Apurba Dutta

Apurba Dutta
  • Interim Chair
  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Medicinal Chemistry

Contact Info

785-864-4117
Del Shankel Structural Biology Center, Room 1083
2034 Becker Drive
Lawrence, KS 66047

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Education —

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Kansas, 1994, Lawrence, KS
Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Konstanz, 1992, Germany
Ph.D., North-Eastern Hill University, 1989, Shillong, India

Selected Publications —

Pashikanti, S.  Datta, A. Stereoselective Synthetic Routes to Iminosugars: A Divergent Approach Utilizing a Common Multifunctional Chiral Scaffold. Synthesis 2025, 57, 138-146.

Pashikanti, S. Ukani, R. David, S. A., & Dutta, A. Total Synthesis and Structure-Activity Relationship Studies of the Cytotoxic Anhydrophytosphingosine Jaspine B (Pachastrissamine). Synthesis, 2017, 49, 2088 - 2100.

Selected Presentations —

A Serine-Derived 2nd-Generation Chiron: Applications in the Synthesis of Drug-Like Molecular Scaffolds. Invited presentation (virtual). Inimmune Corp. Missoula, Montana 59802, USA. April 2024.

Cytotoxic marine natural product Jaspine B; A medicinal chemical investigation. Invited presentation (virtual) in the BIODURO Webinar Series on: Advances in Drug Discovery from Hit to Candidate (Small Molecules, Big Advances: Early to Late Lead Op), April 2021.