Principal Investigator
FASc, FNA
Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Deccan Institute of Science
Swarnajayanti Fellow
Director, Centre for Antimicrobial Discovery
Ananya leads the lab. Name any antibiotic and she will tell you how it works.
Ananya Rao is Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the Deccan Institute of Science, where she leads a group of twenty researchers discovering new antibiotics.
Her group found the first inhibitors of a bacterial transport system once thought undruggable; two of them are now in preclinical development. Before starting her lab she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge, and she received her PhD from the Indian Institute of Science.
Academic portfolio
Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Deccan Institute of Science
Associate Professor, Deccan Institute of Science
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge
PhD in Organic Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science
Thesis: Total synthesis of natural-product antibiotics
MSc in Chemistry, University of Hyderabad
Swarnajayanti Fellowship, National Research Foundation
Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Young Scientist Medal, National Science Academy
Associate Editor, Journal of Antimicrobial Discovery
Director, Centre for Antimicrobial Discovery, Deccan Institute of Science
New antibiotics for resistant bacteria, Gordon Research Conference on Medicinal Chemistry
Machine learning meets the medicine cabinet, International Drug Discovery Conference