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Amar Gopal Chittiboyina

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Nat'l Center for Natural Prod Research
Principal Scientist and Assistant Director of the National Center for Natural Products Research
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3040 National Ctr For Natural Products Research
University, MS 38677
(662) 915-1572
Joined UM: May 16, 2001

Areas of Expertise

  • ANALOG SYNTHESIS
  • ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
  • ANTICANCER DRUG DISCOVERY
  • CHEMISTRY, ORGANIC
  • COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY
  • COMPUTER-AIDED DRUG DESIGN
  • DRUG DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT
  • DRUG DISCOVERY, NATURAL PRODUCTS
  • HERBAL PRODUCTS
  • HETEROCYCLIC CHEMISTRY
  • ISOLATION OF NATURAL PRODUCTS
  • MARINE NATURAL PRODUCTS
  • MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
  • MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY, DRUG DESIGN
  • MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR MODELING
  • MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY, NATURAL PRODUCTS AS MODELS FOR DRUG DESIGN
  • MOLECULAR MODELING
  • NATURAL PRODUCTS
  • NATURAL PRODUCTS CHEMISTRY
  • NATURAL PRODUCTS ISOLATION AND STRUCTURE ELUCIDATION
  • NATURAL PRODUCTS RESEARCH
  • NATURAL PRODUCTS, ALGAE
  • NATURAL PRODUCTS, ANTICANCER
  • NATURAL PRODUCTS, ANTIFUNGAL
  • NATURAL PRODUCTS, ANTITUMOR
  • NATURAL PRODUCTS, BIOLOGICAL EVALUATION
  • NATURAL PRODUCTS, BLUE-GREEN ALGAE
  • NATURAL PRODUCTS, CYANOBACTERIA
  • NATURAL PRODUCTS, FUNCTION AND MECHANISM STUDIES
  • NATURAL PRODUCTS, MARINE
  • NATURAL PRODUCTS, MEDICINAL PLANT RESEARCH
  • NMR
  • NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY
  • ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
  • ORGANIC SYNTHESIS
  • PARALLEL AND COMBINATORIAL SYNTHESIS
  • PATENTS
  • PHARMACOGNOSY
  • PHARMACOGNOSY, MALARIA RESEARCH
  • PHARMACOKINETICS
  • PHOTOCHEMISTRY
  • PHYTOCHEMISTRY
  • PROJECT MANAGEMENT
  • RATIONAL DRUG DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
  • RATIONAL DRUG-DESIGN
  • RESEARCH - DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS
  • RESEARCH - MALARIA
  • RESEARCH - MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY & RATIONAL DRUG DESIGN
  • RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION, TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ISSUES
  • SCHOOL OF PHARMACY
  • SEMI-SYNTHESIS OF NATURAL PRODUCTS
  • SEMISYNTHESIS OF NATURAL PRODUCTS
  • SOLID-PHASE SYNTHESIS
  • STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP STUDIES (SAR)
  • STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIPS (SAR AND QSAR)
  • SYNTHETIC METHODS DEVELOPMENT
  • SYNTHETIC ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
  • TOTAL SYNTHESIS OF NATURAL PRODUCTS

Brief Bio

Dr. Chittiboyina holds an appointment as Assistant Director at the National Center for Natural Products Research, University of Mississippi. He has a broad background in organic chemistry, with specific training and expertise in medicinal chemistry, natural products, and analytical chemistry. Dr. Chittiboyina holder of several national, international patents has contributed to book chapters on natural products, medicinal chemistry as well as quality and safety assessment of phytochemicals in various matrices. His group collaborates with many interdisciplinary researchers including biomedical researchers. Many of our projects provide us with opportunities to probe the unique properties of phytochemicals that are part of various matrices and make modifications to improve detection limits, specificity or test important biological principles. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, Sigma-Xi, The Scientific Research Society American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society of Pharmacognosy and Society of Toxicology. He has authored over 100 peer- reviewed publications related to many aspects of natural and biologically active compounds. His research interests include biogenesis of secondary metabolites; development of synthetic methods and greener ways to produce natural products; implementation of orthogonal methods for the quality assessment of phytochemicals in various matrices; development of non-animal alternative methods in dermatotoxicology; application of computational tools to address the adverse effects such as potential herb-herb and herb-drug interactions associated with phytochemicals. Dr. Chittiboyina received his Ph.D. degree from the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India, followed by postdoctoral training at the Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Mississippi.

Degrees

Associate
Mathematics
ANDMA JUTEEYA KALASALA MACHILIPATNAM (1990)
BS
Mathematics
HINDU COLLEGE-MACHILIPATNAM ANDMAPRADESH (1993)
MS
Chemistry
Regional Engg Warangal (1995)
PhD
Synthetic Organic Chemistry
NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY-PUNE MAHARASHRA (2001)