About Me

Ramanathan Gurunath obtained his Ph.D from the Indian Institute of Science in 1994. After doing postdocs at MIT and the Karolinska Institute, Sweden he joined the department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur in 2000. For a short while (2003-2005) he was a joint faculty in the department of Chemistry and the department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering at IIT Kanpur.

 

Supervision of Bachelor/Master thesis

Number of students graduated since becoming professor
MSc. students 4; M. Tech students 0; Ph. D. - 8 (Anju Duley, Chetan Arya, Garima Tripathi, Archana Kumari, Ashish Singh, Nazia Siddiqui, Kalpana Tomar & Keerti Mishra)

 

PhD Supervision:

There are 9 students in the lab currently.

 

 

Knowledge Dissemination

I curated the wikipages for an MHRD project on ICT in education for Chemistry and Physics.  I gave 2 courses in this.

 

Funding

List of R&D projects with details of funding, duration, title, start year. Total new funding received since becoming professor -2. 75 crores out of which 1.69 crores is from government sources and more than a crore is from Industry!

 

1. 3125013 UNILEVER (1 year) as PI Design, Synthesis If Peptide: Nucleic Acid Molecules To Target Gene Expression (2013).

2. 4873500 UNILEVER (1.5 years) as PI Designer Peptide:Nucleic Acid(Pna)And Peptide Synthesis And Glycosylation Analysis Towards Understanding Links Between Molecular Structure And Function (2015).

3. 2016180 DST (2 years) co-PI Synthesis Of 12-Crown-4-Ether Containing Peptide Analogues That Induces Cell Cycle Arrest And Apoptosis In Rat Egg Cells Invitro: A Search Of Potential Candidate As Contraceptive Pills (2016).

4. 2640250 UNILEVER (1 year) as PI Structural Elucidation Of Soluble Version Human Tyrosinase Through Cryo-lectron Microscopy (2017).

5. 14919840 UGC (3 years) as PI Mixed Explosives Biodegradation For Remediation Of Contaminated Ground Water (2018).

 

Consultancy

All Unilever projects listed above are consultancy mode projects.

 

Peer Recognition

Awards, Fellowships, other recognitions

Platinum Jubilee Lecture in Environmental sciences at the Indian Science congress- 2017, in Mysore.

 

Contributions to the institute

Professor in charge P. K. Kelkar library since February 2015.  Implemented the library vision plan.  Reduced the power requirement of the P. K. Kelkar Library.  Currently involved in implementation of RFID tagging of books and journals in the library.

 

Contributions outside the Institute

1. Executive member, Indian peptide society. (re-elected in 2015 for another term of 3 years)

2. Chairman, Board of Governors, Institute of Engineering Technology, Agra (since 2018 for 3 years).

3. Member, Board of studies in Chemistry, DayalBagh educational trust, Agra. (since 2016)

4. Member, DBT task force on energy bioscience fellowships (since 2015).

5. Member, DST Early Career Research Award & National Post-Doctoral Fellowship Scheme (since 2018).