Ashabha Lansakara, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Greater Boston

• Trained new team members by relaying information on company procedures and safety requirements.• Attended staff development workshops and applied information from those events into daily activities.• Reviewed daily requirements and forecasts and delegated work for optimal coverage.• Minimized resource and time losses by addressing employee or production issue directly and implementing timely solutions.

Greater Boston

• Development, validation, and optimization of synthetic routes for isotopically labeled complex small molecules towards various applications.• Mentoring of new scientists to maintain a safe, productive & collaborative work environment.• Execution of day-to-day non-laboratory operations such as data review, product release and analysis/troubleshooting of qc testing results.

Greater Boston Area

• Ability to multi-task and deliver on multiple projects and targets simultaneously.• Synthesis and delivery of challenging isotopically labeled scaffolds such as pyridines, thiazoles, triazoles, and amino acids…. etc.• Multiple successful R&D projects and process developments resulting in more than 20 new catalog items to the CIL inventory.

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

• Worked on multiple research projects • Experienced in successfully scaling up synthetic experiments (from mg to kilo scale) • Experienced in handling large instruments and glassware for manufacturing of drug intermediates in kilo scale: Glass reactors, Falling film still, R-220 rotary evaporators, Large centrifuges, Workup vessels• Skilled in handling various hazardous chemicals in kilo scale with proper PPEs according to OSHA standards• Ability to perform sophisticated organic chemistry experimental techniques such as vacuum/fractional distillation, deaeration, and recrystallization of compounds• Adept at compound characterization methods and data interpretation: High performance liquid chromatography coupled with UV visible detector (HPLC-UV), Gas chromatography coupled with flame ionization detector (GC-FID), 1-D and 2-D Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (variable temperature NMR, 1H, 13C, 31P, 19F)

Manhattan, Kansas

• Synthesis of Chalcone analogues for their evaluation as potential anti-cancer agents• Studies in to construction of novel compounds of interest (NCI) along the total synthesis of Brocazine natural products for their potential biological properties

Iowa City, Iowa Area

• Dearomatization of pyridine via synthesis of anhydrobase intermediates• Intramolecular aldol condensations of 1- and 2-alkyl imidazoles to afford novel heterocyclic molecular frameworks• Development of a Brønsted acid catalyzed aldol condensation for 2- and 4-alkyl pyridines• Successful synthesis of a bis(piperidine) analogue of xestoproxamine C through a diastereoselective hydrogenation of an anhydrobase intermediate• Development of a successful ring closing metathesis (RCM) procedure to construct the macrocyclic rings present in bis(piperidine) alkaloids• Studies in to homologation of substituted pyridines to afford aminoethylpyridines • Enzyme catalyzed desymmetrization of 1,3-diols to afford enatio-enriched precursors to be used in the total synthesis of xestoproxamine C

Iowa City, Iowa Area

• Worked as a teaching assistant in freshmen chemistry laboratories and sophomore organic chemistry discussion sessions• Evaluated weekly assignments (Lab note books, Lab reports, Quizzes. Problem sets.. etc.)• Delivered the introductory lecture each week and demonstrated sample experiments• Received positive feedback from students during course evaluations• Continuously supported a broadly diverse student body from various disciplines, especially during help sessions

Sri Lanka

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Organic Chemistry

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Chemistry, Second Class Upper Division