Dr. Brijesh Rathi, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Hansraj College, University of Delhi, India completed his Bachelor and Master degrees with first division from CCS University Meerut. He then joined University of Delhi for the doctoral studies in 2004. He completed doctoral degree on synthetic and structural aspects of novel sym-triaryl guanidines in 2010.

Dr. Rathi joined Prof. Alexander M Klibanov's group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America as a Visiting Assistant Professor for one year (2016-2017). While his stay at MIT, he made intriguing research findings to drug discovery area and gained high standard trainings and established longstanding collaborations with eminent research groups. Dr. Rathi was recently appointed as an Adjunct-Assistant Professor (2018-2021) at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, United States of America. He was recently appointed as Affiliate Professor (2019-2022) at University of Debrecen, Hungary to conduct PhD course and undergraduate elective 14 credit courses.

At present Dr. Rathi is leading Laboratory For Translational Chemistry and Drug Discovery; Research Cell of the College, Institution Innovation Council (a proud member of MIC, Government of India), and Centre for Global Health (a unit of Loyola University) as convener.

Awards and Honors

2019 - CAPES Fellowship from Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, Ministry of Education, Brazil (15-30 November, 2019).

2018 – Excellence Awards for In Service Teachers - College from University of Delhi.

2018 onwards - Associate Editor for Chemical Biology Letters.

2018 - Ambassador for Bentham Science Publishers.

2018 - Best Young Teacher from Grace India Foundation.

2017 onwards - Section Editor for Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry (IF, 3.37).

2017 onwards - International Reviewer for Russian Science Foundation (RSF) – on recommendations of Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Russia.

2016 – Early Career Research Award from Science & Engineering Research Board, Government of India.

2015/16 – University Grants Commission Raman Post-doctoral Fellowship from Ministry of Human Recourses and Development, Government of India.

2010 – Young Scientist Project Fellowship from Department of Science & Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India.