Sandeep Verma
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{{Short description|Indian scientist and professor (born 1966)}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1966|6|24}}
| birth_place = Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
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| nationality = Indian
| fields = {{ublist | Bioorganic chemistry }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | Banaras Hindu University | IIT Kanpur | IISER, Bhopal }}
| alma_mater = {{ublist | University of Illinois Medical Center | Johns Hopkins University | Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine }}
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| known_for = Studies on Ordered Peptide Assemblies, Metal-Mediated Systems, New Antimicrobials, and Small Molecule Stem Cell Interaction.
| awards = {{ublist | 2003 B. M. Birla Science Prize | 2005 Swarnajayanti Fellowship in Chemical Sciences | 2005 CRSI Bronze Medal | 2010 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | 2017 CRSI Silver Medal | 2019 Goyal Prize in Chemical Sciences}}
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Sandeep Verma (born 1966) is an Indian bioorganic chemist and chemical biologist, and a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK).{{Cite web |url=https://globalprofessorrank.com/professors/sandeep-verma |title=Professor, IIT Kanpur |date=2016 |publisher=Global Professor Rank}} At IITK, he heads Sandeep Verma's Research Group{{Cite web |url=https://www.iitk.ac.in/new/sandeep-verma |title=Sandeep Verma's Research Group}} in the areas of ordered peptide assemblies, metal-mediated nanoscale systems, programmable soft matter for neuronal regeneration, novel antimicrobials, and small molecule-stem cell modulation.{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=131 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2016 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=12 November 2016}} He is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), the Indian Academy of Sciences,{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Verma,_Prof._Sandeep |title=Fellow profile |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}} the National Academy of Sciences, India,{{Cite web |url=http://nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=V |title=NASI fellows |date=2016 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India}} and the Indian National Academy of Engineering. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2010, for his contributions to Chemical Sciences.{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx | title=View Bhatnagar Awardees | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | accessdate=12 November 2016}}
Biography
Born on 24 June 1966, in Kanpur in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Sandeep Verma did his early schooling in Varanasi and completed his Master's degree at Banaras Hindu University in 1989.{{Cite web |url=http://www.itbhuglobal.org/chronicle/archives/2010/09/professor_sande.php |title=Professor Sandeep Verma of IIT-Kanpur and BHU alumnus receives Bhatnagar Prize |date=2016 |publisher=IIT-BHU Chronicle}} Subsequently, he secured a PhD from the University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago in 1994 and he did his post-doctoral work, first at Johns Hopkins University and later at the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine.{{Cite web |url=http://www.iitk.ac.in/nanoscience/coord.html |title=Thematic Unit of Excellence |date=2016 |publisher=IIT Kanpur}} On his return to India in 1997, he joined the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur as an Assistant Professor and is currently working as a Professor.{{Cite web |url=http://www.iitk.ac.in/new/sandeep-verma |title=Faculty profile |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur}}
Research Profile
Verma's researches may broadly be classified into four segments: Ordered Peptide Assemblies,{{Cite journal |title=Peptide-based Synthetic Design, Construction and Morphology of Soft Structures|year=2012|pmid=23394277|last1=Mondal|first1=S.|last2=Barman|first2=A. K.|last3=Verma|first3=S.|journal=CHIMIA|volume=66|issue=12|pages=930–5|doi=10.2533/chimia.2012.930|doi-access=free}} Metal-Mediated Systems,{{Cite journal |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28393940/ |title=Directed Adenine Functionalization for Creating Complex Architectures for Material and Biological Applications|year=2017|pmid=28393940|last1=Mohapatra|first1=B.|last2=Verma|first2=S.|journal=Chemical Communications|volume=53|issue=35|pages=4748–4758|doi=10.1039/c7cc00222j}} New Antimicrobials{{Cite journal |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31276129/ |title=A Novel Molecular Scaffold Resensitizes Multidrug-Resistant S. Aureus to Fluoroquinolones|year=2019|pmid=31276129|last1=Panjla|first1=A.|last2=Kaul|first2=G.|last3=Shukla|first3=M.|last4=Tripathi|first4=S.|last5=Nair|first5=N. N.|last6=Chopra|first6=S.|last7=Verma|first7=S.|journal=Chemical Communications|volume=55|issue=59|pages=8599–8602|doi=10.1039/c9cc03001h|s2cid=206141691 }} and Small Molecule Stem Cell Interaction.{{Cite journal |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32048649/ |title=Tripeptide-induced Modulation of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Biomechanics Stimulates Proliferation and Wound Healing|year=2020|pmid=32048649|last1=Sharma|first1=S.|last2=Kulkarni|first2=C.|last3=Kulkarni|first3=M. M.|last4=Ali|first4=R.|last5=Porwal|first5=K.|last6=Chattopadhyay|first6=N.|last7=Tewari|first7=D.|last8=Verma|first8=S.|journal=Chemical Communications|volume=56|issue=20|pages=3043–3046|doi=10.1039/c9cc10043a|s2cid=211084849 }} He is credited with the synthesis of enzyme mimics using metal-mediated systems and his group is involved in developing bio-inspired soft matter and protocols for using biological building blocks as diagnostic tools for diseases.{{Cite journal |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31420935/ |title=Ultrasensitive NO X Detection in Simulated Exhaled Air: Enhanced Sensing via Alumina Modification of In-Situ Grown WO 3 Nanoblocks|year=2019|pmid=31420935|last1=Alam|first1=S.|last2=Ansari|first2=M. S.|last3=Banik|first3=A.|last4=Ali|first4=R.|last5=Verma|first5=S.|last6=Qureshi|first6=M.|journal=Chemistry: An Asian Journal|volume=14|issue=24|pages=4673–4680|doi=10.1002/asia.201900699|s2cid=201041534 }}{{Cite journal |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32323673/ |title=Purine-blended Nanofiber Woven Flexible Nanomats for SERS-based Analyte Detection|year=2020|pmid=32323673|last1=Saravanan|first1=R. K.|last2=Naqvi|first2=T. K.|last3=Patil|first3=S.|last4=Dwivedi|first4=P. K.|last5=Verma|first5=S.|journal=Chemical Communications|volume=56|issue=43|pages=5795–5798|doi=10.1039/d0cc00648c|s2cid=216083483 }} His research has been documented in a number of peer-reviewed articles, reviews and book chapters. He serves as an Associate Editor of Chemical Communications (RSC, UK){{Cite web |url=https://blogs.rsc.org/cc/2017/07/25/welcome-sandeep-verma-new-chemcomm-associate-editor/ |title=A warm welcome to Sandeep Verma, our new ChemComm Associate Editor}} and served on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Cell Chemical Biology,{{Cite web |url=https://www.cell.com/cell-chemical-biology/editorial-board |title=Editorial Board: Cell Chemical Biology}} ChemBioChem{{Cite web |url=https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/14397633/editorial-board |title=ChemBioChem: Editorial Board|doi=10.1002/(ISSN)1439-7633 }} and Journal of Peptide Science.{{Cite web |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/10991387/homepage/editorialboard.html |title=Journal of Peptide Science: Editorial Board|doi=10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1387 }}
Awards and honours
Verma won the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund Award, P. M. Bhargava Medal and BHU Vice Chancellor's Gold Medal for academic excellence in master's degree examination in 1989, and the J. Watumull Endowed Award of the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1993. He won the B. M. Birla Science Prize (2003),{{Cite web |url=http://www.birlasciencecentre.org/awards/birlaSciencePrizes/ |title=B. M. Birla Science Prize |date=2016 |publisher=B. M. Birla Science Centre |access-date=5 December 2016 |archive-date=28 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128175901/http://www.birlasciencecentre.org/awards/birlaSciencePrizes/ |url-status=dead }} Swarnajayanti Fellowship (2005) in Chemical Sciences,{{Cite web |url=https://www.serc-dst.org/swarnajayanti.html |title=Swarnajayanti Fellowships}} 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.{{cite web | url=http://www.csir.res.in/External/Heads/career/award/BPRIZE/CHEMICAL_SCIENCES.htm | title=Chemical Sciences | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=2016 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120912012851/http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/career/award/BPRIZE/CHEMICAL_SCIENCES.htm | archivedate=12 September 2012 | df=dmy-all }}
He is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), Indian Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, India, the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) and a Senior Fellow of the Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, Germany.{{Cite web |url=https://www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskolleg/news/current-news/single-news/Second-stay-of-Sandeep-Verma-at-the-Zukunftskolleg/ |title=Second stay of Sandeep Verma at the Zukunftskolleg}} He was awarded the Silver Medal (2017) of the Chemical Research Society of India,{{Cite web |url=https://chm.iiserb.ac.in/conf/crsi/speakers.php |title=23rd CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry}} National Prize for Research on Interfaces between Chemistry and Biology (2017),{{Cite news |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/research-needs-to-be-multi-disciplinary-award-winning-duo/articleshow/59010729.cms |title=Research needs to be multi-disciplinary: Award-winning duo, Times of India|website=The Times of India |date=6 June 2017 }} MRSI-ICSC Superconductivity & Materials Science Annual Prize (2018), Materials Research Society of India,{{Cite web |url=https://www.mrsi.org.in/awardshonours.php |title=MRSI Awards and Honours}} Goyal Prize (2019) in Chemical Sciences,{{Cite web |url=https://www.bhaskar.com/harayana/kurukshetra/news/haryana-news-pro-lakshmikantam-prof-sandeep-verma-and-prof-goyal-award-for-umesh-anniversary-024023-3667150.html |title=Dainik Bhaskar Jan 15, 2019}} the Distinguished Alumnus Award (2020), Banaras Hindu University,{{cite tweet |user=VCofficeBHU |number=1218077536678182915 |date=17 January 2020 |title=Prof. Sandeep Verma, Secretary, SERB, New Delhi, receiving the #BHU Distinguished Alumnus Award. @bhupro}} and more recently, the Society of Materials Chemistry Gold Medal - 2022, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai.
Science Governance
Sandeep Verma served as the Secretary of the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) from April 2019 till October 2022.{{Cite web |title=Secretary's Page: Science and Engineering Research Board |url=http://serb.gov.in/secretary.php#:~:text=Sandeep%20Verma%20took%20charge%20as,Prof. |access-date=18 May 2022 |website=serb.gov.in}}
See also
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