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About Dr. Venkatesh V

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Dr. Venkatesh V

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemistry

IIT Roorkee, Uttarakhand

Email: venkatesh.v@cy.iitr.ac.in

Academic and Professional details

Assistant  Professor           Department of Chemistry

   (2019-Till date)               Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

DST-INSPIRE faculty       Supervisor: Prof. G. Mugesh

   (2017-2019)                      Inorganic and Physical Chemistry (IPC)

                                             Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Post-Doctoral Fellow         Supervisor: Professor Peter J Sadler

   (2015-2017)                      Department of Chemistry

                                             The University of Warwick, UK

        Ph.D.                           Supervisor: Professor Sandeep Verma

  (2009 - 2014)                     Department of Chemistry

                                             Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur,

                                             Kanpur-208016, India

Awards / Fellowships

      2017                  DST-INSPIRE faculty award from DST,   

                                Government of India

 

  2015- 2017            Newton International Fellowship awarded by

                                The Royal Society and The British Academy  

 

      2014                  Eli Lilly and Company Asia Outstanding Thesis Award

      2008                  National Eligibility Test, University Grants Commission,

                                India (JRF-chemical sciences).

Representative Publications

1)  N. Singh, K. P. Raul, A. Poulose, G. Mugesh* and V. Venkatesh*. " Highly Stable Pyrimidine Based       

      Luminescent Copper Nanoclusters with Superoxide Dismutase Mimetic and Nitric Oxide Releasing                      Activity" ACS Appl. Bio Mater., 2020, 3, 7454−7461.

2)  K. T. Prakash, N. Singh and V. Venkatesh* " Synthesis of novel luminescent copper nanoclusters with

     substituent driven self-assembly and aggregation induced emission (AIE)"

     Chem. Comm., 2019, 55, 322−355.

3)  V. Venkatesh, N. K. Mishra, I. R. Canelón, R. R. Vernooij, H. Shi, J. P. C. Coverdale, A. Habtemariam, 

      S. Verma, and P. J. Sadler. “Supramolecular Photoactivatable Anticancer Hydrogels” J. Am. Chem.  

      Soc., 2017,139, 5656–5659.

4)  V. Venkatesh, R. B.-Martin, C. J. Wedge, I. R. -Canelon, C. S.-Cano,  J. Song, J. P. C. Coverdale,  P. 

     Zhang,  G. J. Clarkson, A. Habtemariam,  S.W. Magennis,  R. J. Deeth and P. J. Sadler. “Mitochondria- 

     targeted spin-labelled luminescent iridium anticancer complexes” Chem. Sci. 2017, 8271-8278.

5)  S. Kandambeth, V. Venkatesh, D. B. Shinde, S. Kumari, A. Halder, S. Verma, R. Banerjee. “Self-

     templated chemically stable hollow spherical covalent organic framework”  Nature Commun., 2015, 6,

     Article No. 6786.

6)  Purine-Stabilized Green Fluorescent Gold Nanoclusters for Cell Nuclei Imaging Applications

     V. Venkatesh, A. Shukla, S. Sivakumar, and S. Verma

     ACS Appl.Mater.Interfaces., 2014, 6, 2185–2191.   

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