Biography

Dr. Raghu Vannam is working as a scientist at Olon Ricerca Bioscience LLC, Ohio. He received a Ph.D. degree from University of Connecticut (UCONN) and his doctoral research, under the supervision of Prof. Mark W. Peczuh, involves the synthesis of new septanoses and their utilization as surrogates of natural pyranoses. Before joining Ricerca, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Prof. Joseph M. Fox lab at the University of Delaware (UDEL) and his research mainly involves the synthesis of new probes for radiochemical imaging applications. During his graduate training, he did an internship at Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) where he worked on the large-scale synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients. His research work published in international journals like Chemical Science, Organic Letters, Org. Biomol. Chem, chem-bio. Chem. etc. He is currently serving as a reviewer for Tetrahedron Letters, Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry, Bio-Organic, and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, and Synthetic Communications journal publications.