Pandey, Kamal

Year of Graduation: 2023
Research Lab: Professor James Cook
Major Area of Focus: Organic Synthesis, Natural products chemistry, total synthesis of indole alkaloids
Minor Area of Focus: Medicinal Chemistry

Dissertation: Part I Enantiospecific Total Synthesis of Unnatural Enantiomers of C-19 Methylated Sarpagine/Macroline/Ajmaline-Type Biologically Active Indole Alkaloids via the Pictet-Spengler Reaction/Dieckmann Cyclization Process. Part II Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of Novel Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid Type A (GABAA) Receptor Ligands for the Treatment of Neurological Disorders Including Epilepsy, Depression, Anxiety, Pain and the Synthesis of Back Up Compounds for the Clinically Progressing KRM-II-81 for the Treatment of Pharmacoresistant Epilepsy and Dravet Syndrome

Publications:  

Kamal P. Pandey, Md Zubair Ahmed Khan, Lalit K. Golani, Prithu Mondal, Md Yeunus Mian, Farjana Rashid, V. V. N. Phani Babu Tiruveedhula, Daniel E. Knutson, Dishary Sharmin, Taukir Ahmed, Sepideh Rezvanian, Nicolas M. Zahn, Leggy A. Arnold, Jeffrey M. Witkin and James M. Cook: ‘Design, synthesis and characterization of novel gamma‑aminobutyric acid type A receptor ligands’; Arkivoc;, 2020, VII, 242-256