Vibha Tandona
Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Biography
Vibha Tandon graduated with MSc degree in Organic Chemistry from Gorakhpur University in the year 1986 and obtained PhD in Oligonucleotide Chemistry from Allahabad University in 1991. He subsequently held postdoctoral position at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur prior to joining Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Center for Biomedical Research in Delhi University (DU) in 1998. Later in the year 2009 she moved to Department of Chemistry as Reader and in 2010 Associate Professor at DU only. Recently, she has moved as full professor to SCMM, Jawaharlal Nehru University on lien from University of Delhi. She believes in Translational Research. She had been working at the interface of Chemistry and Biology. Her research interests include Drug design and drug development, Radiation Biology, Topoisomerase targeting, Antisense therapy. She has supervised 16 students for PhD program and mentored around 65 students for summer program. She has been recently appointed as chairperson of SEC on Chemical Sciences of Women Scientist Scheme of DST. She was a Senior Fulbright-Nehru Research Scholar at Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA (2013). She is a recipient of INSA exchange fellowship to visit Essen School of Radiation Biology in Germany (2012) and Royal Society Fellowship to visit Prof. Michael J. Gait at Medical Research Council (MRC) Cambridge, U.K (2007).
Abstract
Abstract : Reformatsky reagent in a dual role: A highly efficient approach towards 1,2-dihydroisoquinolines