Krishnan Ravi Kumar

Biography

Dr. Krishnan Ravikumar is currently a Chief Scientist in the CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology and heads the Centre for X-ray crystallography. He obtained his PhD Degree from the department of Crystallography and Biophysics from University of Madras and carried out his postdoctoral research studies at USA. He worked on medium sized polypeptides and successfully determined the crystal structure of gramicidin pore which laid the basis for understanding the physical nature of ion translocation (Science, 241, 182, 1988). At IICT, his research interests were focused on structure solution of various drugs, drug intermediates and several biological active molecules. He gradually shifted his research focus to pharmaceutical chemistry and worked on specific areas like drug polymorphism, API salt formation, hydrogen bonding, crystallization, and development of X-ray diffraction techniques as reliable analytical tools for pharmaceuticals. He is a research consultant for various pharmaceutical industries. In recognition of his knowledge and skills in devising Analytical Experimental methods using X-ray diffraction which is contributing to furthering drug research and development, he was awarded Ranbaxy research award in Pharmaceutical Sciences (2010). He is also an elected Fellow of AP Akademi of Sciences (2007). He has great interest in teaching, and conducting several courses on X-ray crystallography for undergraduate and postgraduate students in various institutes and colleges.He has published about 389 international and national research articles. He has guided students for their PhD program and project dissertation.

Research Interest

Chemical Crystallography, Drug polymorphism, Pharmaceutical Co-crystallization, structure-property relationships, powder X-ray diffraction, X-ray fluorescence and etc.