Rahul S. Khupse
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Findlay
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Khupse is a medicinal chemist involved in teaching professional pharmacy courses to fourth and fifth year Pharm D students. He has several years of hand-on-experience in designing and synthesis of small molecules, both as an independent researcher and as a graduate student over last 15 years. After getting pharmacy degree from India, he joined University of Toledo for his PhD. During graduate studies he has accomplished the first total syntheses of anticancer natural products called as Glyceollins and Xanthohumol. Later, as a research chemist in Lexington pharmaceuticals LLC. he worked on syntheses of several small molecules including carbohydrates and heterocyclics. This was followed by two years of post-doctoral work at Center for Drug Design and Development, Toledo where he was as a group leader for 14-step synthesis of several grams of an anti-cancer compounds for animal studies.
Research Interest
Research in area of cancer therapies.
