User:Harsh V. Jain

Harsh V. Jain
Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, NY, USA
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Education
August 2004- Present University at Buffalo, State University of New York Doctoral Candidate, Medicinal Chemistry Department of Chemistry Graduate studies advisor – Dr. Thomas I. Kalman

July 2001-December 2002 National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Mohali, India Master of Science (Pharm.) Medicinal Chemistry Mohali, Punjab, India Graduate studies advisor- Dr. Asit K. Chakraborti

August 1997-July 2001 Hindu College of Pharmacy, Sonepat, India Bachelor of Pharmacy (B. Pharm) Sonepat, Haryana, India

Research interests
• Nucleoside, nucleotide and oligonucleotide chemistry

• Molecular modeling

• In vitro enzyme and cell based assays to study the potency and/or metabolism of the compounds

Presentations & Publications
1.	Jain, H. V., Kalman, T. I., "Simple one step synthesis of novel cyclic pronucleotides (cProTides)" 36th Northeast Regional    Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Hartford, CT, United States, October 7-10 (2009), NERM-239

2.	Jain, H. V., Kalman, T. I., "Simple one step synthesis of novel cyclic pronucleotides (cProTides)" Nucleosides, Nucleotides & Oligonucleotides, Gordon Research Conferences, July 5-10, 2009

3.	Jain, H. V., Rasheed, R., Kalman, T. I., "Mechanistic insights into the inhibition of thymidine phosphorylase by basic side chain-containing uracil derivatives" Nucleosides, Nucleotides & Oligonucleotides, Gordon Research Conferences, July 5-10, 2009

4.	Jain, H. V., Rasheed, R., Kalman, T. I., "Studies on the mechanism of inhibition of thymidine phosphorylase by 6-substituted 5-fluorouracil derivatives". Poster Presentation. University at Buffalo Sigma Xi Research Day and University at Buffalo Celebration of Academic Excellence, April 7, 2009

5.	Jain, H. V., Rasheed, R., Kalman, T. I., "Studies on the mechanism of inhibition of thymidine phosphorylase by 6-substituted 5-fluorouracil derivatives". Poster Presentation. 236th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, United States, August 17-21, 2008: MEDI-121.

6.	Chakraborti, A. K., Kaur, G., Khanna, S., and Jain, H. V., “Solution and Solid Phase Combinatorial Synthesis of Chalcone Libraries: Application of APCIMS and LCMS in Indentification of the Constituents”. Poster Presentation. ISMAS Silver Jubilee Symposium on Mass Spectrometry, National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India, Jan 27-31, 2003, Contributed Papers, Vol II, 912.

7.	Jain, H. V. “Use of microwaves in synthetic chemistry”. Slide Presentation. National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Mohali, India. June, 2002.

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