Honours

Awards

• Best Poster award at 2nd KU-NDSU Joint Symposium on Biotechnology, Nanomaterials and Polymers, Fukushima, Japan, November 2016.
• 1st Prize of 2013 Eli Lilly and Company Asia Outstanding Thesis Awards.
• Research Associateship (2011) by Human Resource Development Group, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR-HRDG), Government of India.
• Best Poster award at 14th International Conference (ISCBC-2010) on Chemical Biology for Discovery: Perspectives and Challenges, January 2010, CDRI, Lucknow, India.
• Senior Research Fellowship (2009) by Human Resource Development Group, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR-HRDG), Government of India.
• Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE–2005 category: Pharmaceutical Sciences) with 98.64 percentile

Publications

• Dinesh Parshuram Satpute, Urjita Shirwadkar, Anil Kumar Tharalla, Sangita Dattatray Shinde, Gargi Nikhil Vaidya, Swarali Joshi, Priyanka Patel Vatsa, Alok Jain, Abhishek Singh, Rachana Garg*, Amit Mandoli*, Dinesh Kumar, * Discovery of fluorinated 2-styryl 4(3H)-quinazolinone as potential therapeutic hit for oral cancer, Submitted, Bioorganic Chem. 2022 (Manuscript ID: BIOORG-D-22-02586).
• Gargi Nikhil Vaidya, Ashwini Venkatesh, Deep Rohan Chatterjee, Pooja Rana, Mithilesh Nagpure, Dinesh Parshuram Satpute, Shyam Lokhande, Kiran Kalia,* Dinesh Kumar,* The Rise and Fall of Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in COVID Era: A Therapeutic Journey and Synthetic Progress
  ChemRxiv. https://chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv/article-details/62cee93f7aab585379bbe40b
• Dinesh Kumar, Himanshu Sharma, Nirjhar Saha, and Asit K. Chakraborti,* Domino synthesis of functionalized pyridine carboxylates under gallium catalysis: Unravelling the reaction pathway and the role of the nitrogen source counter anion, Chem Asian J. 2022, 17, e202200304.
• Sangita Dattatray Shinde, Dinesh Parshuram Satpute, Santosh Kumar Behera, Dinesh Kumar,* Computational Biology of BRCA2 in Male Breast Cancer, Through Prediction of Probable nsSNPs, and Hit Identification, ACS Omega, 2022, 7, 30447–3046.
• Gargi Nikhil Vaidya, Shyam Kumar Lokhande, Sangita Dattatray Shinde, Dinesh Parshuram Satpute, Garvita Narang, Dinesh Kumar,* Water Enabled, Nickel-Catalyzed Highly Chemoselective C-Allylation of (NH)-Indoles Employing Alcohols, Green Chem., 2022, 24, 4921-4927.
• Gargi N. Vaidya, Ramesh Hiralal Choudhary, Mithilesh Nagpure, Shyam Kumar Lokhande, Pooja Rana, Dinesh Kumar,* ‘In-Water’ Nickel-Catalyzed Allylic Aminations using Alcohols: Application to “All-Water” Synthesis of Pharmaceuticals”, Flunarizine, Cinnarizine, and Naftifine, Green Chem., 2022, 24, 3977-3984. (2022 HOT Article).
• Dinesh Parshuram Satpute, Gargi N. Vaidya, Shyam Kumar Lokhande, Sangita Dattatray Shinde, Shivkanya Bhujbal, Deep Rohan Chatterjee, Pooja Rana, V. Ashwini, Mithilesh Nagpure, Dinesh Kumar,* Organic reactions in aqueous media catalyzed by nickel, Green Chem., 2021, 23, 6273-6300.
• Gargi Nikhil Vaidya, Mithilesh Nagpure, Dinesh Kumar,* Borrowing Carbonate-Enabled Allylic Amination Reactions under Additive- and Reductant-Free Nickel Catalysis Employing Allylic Alcohols, ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng., 2021, 9, 1846.
• Manish Kumar Sharma, Komal Pandey, Ravi P. Shah, Dinesh Kumar, Pinaki Sengupta,* A mechanistic explanation on the degradation behavior of flibanserin for identification and characterization of its potential degradants using LC-DAD/ESI/APCIQ-TOF-MS/MS, Microchemical Journal, 2021, 167, 106281.
• Santosh Kumar Behera, Nazmina Vhora, Darshan Contractor, Amit Shard,* Dinesh Kumar,* Kiran Kalia,* Alok Jain,* Simultaneous Inhibition of Entry and Replication of Novel Corona Virus by Grazoprevir: A Computational Drug Repurposing Study, Sci. Rep. 2021, 11, 7307.
• Gargi Nikhil Vaidya, Pooja Rana, Ashwini V., Deep Rohan Chatterjee, Darshan Contractor, Dinesh Parshuram Satpute, Mithilesh Nagpure, Alok Jain, Dinesh Kumar,* Paradigm shift of “classical” HDAC inhibitors to “hybrid” HDAC inhibitors in therapeutic interventions, Eur. J. Med. Chem. 2021, 209, 112844.
• Shyam Kumar Lokhande, Gargi Nikhil Vaidya, Dinesh Parshuram Satpute, Ashwini V, Sanjeev Kumar, Dinesh Kumar,* Structure Ligation Relationship of Amino Acids for the Selective Indole C-H Arylation Reaction: L-Aspartic acid as Sustainable Alternative of Phosphines Ligands Adv. Syn. Catal. 2020, 362, 2857.
• Sanjeev Kumar, Dinesh Parshuram Satpute, Gargi Nikhil Vaidya, Mithilesh Nagpure, Shyam Kumar Lokhande, Deepak Kumar Meena, Dinesh Kumar,* Micellar catalysis enabled synthesis of indolylbenzothiazoles and their functionalization via Mn(II)-catalyzed C2–H amination using pyridones Tetrahedron Lett. 2020, 61, 152017.
• Gargi Nikhil Vaidya, Sneha Fiske, Hansa Verma, Shyam Kumar Lokhande, Dinesh Kumar,* A micellar catalysis strategy applied to the Pd-catalyzed C–H arylation of indoles in water, Green Chem., 2019, 21, 1448. (Highlighted in Organic Process Research & Development under section Industry Relevant Research).
• 15) Gargi Nikhil Vaidya, Arif Khan, Hansa Verma, Sanjeev Kumar, Dinesh Kumar,* Structure ligation relationship of amino acids for the amination cross-coupling reactions, J. Org. Chem., 2019, 84, 3004.