Chebrolu Pulla Rao

Prof. C.P. Rao currently holds Institute Chair Professorship in Dept of Chemistry, IIT Bombay wherein he is a faculty since 1988. He did his MSc from IIT Madras, PhD from IISc., Bangalore, and two post doctoral stints one at Harvard University and the other at MIT. He has been teaching UG, PG and Ph.D. students at IIT Bombay for over three decades. His research interest spans across Biological Inorganic and Supramolecular chemistry using small synthetic molecular systems as well as proteins with an extension of the studies to biological cells, and the efforts are way into nanobiomaterials. His research group extensively uses spectroscopy, microscopy and diffraction techniques besides practicing biochemical methodologies including antiproliferative activity. Till now 31 PhD and 55 MSc students completed their degrees and published over 200 papers in journals of international repute and completed a number of research projects sponsored by DST (SERB, Nano Mission), CSIR and DAE-BRNS.
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