• Synthetic organic and medicinal chemist.• Expertise in structure-based drug design and lead optimization by SAR as well as drug development by in-vitro and in-vivo PK-ADME, and cytotoxicity studies.• Experienced in designing and executing solution and solid phase multi-step synthesis, optimizing and scaling-up of synthetic methods.• Highly skilled in compound separation and purification by traditional and modern methods such as crystallization, distillation, flash chromatography, and prep-HPLC.• Expertise in analyzing and identifying desired products and trace contaminants by modern analytical techniques such as NMR, FT-IR, GC/MS, HPLC, LC-MS, LC-MS/MS, and HRMS.• Adept in softwares such as SciFinder Scholar, Reaxys, ACD Lab, MestReNova, ChemDraw, SigmaPlot, Analyst, MultiQuant, ChemStation, PyMOL, and Phoenix WinNonLin.• Experienced in writing both peer reviewed and patent publications.• Demonstrated public interaction skill by presentations in scientific and non-scientific meetings.