WMU welcomes Indian chemistry professor

Professor Subhash Padhye of the University of Pune, is visiting WMU on June 30 and July 1 to meet with WMU faculty and administrators to discuss possible collaboration in chemistry, engineering, and performing arts. The campus community is invited to a seminar entitled “The Final Frontier: Expoloring Biologically Relevant Chemical Space with Metallodrugs” at 4 p.m.on Monday, June 30 in room 1260 of the Chemistry building.

• Itinerary for Dr. Padhye's WMU visit 

The University of Pune (formerly known as University of Poona) was established under the Poona University Act, passed by the Bombay Legislature on 10th February, 1948. It serves the district of western Maharashtra in the west of India.   In the Indian system, undergraduate teaching takes place in 220 affiliated colleges while postgraduate programs are taught in the university itself.

Dr. Ekkehard Sinn, chair of chemistry, had developed a collaboration with University of Pune’s chemistry department and college of pharmacy while he was at the University of Hull, UK.  Professor Padhye is a visiting professor with Wayne State this summer and is visiting Kalamazoo to discuss possible collaboration with WMU.  In addition to his direct responsibilities as the former chair of chemistry, Professor Padhye has been asked to discuss broader collaboration with WMU and various colleges that make up the University of Pune system.  Of particular interest are collaboration in chemistry, engineering, and the fine arts.

Dr. Subhash Padhye is a professor of chemistry at the University of Pune and holds a joint appointment as the Director of Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research at the University of Pune, India. He did his high school and undergraduate studies in USA, and then earned a Ph.D. at University of Pune. He carried out his post-doctoral work at University of Illinois with Professor David Hendrickson and Professor Govindjee and at University of Colorado with Professor Cortland Pierpont.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and an affiliate member of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. He has been Fullbright professor at University of Arizona. He was also a British Council visiting professor at University of Manchester and University of Hull for 8 years. Within India he has been awarded with the highest honor for an inorganic chemist which is the Professor P. C. Ray Award for his contributions in teaching and research in Inorganic Chemistry. So far, 42 students have earned Ph.D.'s working with Padhye and 12 students are working with him currently towards their Ph.D. He has published more than 150 papers, five reviews and four chapters in books. and he holds six international patents on new drugs and novel polymer matrices for drug delivery. He is on the Editorial Boards of five international journals. Presently he is a NIH visiting Professor at Karmanos Cancer Institute. His current research interests include metal-based drugs for cancers, tuberculosis and diabetes.