International Conference on Cheminformatics and Computational Chemical Biology
Brisbane, Australia
Muthukumarasamy Karthikeyan
CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, India
Biography
Muthukumarasamy Karthikeyan obtained his Bachelors and Masters Degree in Chemistry from Pondicherry University and Ph.D. (Chemistry) from National Chemical Laboratory (University of Pune) in the area of Organic Synthesis. He joined CSIR -National Chemical Laboratory, Pune as a senior scientist in the year 2000 and since then he is pursuing his active research career in Chemoinformatics especially in the area of high performance computing for molecular informatics and its application in lead identification and lead discovery. He is also the recipient of BOYSCAST Fellowship from Department of Science and Technology, and Long term Overseas Associateship from Department of Biotechnology to conduct research in the area of molecular informatics and structure-activity relationship studies at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. His current interest includes development of open-source tools for virtual screening in drug discovery and he recently published ten consecutive research articles on this theme. Other important areas of research in molecular informatics includes structure-activity relationships, molecular dynamics simulation, Chemical Reaction Modeling and in visual computing for molecular informatics (ChemRobot), hybrid computing (distributed, parallel, cloud) using multicore CPU-GPU processors as a web-based problem solving environment in chemical informatics.