Molecular Docking for Computer-Aided Drug Design

Dr. S. Mohane Coumar has over 15 years of research experience in the design and discovery of drugs in India and also in Taiwan. From 2010 he is working as Assistant Professor at Centre for Bioinformatics, Pondicherry University, India and has received his Ph.D. (Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2003) from Punjab University, Chandigarh, India. He briefly worked as Research officer at Regional Research Lab, Jammu and as Research Scientist at Ranbaxy Research Labs - New Drug Discovery Unit, Gurgaon, before moving to Taiwan for postdoctoral research. He has over six years (2004-2010) research training at National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan on anti-cancer drug design & development. His research efforts have led to several international patents and publications. Two of his inventions are in Clinical development for the treatment of cancer in Taiwan. At Pondicherry University, his efforts are focused on applying Chemical & biological knowledge to the design and development of drugs using computational approaches such as computer-aided drug design (CADD), NGS data analysis and systems biology approaches. His current research areas includes, anti-cancer and anti-microbial drug discovery with a focus to overcome drug resistance.