Department of BioMolecular Sciences
The University of Mississippi

Dr. Sampad Jana

Posted on: April 3rd, 2018 by dnoonan
Postdoctoral Research Associate
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Education:

  • Ph.D. KU Leuven, Belgium
  • M.S. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
  • B.S. Vidyasagar University, India

Research Interests:

Born and raised in India, Sampad pursued his undergraduate degree in chemistry at Midnapore College where he enjoyed studying chemistry so much that he decided to pursue it further! He completed his Masters from IIT Kanpur. Soon after that, he moved to Belgium to pursue his PhD degree under the supervision of Prof. Wim Dehaen at KU Leuven, where he worked on developing new methods to synthesize tri-substituted 1,2,3-triazoles and studied their biological activities. He subsequently joined the Roy Lab as a postdoctoral scholar where he is investigating new fluorination reaction methods. 

Research Advisor: Sudeshna Roy