Sandeep Verma is an Indian bioorganic chemist and chemical biologist, and a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Sandeep Verma completed his doctoral work from University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago (1994), followed by postdoctoral stints at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, USA, and at Max-Planck-Institute for experimentelle Medizin, Goettingen, Germany. He joined Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, in 1997, where he currently holds the positions of Professor of Chemistry and heads Sandeep Verma's Research Group. His work has been recognized by the B. M. Birla Science Prize (2003), Swarnajayanti Fellowship (2005) in Chemical Sciences, and Bronze Medal (2005) of the Chemical Research Society of India. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2010. He is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), the Indian Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, India, and the Indian National Academy of Engineering. He serves as an Associate Editor of Chemical Communications (RSC, UK) and served on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Cell Chemical Biology, ChemBioChem and Journal of Peptide Science. His research interests include Ordered Peptide Assemblies, Metal-Mediated Systems, New Antimicrobials and Small Molecule Stem Cell Interaction.