Varun Kumar
Associate director Medicinal Chemistry, Syngene International Limited
- Role
- Associate Director at Syngene International Limited
- Location
- Hyderabad, TG, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Varun Kumar
Medicinal chemist with 10 year experience in pre-clinical drug discovery, especially in Oncology. Involved in different drug discovery projects with a focus to move the programs to pre-clinical stage through lead identification and optimization. Well experienced in establishing SAR trends, designing compounds with better potency and physio-chemical properties either via library synthesis or solution phase synthesis and their analysis. Managing a team of in-house chemists to achieve milestone of outsourcing projectsSpecialties: Synthetic Organic Chemistry encompassing Asymmetric synthesis, Heterocyclic chemistry, Process chemistry, Medicinal chemistry with CADD
Experience
Associate Director
Jan 2026 — Present
Education
National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Organic/Medicinal chemistry
2007 — 2012
Kurukshetra University
M.Sc, Organic chemistry
2004 — 2006
Guru Nanak Khalsa College, Yamunanagar
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Non-Medical
2001 — 2004
Skills
- Well Versed with Structural Elucidation by Various Spectroscopic Techniques
- Pharmacology
- Organic Chemistry
- Gaussian 03
- Chromatography
- Structure Elucidation
- Molecular Modeling
- Chem Office 11.0, Autodock 4.2 , Gaussian 03w
- Purification
- Lc-Ms
- Scifinder
- Interact Effectively Within a Multidisciplinary Team of Colleagues
- Chemistry
- Uv/Vis
- Drug Design
- Library Synthesis (Combinatorial Synthesis)
- Experience in Handling Air Sensitive, Pyrophoric and Hazardous Reagents
- Endnote, Sybyl (Tripos), Bruker Topspin, Acd.
- Synthetic Organic Chemistry
- Scientific Data Retrieval by Scifinder, Reaxys and Beilstein,
- Drug Discovery
- Organic Synthesis
- Expert in Purification of Organic Compounds by Different Techniques
- Drug Delivery
- Nmr
- Pharmaceutical Research
- Medicinal Chemistry
- Heterocyclic Chemistry
- Synthesis of Chiral Building Blocks and Drug Intermediates
- Characterization
- Organic Synthesis Encompassing Asymmetric Synthesis
- Spectroscopy
- Methodology Development and Process Chemistry
- Hplc
- Multi Step Synthesis of Organic Molecules
- 1d and 2d Nmr Techniques (Dept-135, Cosy, Noesy, Hsqc, Hmbc, Roesy Etc.)
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