Govindasamy Mugesh
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- Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (2012)
- CRSI Silver Medal (2019)
- Infosys Prize (2019)
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| Born | 29 May 1970 Tamil Nadu, India |
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| Known for | Studies on the mechanism of thyroid hormone action and Enzyme mimetics |
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| Website | https://www.mugesh-iisc.in/ |
Govindasamy Mugesh (born 1970) is an Indian inorganic and physical chemist, a professor and the head of the Mugesh Laboratory attached to the department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Science.[1] He is known for his studies on the mechanism of thyroid hormone action[2] and is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences,[3] Indian National Science Academy,[4] Royal Society of Chemistry[5] and the National Academy of Sciences, India.[6] The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2012, for his contributions to chemical sciences.[7] In 2019, he was awarded the Infosys Prize in Physical Sciences for his seminal work in the chemical synthesis of small molecules and nanomaterials for biomedical applications.[8]
Born on 29 May 1970 in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, G. Mugesh completed his graduate studies in chemistry at the University of Madras in 1990. After obtaining a master's degree from the Bharathidasan University in 1993, he enrolled for his doctoral degree at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai under the guidance of H. B. Singh to secure a PhD in 1998.[9] Remaining at the institute, he did his post doctoral studies there till 2000 and moved to continue his studies at the laboratories of de:Wolf-Walther du Mont of Brunswick University of Technology and de:Helmut Sies of University of Düsseldorf on an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship till 2001. After obtaining a Skaggs Postdoctoral Fellowship, he moved to the US to work with K. C. Nicolaou at the Scripps Research Institute. On his return to India in 2002, he joined the Indian Institute of Science as an assistant professor where he rose in ranks to become an associate professor in 2006 and a professor at the department of inorganic and physical chemistry in 2012.[10] At IISc, he heads the Mugesh Laboratory attached to it.[1]
Legacy
Mugesh is known to have carried out extensive researches on the chemistry of thyroid hormone metabolism[11] and his work has assisted in widening the understanding of organic/inorganic synthesis and enzyme mimetic studies.[10] He is credited with the development of therapeutic protocols for endothelial dysfunction and neurodegenerative diseases and with notable work on β-lactamase-based antibiotic resistance.[12] His research has been documented by way of a number of peer-reviewed articles;[13] ResearchGate and Google Scholar, two online article repositories of scientific articles, has listed 151[14] and 153 of them respectively.[15] He has done many clinical trials including the one on a compound developed by him for use as an anti-thyroid agent.[16] He has also been associated with science journals such as Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry,[5] ACS Omega of the American Chemical Society, Bioorganic Chemistry of Elsevier and Scientific Reports of Nature Publishing Group as a member of their editorial boards.[11] He serves as the vice president of the Asian Chemical Editorial Society (ACES) which publishes three science journals viz. Chemistry – An Asian Journal, Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry, and ChemNanoMat.[3]
