Prof. (Dr.) Devdutt Chaturvedi
Email Id: deanphysicalsciences@mgcub.ac.in
Prof. (Dr.) Devdutt Chaturvedi obtained his Ph. D. degree, from the Medicinal
Chemistry Division of the Central Drug Research Institute (CSIR), Lucknow, India. Thereafter, He
worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Georgia, USA & Institute of Organic Chemistry,
University of Goettingen, Germany. He returned to India and worked shortly as a Senior Postdoctoral
Fellow at the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology (I. I. T.), Madras and as a
Scientist Fellow at CSIR- Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (CSIR), Jammu and CSIR-North-East
Institute of Science and Technology (CSIR), Jorhat, Assam. He has worked on several areas of organic
synthesis and medicinal chemistry such as design and synthesis of novel classes of antidiabetic,
antifertility, antitubercular, anti-inflammatory, hypolipedemic, anti-HIV/HBV, anti-cancer,
antimalarial, antimicrobial, anti-alzheimer agents wherein he has investigated various kinds of
structurally diverse synthetic/natural molecules such as steroids, terpenoids, nucleosides,
structurally diverse heterocycles, carbamates and related compounds. He has published more than
100 research publications (containing more than 2100 citations, with h-index = 27) in reputed
international journals and filed 11 patents. He is the reviewer of several leading international
journals of different publishers such as American Chemical Society (ACS), Royal Society of Chemistry
(RSC), Science Direct Journals, Theime journals, Japanese journals, Wiley Interscience journals,
Bentham Science journals, Taylor & Francis journals, Hindawi Publishers journals, etc. His work has
further been recognized from the various kinds of awards such as Most Cited Paper Award (2006-
2009) for one of his Tetrahedron Letters publication, Young Scientist Award (2008-2009) from the
Govt. of Uttar Pradesh, Highest Impact Factor Award (2009-2010) for publishing a review article in
Chemical Society Reviews ( I. F. = 54.564) from the CSIR-North-East Institute of Science and
Technology (CSIR), Jorhat, Assam, India and DST-Fast Track Young Scientist Award (2010) from the
Govt. of India. He has also worked as a Guest Editor, for publishing a hot topic issue entitled
“Organic synthesis using green reaction media” for a leading international journal “Current Organic
Synthesis” published by Bentham Science Publishers, Ltd. He has also been invited to become a
member of editorial board of several international journals.
Complete address of the School:
Dean,
School of Physical Sciences,
Mahatma Gandhi Central University,
Motihari (East Champaran) 845401, Bihar
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