Sasikumar Kuttappan

Dr. Sasikumar Kuttappan is currently working as Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) at Plant Lipids Private Limited, Cochin, India. He obtained his Doctoral degree in Chemistry from NIIST (RRL, CSIR), Trivandrum, Kerala, India. After post-doctoral studies at CNRS (France) and Columbia University (USA), he started his pharmaceutical industry career as a medicinal chemist at Merck-Schering-Plough in the United States. Upon returning to India, he worked with various CRO's before taking up his current...See more

Dr. Sasikumar Kuttappan is currently working as Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) at Plant Lipids Private Limited, Cochin, India. He obtained his Doctoral degree in Chemistry from NIIST (RRL, CSIR), Trivandrum, Kerala, India. After post-doctoral studies at CNRS (France) and Columbia University (USA), he started his pharmaceutical industry career as a medicinal chemist at Merck-Schering-Plough in the United States. Upon returning to India, he worked with various CRO's before taking up his current role as CSO at Plant Lipids. His research interests are in drug discovery, synthetic organic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, natural product chemistry, combinatorial chemistry, photo & electrochemistry and chemistry automation. He has published more than 30 research articles in international journals, 22 patents and co-edited the 1 book. See less