Dr. Tabrez Khan
Assistant Professor
Department of Basic Sciences
IIT-BBS Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar
India
Biography
Education • Ph. D. (Org. Chem.), University of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (2003-2009). • M. Sc. (Org. Chem.), University of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (2001-2003). • B. Sc. (Chem.), K. J. Somaiya College of Science, Arts & Commerce, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (1998-2001). Research Experience • Research Investigator- Medicinal Chemistry at BBRC (Biocon-BMS R&D Centre, Syngene Intl. Ltd), Bangalore, India, Sept. 2013- April 2014. • Postdoctoral Researcher at The Scripps Research Institute, CA, USA, 2012-2013. • Postdoctoral Researcher at Hyderabad Central University, India, 2010-2012. • Postdoctoral Researcher at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2009-2010. • Research Associate at GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals, Maharashtra, India, 2008- 2009. • Doctoral Research at University of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, 2003-2009 Dissertation title: “Syntheses of chemoionophores and related system. Effect of Metal ions on Electronic and Optical propertiesâ€. Honors & Awards • Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral fellowship from the United States-India Education Foundation (USIEF), New Delhi, India (2012-2013). • Dr. D. S. Kothari Postdoctoral fellowship from the University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi, India (2009-2012). • Best Poster Award at Trombay Symposium for Radiation and Photochemistry from the Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India (2008). • Best Talk Award at Ph.D Student Symposium from the Royal Society of ChemistryWest India Section (2007). • Junior & Senior Research Fellowship Award from the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India (2004-2008). • Graduate Aptitude Test In Engineering (GATE) Award from the Indian Institute of Technology, India (2004). • Maharashtra State level Eligibility for Lectureship Award from the University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi, India (2003).
Research Interest
Development of Novel Synthetic Methodology, Target & Diversity Oriented Synthesis Of Bioctive And Aesthetically Pleasing Natural Products.
Publications
-
"Total Synthesis and Structural Revision of Antibiotic CJ-16,264" K. C. Nicolaou, Akshay A. Shah, Henry Korman, Tabrez Khan, Lei Shi, Wisuttaya Worawalai, Emmanuel A. Theodorakis, Angew.Chem. Int.Ed. 2015, 54,9203 –9208
-
“An Improved Synthesis of Natural Product Inspired Chromenopyrrolizines and Chromenoindolizines Scaffolds: Rapid Access to the Diverse Pyrrolizine Analogs of Aza-Medicarpin and Tetracyclic Isolamellarin Core through a General Base and Metal free Strategy†Tabrez Khan, Virendra Kumar, Oindreela Das, Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. 2016, 89, 1331.
-
Synthetic studies en route to the first total synthesis of a naturally occurring quinone from Acorus gramineus, iso-merrilliaquinone, iso-magnoshininand 2-epi-3,4-dihydro magnoshinin; Dileep Kumar, Oindreela Das, Manvendra Singh Kaurav, Tabrez Khan, RSC Advances. 2017, 7, 36844-36851.
