Dr. Geetanjali Agnihotri
DST- Women Scientist
Founder, Director Aromasymphonies Pvt Ltd

Academic Qualifications:
Post Doctoral Fellowship: University of Kansas, KU, USA
Ph.D. (Chemistry): Medicinal and Process Chemistry Division, Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow, India.
M.Sc. SSJM University, Kanpur
Area of Specialization: Synthetic organic chemistry/carbohydrate and peptide chemistry.

Research Experiences

  • C-CAMP Research Scientist, 2017
  • SERB-Fast track Scientist-Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, 2013
  • Research Scientist at Institute for Polymer Science, GKSS Research Center (Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht centre for Materials and Coastal Research), Teltow, Berlin, Germany, 2007

List of Publications:

  1. Identification of FtsZ inhibitors binding to the doxorubicin binding site as novel antimicrobial agents. Journal of biomolecular structure and dynamics, Geetanjali Agnihotri (under communication)
  2. “Identification of multipotent drugs for COVID-19 therapeutics with the evaluation of their SARS-CoV2 inhibitory activity” Sugandh Kumar, Bharati Singh, Pratima Kumari, Preethy V. Kumar, Geetanjali Agnihotri, Shaheerah Khan, Tushar Kant Beuria, Gulam Hussain Syed, Anshuman Dixit Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2021, 19, 1998–2017.
  3. “Molecular modeling and identification of novel glucokinase activators through stepwise virtual screening.” Pabitra M. Behera, Deepak K. Behera, Suresh Satpati, Geetanjali Agnihotri, Sanghamitra Nayaka, Payodhar Padhi, Anshuman Dixit. J. of Mol. Graphics and Modelling, 2015, 57, 122–130.
  4. “Structure-activity relationships in Toll-like Receptor 2-Agonists leading to simplified monoacyl lipopeptides”. Geetanjali Agnihotri, Breanna M. Crall, Tyler C. Lewis, Timothy P. Day, Rajalakshmi Balakrishna, Hemamali J. Warshakoon, Subbalakshmi S. Malladi,  Sunil A. David, J. Med. Chem., 2011, 54, 8148–8160.
  5. “Structure-activity relationships in Nucleotide Oligomerization Domain 1 (Nod1) Agonistic γ-Glutamyldiaminopimelic Acid derivatives”. Geetanjali Agnihotri, Rehman Ukani, Subbalakshmi S. Malladi, Hemamali J. Warshakoon, Rajalakshmi Balakrishna, Xinkun Wang, Sunil A. David, J. Med. Chem., 2011, 54, 1490-1510.