Faculty Profile
Saumen Chakraborty
Areas of Expertise
- ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
- ANTICANCER DRUG DISCOVERY
- ANTICANCER RESEARCH
- BIOCHEMISTRY
- BIOPHARMACEUTICS
- BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
- BIOTECHNOLOGY, DRUG DESIGN
- CANCER, DRUG DISCOVERY
- CANCER, NEW DRUG TARGETS
- CANCER, NEW MOLECULAR TARGETS
- CAREER COUNSELING
- CHEMISTRY
- CHEMISTRY EDUCATION
- CHEMISTRY, BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS
- CHEMISTRY, BIOINORGANIC CHEMISTRY
- CHEMISTRY, CATALYSIS
- CHEMISTRY, ELECTROCHEMISTRY
- CHEMISTRY, ENZYMES
- CHEMISTRY, PROTEIN STRUCTURE
- CHEMISTRY, SUMMER RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES IN CHEMISTRY
- CHEMISTRY, UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH
- CHEMISTRY, X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
- CURRICULUM DESIGN
- DRUG DISCOVERY, CANCER
- ENZYMOLOGY
- FACULTY - LEADERSHIP
- HIGHER EDUCATION - STUDENT SERVICES
- MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
- MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, CANCER
- MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, DRUG DISCOVERY
- MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, DRUG TARGETS
- NATURAL PRODUCTS, ANTICANCER
- NSF PEER REVIEW
- PHOTOCHEMISTRY
- PROTEIN ENGINEERING
- PROTEIN MODELING
- PROTEIN STRUCTURE
- RESEARCH - GRANT PREPARATION, EVALUATION & REVIEW PROCESSES
- RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
- SCIENCE EDUCATION
- SCIENCE EDUCATION (K-8)
- STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY
- STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIPS (SAR AND QSAR)
- STUDENT AFFAIRS
- STUDENT RECRUITMENT
- STUDENT RETENTION
- WRITING, GRANTS
Brief Bio
Dr. Saumen Chakraborty, Assistant Professor at UM since 2016, received his Ph.D. in chemical biology and inorganic chemistry from Univ. of Michigan in 2011. His research interests are bioinorganic chemistry and nanomaterials. He was a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Univ. of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign from 2011-2013. From 2014-2016 he was a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Los Alamos National Laboratory where he conducted laboratory research focused on the synthesis, and characterization of gold nanoclusters (AuNCs), silver nanoclusters (AgNCs), and biomaterials and their applications in energy, catalysis, and bioimaging. He was recently awarded a grant from the NIH to study a class of enzymes that could lead to significant advances in alternate energy research.
Degrees
PhD |
Chemistry |
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (2011) |
Awards
Dr. Mike L. Edmonds New Scholar Award |
2022 |