Name : Arvind Singh Negi Designation : Chief Scientist Address : CSIR-CIMAP Kukrail Picnic Spot Road, Lucknow 226015, India E. mail : as[dot]negi[at]cimap[dot]res[dot]in Contact No : 9452158129 Fax : 583 Area of Specialization Medicinal chemistry, Organic Chemistry- Development of cancer chemotherapeutics by modulation of microtubule dynamics. (Designer molecules) Education M.Sc. Chemistry (Organic Chemistry) Ph.D. Chemistry (Medicinal Chemistry) Academic/Research Experience CIMAP, Phytochemistry - Scientist (Feb 1995- May 2000 ) CIMAP, Phytochemistry - Scientist, ‘C’ (May 2000- May 2004 ) CIMAP, Phytochemistry - Scientist, ‘E-I’ (May 2004- May 2008 ) CIMAP, Phytochemistry - Principal Scientist (May 2008- May 2013 ) CIMAP, Phytochemistry - Senior Principal Scientist (May 2013- May 2018 ) CIMAP, Phytochemistry - Chief Scientist (May 2018- till date ) Honours and Awards Bioorganic Medicinal Chemistry,Most cited paperby Elsevier Press, USA in 2007 Bioorganic Medicinal Chemistry,Most cited paperby Elsevier Press, USA in 2010 Bioorganic Medicinal Chemistry,Most cited paperby Elsevier Press, USA in 2008 ICS-UNIDO Fellowship ,by Univ. of Trieste, Italy in 2008 Raman Research Fellowship ,by Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA in 2010 DHR-Overseas Fellowship,by Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, USA in 2017 Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), UK,by UK in 2022 Publication Shikha Singh, Laxmikant Trivedi, Prema G. Vasudev, Daniele Passarella, and Arvind S. Negi. An Efficient Merging of DBU/Enolate and DBU/Benzyl Bromide Organocycles for the Synthesis of alpha Benzylated 1-Indanone Derivatives. New Journal of Chemistry 2022 Sneha Singh, Nandini Pathak, Eram Fatima, Arvind Singh Negi. Plant isoquinoline alkaloids: Advances in the chemistry and biology of berberine. Eur. J. Med. Chem. 2021 Sadiya Khwaja, Kapil Kumar, Ranjana Das, Arvind Singh Negi. Microtubule associated proteins as targets for anticancer drug development. Bioorganic Chemistry 2021 J. K. Kumar, Priyanka, A. S. Negi, M. M. Gupta, V. S. Kumar. “Handbook on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance for Natural Product Researcher”. “Handbook on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance for Natural Product Researcher” 2007 Patents File No Title Inventors Patent No. Abstract 291668 Anticancer and tubulin polymerization inhibition activity of benzylidene indanones and process of preparing the same Arvind Singh Negi, A.P. Prakasham, AK Saxena, Suaib Luqman, D. Chanda, Tandeep Kaur, Atul Gupta India/291668/ Anticancer and tubulin polymerization inhibition activity of benzylidene indanones and process of preparing the same