Dr. Thirumoorthy K
School / Centre : School of Advanced Sciences
Department : Chemistry
California State University, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, East Bay, Hayward, CA, USA (July 2009 - June 2010); The Ohio State University-Medical Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, Columbus, OH, USA (July 2010 – June 2013) Pre-doctoral Research Experiences: • Senior Research Fellow, University of Kalyani, Department of Chemistry, West Bengal, India (January 2008 - April 2009) Research: Computational quantum chemical investigations of chiral discrimination and recognition in protein synthesis. • Senior Research Fellow, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Chemistry Group, Pilani, Rajasthan, India (January 2005 - December 2007) Course Instructor and Research: Quantum Chemistry, Chemistry Laboratory courses and Computational quantum chemical studies of chirality driven morphology and recognition in biomimetic monolayers. • Project Assistant, National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Catalysis Division, Pune, India (July 2003 - December 2004) Research: Catalytic reactions on metal surfaces • Project Assistant, Madurai Kamaraj University (MKU), School of Chemistry, Madurai, India (July 2002 - June 2003) Research: Molecular modeling of cardiac proteins • Project Student, Madurai Kamaraj University (MKU), School of Chemistry, Madurai, India (December 2001 - April 2002) Research: Synthetic organic chemistry • Summer Project Fellow, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Department of Chemistry, Kanpur, India (May 2001 - June 2001); Research: Computational Chemistry
Title | Funding Agency |
Discovering substrate-assisted catalysis mechanism of oncometabolite formation in wild type and mutant IDH1/IDH2 enzyme using QM/MM calculations-DST/NSM/R&D_HPC_Applications | DST under National Supercomputing Mission |
Title | Funding Agency |
1. Computational Chemistry Modeling for Delineating the Metabolite’s Chirality Driven Cancer Progression Role: Principal-Investigator (DST/SERB/YSRS) | DST/SERB/YSRS |
Linear, X- And Y-Shaped Borasiloxanes Derived from Ferrocene-Conjugated Boronic Acids: Structural, Electrochemical, Luminescence, Non-Linear Optical and DFT Studies (DST/SERB/EMR) Role: Co-Investigator | DST/SERB/EMR |
3. Aromatic and Y-shaped Heteroaromatic Donor subunits in Borasiloxane Rings/Cages: Structural, Luminescence, Nonlinear Optical and DFT Studies (CSIR/EMR) Role: Co-Investigator | CSIR/EMR |
4. Ferrocene Conjugated Y-Shaped Chromophores as Potential Sensitizers in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells with Innovative Redox Mediators (DST/ Indo-Italian Significant Bilateral Project) Role: Co-Investigator | DST/ Indo-Italian Significant Bilateral Project |
5. Title: Discovering substrate-assisted catalysis mechanism of oncometabolite formation in wild type and mutant IDH1/IDH2 enzyme using QM/MM calculations Role | DST/NSM/R&D-HPC |
Title | Publisher | Published Year |
Chirality and Molecular Interactions: Computational Chemistry Perspective from Biomimetics to Biology, Lap Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany, 2010 (ISBN-13:978- 3-8433-5686-2) | Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany | 2010 |
Chirality and dipolar interactions of membrane mimetic amphiphilic molecules, Structure and Dynamics of Membranous Interfaces, 2008, (ISBN:9780470388495) | Wiley Online Library | 2008 |
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