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ASHIS NANDY

ASHIS NANDY

Scientific Manager
Hyderabad

Summary

Enthusiastic and passionate computational chemist with 7 years of experience as an independent problem solver focused on drug designing strategy for customer service and product development. Ensuring the team's success through hard work, attention to detail and excellent organization skills. Exploring new drug discovery strategies to achieve results.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
12
12
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages

Work History

Scientific Manager

Aragen Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd.
08.2020 - Current
  • Company Overview: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashis-nandy-656bba3a/
  • Designed small molecules targeting GPCR, ion-channels and kinase protein related to various therapeutic targets
  • Developed PROTACs modeling strategy for cancer and neurodegenerative therapy
  • Resolved plasticity of ternary complexes after PROTACs binding
  • Comparative binding mode analysis of agonist, antagonist and partial antagonist of therapeutic targets
  • Developed in-house fragments database for novel molecule designing
  • Scaffold hopping/Ligand-growing for lead compounds
  • Creating compound databases for various projects including their activity, PK-PD data for future analysis
  • Patent data analysis using Python Jupyter Notebook
  • Preparing project proposals for new clients as per their requirement
  • Preparing project reports for each client after project completion
  • Https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashis-nandy-656bba3a/

Senior Associate Scientist

Vyome Therapeutics Ltd.
03.2017 - 07.2020
  • Designed and developed novel broad-spectrum synthetic antibiotic
  • Also designed synthetic antibiotics for mutated strains
  • Continuous improvement of the project through discussion with other teams
  • Designed antibiotics published in 'Nature Biomedical Engineering' in 2022 (IF: 29.23)

Teaching Assistant

NIPER, Kolkata
09.2017 - 11.2017
  • Planned and implemented learning domains for pharmacy carrier aspirants
  • Deliver the topic on QSAR and molecular modeling for drug discovery to the Master's students
  • Improved subjective knowledge in CADD

PhD Scholar

University of Calcutta
09.2013 - 12.2016
  • Molecular modeling techniques used to design and development of novel PPAR modulators
  • Developed predictive QSAR and pharmacophore model for modulation of PPAR subtypes α, γ and δ
  • Identified crucial amino acids for selectivity of PPAR subtypes
  • Published 10 articles in international peer-reviewed journals
  • Participated in national and international seminars to present my research work through oral and poster presentation

Education

PhD - Pharmaceutical and fine chemicals

University of Calcutta
Kolkata, West Bengal
01.2013 - 01.2020

M. Pharm - Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Jadavpur University
Kolkata, West Bengal
01.2011 - 01.2013

B. Pharm - Pharmacy

Dr. B. C. Roy College of Pharmacy and AHS
Durgapur, West Bengal
01.2008 - 01.2011

Skills

PROTACs Modelling

Softwarehandling

  • Schrödinger
  • Discovery Studio
  • Spark
  • DataWarrior
  • Spotfire
  • SARvision

Certificatesandlicenses

Pharmacist License, 2007

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 08/06/84
  • Marital Status: Married

Presentations

  • 49th Annual Convention of Chemist 2012 Conducted by Indian Chemical Society at Bhopal.
  • National Symposium on Recent advance in chemistry and industrial (2014) Conducted by Indian Chemical Society at University of Calcutta, Kolkata-700009.
  • 2nd International Conference on Open Source for computer Aided Translation Medicine at CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh.
  • 23rd Conf. on Current Trends in Computational Chemistry at Centre of Nanotoxicity, Jackson State University, MS, USA, 13.11.2015-14.11.2015.
  • International Conference on Perspectives in Chemometrics, SRM University, 10.02.2015-12.02.2015.
  • 6th international Symposium Current Trends in Drug Discovery and Research, CDRI-Lucknow, 25.02.2016-28.02.2016.
  • National Workshop on Drug Design and Discovery using Schrodinger software 2013 at Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar.

Awards

  • GPAT (Graduate Pharmacy Aptitude Test), AIR - 450
  • Pharmacy Talent Search Examination- 2011, AIR - 20
  • Best Scientific Writing Award, 2016, Indegen

Publications

  • Nandy A, Kar S, Roy K, Linear discriminant analysis for skin sensitization potential of diverse organic chemicals. Molecular Simulation, 39, 2013.
  • Nandy A, Kar S, Roy K, Development of classification and regression based QSAR models and in silico screening of skin sensitization potential of diverse organic chemicals. Molecular Simulation, 40, 261-274, 2014.
  • Nandy A, Kar S, Roy K, Development and validation of regression based QSAR models for quantification of contributions of molecular fragments to skin sensitization potency of diverse organic chemicals. SAR and QSAR in Environmental Research, 24, 1009-1023, 2014.
  • Nandy A, Roy K, Saha A, Structural exploration of PPARγ modulators through pharmacophore mapping, fragment-based design, docking, and molecular dynamics simulation analyses. Medicinal Chemistry Research. 2016:1-2.
  • Karak S, Bhattacharya P, Nandy A, Saha A, De B. Metabolite Profiling and Chemometric Study for Varietal Difference in Piper betle L. Leaf. Current Metabolomics. 2016 Aug 1;4(2):129-40.
  • Nandy A, Roy K, Saha A, Structural Requirement of PPARα Agonist through QSARs and Molecular Simulation Analyses. International Journal of Quantitative Structure-Property Relationships. Volume 2, Issue 1, January-June 2017.
  • Amin S. A, Bhattacharya P, Basak S, Gayen Shovanlal, Nandy A, Saha A. Pharmacoinformatics study of Piperolactam A from Piper betle root as new lead for non-steroidal anti fertility drug development. Computational biology and chemistry, 67(2017) 213-224.
  • De B., Adhikari I., Nandy A,Saha A. and Goswami B.B., In silico modelling of thiazolidine derivatives with antioxidant potency: Models quantify the degree of contribution of molecular fragments towards the free radical scavenging ability. J. Mol. Struct. (2017), 1138, pp.17-26.
  • Bhattacharjee N., Dua, T.K. Khanra, R. Joardar S., Nandy A., Saha A., De Feo V. and Dewanjee S., Protocatechuic Acid, a Phenolic from Sansevieria roxburghiana Leaves, Suppresses Diabetic Cardiomyopathy via Stimulating Glucose Metabolism, Ameliorating Oxidative Stress, and Inhibiting Inflammation. Frontiers in Pharmacology, 8. 2017.
  • Khanra R, Bhattacharjee N, Dua T.K, Nandy A, Saha A, Manna P, Dewanjee S, Kalita J, Taraxerol, a pentacyclic triterpenoid attenuates diabetic nephropathy via stimulating IRS1/PI3K/AKT/AMPK/GLUT4/GSK3β-mediated glucose metabolism and inhibiting inflammatory pathophysiology in type 2 diabetic rats. Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy 94 (2017) 726-741.
  • Nandy A, Roy K, Saha A, A comparative study on selective PPAR modulators through quantitative structure activity relationship, pharmacophore and docking analyses. Current Computer-Aided Drug Design, 2018, 14, 54-67.
  • De B, Adhikari I, Nandy A, Saha A, Goswami B.B, In silico modelling of thiazolidine derivatives with tyrosinase inhibition ability: Application of the models for activity prediction of new compounds. Computational Biology and Chemistry 74 (2018) 105-114.
  • Nandy A, Adhikari I, Application of chemoinformatic tools for design of novel molecules as anti-Parkinsonian agents. Curr. Sig. Trans. Ther. 2018; 13(2): 119-28.
  • Ghosh S, Sinha M, Samanta R, Sadhasivam S, Bhattacharyya A, Nandy A, Saini S, Tandon N, Singh H, Gupta S, Chauhan A. A potent antibiotic-loaded bone-cement implant against staphylococcal bone infections. Nature Biomedical Engineering. 2022 6(10):1180-95.

Disclaimer

I hereby declare that the particulars given above are correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Software

Molecular Docking

Molecular Dynamics

QSAR

Python

R

PROTAC Modelling

Virtual Screening

Drug Designing

Interests

Learning New Topic in Science

Timeline

Scientific Manager

Aragen Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd.
08.2020 - Current

Teaching Assistant

NIPER, Kolkata
09.2017 - 11.2017

Senior Associate Scientist

Vyome Therapeutics Ltd.
03.2017 - 07.2020

PhD Scholar

University of Calcutta
09.2013 - 12.2016

PhD - Pharmaceutical and fine chemicals

University of Calcutta
01.2013 - 01.2020

M. Pharm - Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Jadavpur University
01.2011 - 01.2013

B. Pharm - Pharmacy

Dr. B. C. Roy College of Pharmacy and AHS
01.2008 - 01.2011
ASHIS NANDYScientific Manager