Harashkumar V T

Harashkumar Vasanthakumari Thirumalaiswamy joined Drug Discovery Unit (DDU) as a Ph.D., scholar on 9th September 2020. He worked as an Assistant Professor (Junior), the Department of Chemistry, School of Advanced Sciences (SAS), Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India for a period of 3 years from April 2021 to March 2024. He has completed a master’s and bachelor’s in chemistry at Chikkanna government arts college (Affiliated to Bharathiar University, Coimbatore). During his post-graduation, he worked as a part-time technical analyst in the Chemical Section of the Azo textile testing laboratory, Tirupur. He also has expertise in the chemical analysis field. His current research focused on the synthesis of NIR fluorescent imaging agents for the diagnosis of cancer and the development of small molecule-based proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) for cancer therapy. Recently, he went on an internship at WML lab, Department of Chemistry, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan under the International Internship Pilot Program (IIPP) as a scholar fellow for a period of 3 months from October 2023 to December 2023.