Professor Dr. Sameer Kulkarni

Biography

Sameer Kulkarni is a Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at the School of Chemistry, University of Sydney, and a member of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide and Protein Science. He completed his PhD at the University of South Florida, USA, where he primarily focused on the identification and synthesis of novel anti-cancer agents using a click chemistry approach. Following this, he was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM) in Japan, working on total chemical synthesis of proteins using KAHA ligation methodology. In 2016, he moved to Australia to take up a postdoctoral position with Prof. Richard Payne. As a lecturer since 2023, he has supervised numerous undergraduate and PhD students and has contributed to the development of selenium-mediated ligation methodologies for the synthesis and semi-synthesis of site-selectively modified peptides and proteins for therapeutic applications. His teaching includes courses on the fundamentals of chemistry and biological molecules, alongside lab supervision and PhD mentorship.

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