Dr Prashant Kapadnis Senior Scientist II, Early Discovery
My name is Prashant Kapadnis, I did my M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry from University of Pune, India. I worked as a chemist in India in a pharma company, Cadila Healthcare Ltd (Zydus Research Centre) before moving to UK In 2010, I received my PhD degree in organic chemistry from the University of Cambridge, where I worked on developing 5-HT1b antagonists and bacterial quorum sensing modulators. I did my postdoctoral research at Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, and Imperial College London, where I worked on designing non-natural amino acids and generating orthogonal tRNA synthetase and tRNA pair through directed evolution methods, and on preparing fluorophore labelled molecular receptors. In 2014 I joint Antikor Biopharma Ltd where I worked on antibody drug conjugates (ADCs). In 2017, I joined Charles River Laboratories (CRL), where I am working as a Senior Scientist-II in small molecule drug discovery area.
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Professor Robert Mokaya OBE FRS FRSC University of Nottingham
Robert Mokaya received his B.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of Nairobi in 1988 and was awarded his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1992. Following a Research Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was awarded an EPSRC Advanced Fellowship in 1996. Mokaya joined the School of Chemistry at The University of Nottingham as a lecturer in Materials Chemistry in 2000 where he is now Professor of Materials Chemistry and Pro-Vice-Chancellor Global Engagement. He is a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holder (2017- 2022). He was awarded OBE in 2022 for services to the Chemical Sciences, and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2023. His research interests are on the design, synthesis and characterisation of new forms of sustainable porous materials and the study of their structure-property relations. The research involves exploring fundamentally new synthesis methods that are simpler, cheaper, and more efficient and offer valorisation routes to materials with optimised properties for targeted sustainable energy applications.
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