Pijus Kumar Sasmal
Assistant Professor
School of Physical Sciences
Jawaharlal Nehru University
India
Biography
Oct 30th 2015 - Present: Assistant Professor, School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. Jul 2014 - Sep 2015: Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA. Advisor: Prof. Robert K. Prud’homme Nov 2012 - Jun 2014: Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA. Advisor: Prof. KiBum Lee Oct 2010 - Sep 2012: Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Chemistry, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany. Advisor: Prof. Eric Meggers May 2010 - Sep 2010: Research Associate, Dept. of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Advisor: Prof. Akhil R. Chakravarty
Research Interest
Metal-Catalyzed Bioorthogonal Reactions in Living Cells; Nano-Bio Conjugated System in Target Specific Drug Delivery & Imaging Applications; Biosensors
Publications
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Pijus K. Sasmal, Susana Carregal-Romero, Wolfgang J. Parak, and Eric Meggers “Light-Triggered Ruthenium-Catalyzed Allylcarbamate Cleavage in Biological Environments†Organometallics 2012, 31, 5968-5970.
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Pijus K. Sasmal, Susana Carregal-Romero, Craig N. Streu, Zhijie Lin, Kazuhiko Namikawa, Samantha L. Elliott, Reinhard W. Köster, Wolfgang J. Parak, and Eric Meggers “Catalytic Azide Reduction in Biological Environments†ChemBioChem 2012, 13, 1116-1120.
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Pijus K. Sasmal, Craig N. Streu and Eric Meggers “Metal Complex Catalysis in Living Biological Systems†Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 1581-1587.