Rakesh K. Singh, Ph.D., M.Phil.

Professional Background

Like thousands of medicinal chemists across the world I frequently spin my magnetic bars overnight, scratch round bottom flasks next morning as if the molecules are hiding somewhere in the flask walls and look at my harvest anxiously standing around my dirty and disorganized chemical hood hoping that NMR and Mass will be okay and my hunt for that elusive molecule which is going to help someone rid of his/her disease to some extent is finally complete. In this tryst, I combine alphabets of cancer biology, tumor immunology, medicinal chemistry and some rudimentary pharmacology and drug design concepts and in vitro and in vivo models of tumors for screening; and seek guidance from molecular modeling/virtual screening experts and most recently with some extraterrestrial artificial intelligence (AI) nerds to design a drug-like molecule against a protein target which physicians or researchers believe has gone awry (based on their trust in p values) and is making some one sick.

Research