh – Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras
Prof. S. Sankararaman- Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras
Prof. Guhan Jayaraman – Head, Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras
Prof. Ram Viswakarma- Scientific Advisor, CSIR
Prof. Srinivas Reddy- Director, CSIR-IIIM, Jammu
Prof. Srivari Chandrasekhar – Director, CSIR- IICT, Hyderabad

Important
Dates

Last date for registration and submission of abstracts for virtual posters
November 15th, 2021.

Confirmed speakers

Prof. Randeep Guleria	Director, AIIMS-New Delhi.
Prof. Arunaloke Chakrabarti	Department of Medical Microbiology, PGIMER Chandigarh.
Dr. Paul Ramesh Thangaraj	Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic and Heart and Lung Transplant Surgeon, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai.
Dr. Anoop Kumar A.S.	Senior Consultant and Chief, Critical Care Medicine, BMH, Kozhikode.
Prof. Dr. Mark Brönstrup	Helmholtz center for infection research, Germany.
Prof. Raghavan Varadarajan	Molecular Biophysics unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.
Prof. Arnab Chatterjee	Medicinal Chemistry Division, California Institute for Biomedical Research (Calibr), Scripps Research, La Jolla, United States.
Prof. Jason Sello	School of Pharmacy, UCSF, California.
Prof. Srinivas Hotha	Department of Chemical Sciences, IISER-Pune.
Prof. Manidipa Banerjee	Kusuma School of Biosciences, IIT-Delhi.
Prof. Arindam Talukdar	Organic and Medicinal Chemistry division, IICB, Kolkata.
Prof. Jayanta Haldar	JNCASR, Bangalore.
Dr.Niti Kumar	CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow.
Prof. Sanjib Senapati	Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras.
Prof. Rupinder Kaur	CDFD, Hyderabad.
Dr. Rajan Ravichandran	Department of Nephrology, MIOT International, Chennai.
Prof. Vani Janakiraman	Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras.
Dr. Kirandeep Samby	Medicines for Malaria Venture, UK.
Dr. Sidharth Chopra	Division of Microbiology, CDRI, Lucknow
Dr. Ishu Saraogi	Department of Chemistry, IISER Bhopal

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