Dr. Ravindra Kumar
Principal Investigator
Email: ravindra.kumar1@cdri.res.in
Principal Scientist and Associate Professor (AcSIR)
Medicinal and Process Chemistry Division,
CSIR-CDRI, Lucknow, U.P., India
Present Members
Subrata Roy
Date of joining: 01, June 2023
CSIR -Senior Research Fellow
M.S.(Pharm.) in Medicinal Chemistry
National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER)-Mohali, Panjab, India
Research Area: “Synthesis of medicinally important privilege heterocycles"
Akhilesh Yadav
Date of joining: 13, June 2023
UGC- Senior Research Fellow
M.Sc. (Chemistry)
University of Allahabad, U.P. India
Research Area: “Green Synthesis of Privileged Heterocycles"
Varun Kumar
Date of joining: 22, July 2024
CSIR - Junior Research Fellow
M.Sc. (Organic Chemistry)
Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, U.P. India
Research Area: “Stereoselective desymmetrization of cyclohexadienone for ring fused heterocycles."
Sagar Sinha
Date of joining: 16, January 2025
Project Technical Support-III
M.Sc. (Medicinal Chemistry)
Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, Punjab, India
Research Area: “Discovery and development of therapeutic interventions against multi-drug-resistant bacterial pathogen”
Aniket Pradeep Maskar
Date of joining: 03, March 2025
Project Associate - I
M.Sc. (Organic Chemistry), Mumbai University, Mumbai, India
Research Area: “Identification of lead optimized candidate for dengue"
Karan Kumar Sahu
Date of joining: 25, June 2025
Project Technical Support-III
M.Sc. (Chemistry), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Palakkad), Kerala, India
Research Area: “Targeting Bile Acid Receptor TGR5 for the treatment of Ischemic Cerebral Stoke Associated Motor & Cognitive Deficits"
Farmeena Shafaq
Date of joining: 14, July 2025
CSIR -Junior Research Fellow
M.Sc. (Organic Chemistry)
Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, U.P. India
Research Area: “Synthesis of Boron-based heterocycles"
Kaushindra Singh
Date of joining: 14, July 2025
CSIR -Junior Research Fellow
M.Sc. (Organic Chemistry)
Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, U.P. India
Research Area: “Synthesis of novel heterocyclic compound of biological relivance"
Deepak Kumar Rastogi
Date of joining: 14, July 2025
UGC - Junior Research Fellow
M.Sc. (Organic Chemistry)
Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, U.P. India
Research Area: “Exploration on dearomatization–aromatization strategy to synthesise novel heterocyclic scaffold"
Gautam Kumar Pandey
Date of joining: 27 Feb, 2026
Project Associate- 1
M.S Pharm (Pharmaceutical Analysis), NIPER Hajipur, India
Research Area: “A comprehensive Approach to Address Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)"
Anika Rastogi
Date of joining: 27 Feb, 2026
M.Sc. (Inorganic Chemistry)
Rajasthan University, Jaipur. India
Research Area: “Stereoselective Synthesis of Diverse Sp3-rich Polycyclic Scaffolds : Generation of High Valued New Molecular Entities for GPCR Modulator"
Project Associate- 1
Past Members
Shreya Sharma
Project-Associate
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology (NIT), Jalandhar, Panjab, India
Farhan
Master trainee
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Meenakshi Haridas
CIPLA Trainee
(Dec 2025-March 2026)
Pondicherry University, India
Roopa Prabhu
Pooja Parteti
Master trainee
(Jan 2025-July 2025)
IEHE Bhopal, India
Prashant D. Dewale
Project Associate - I
(Oct 2024-Oct 2025)
NIT Warnagal, India
Vedant Pandey
Project Associate - I
(Sep 2025 - Dec 2025 )
IIT Roorkee, India
Ms. Nikita Chuahan
Project Associate - I
(May 2025-March 2026)
University of Lucknow, India
Arsh Khan
Master trainee
(Jan 2026-May 2026)
Integral University, Lucknow, India