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Dr. Kana M. Sureshan

 Professor

School of Chemistry
IISER Thiruvananthapuram
Kerala-695551, India.
Email: kms@iisertvm.ac.in
Ph: +91 (0)471 - 2778064

Honors & Awards

  • Elected as Fellow of Indian National Science Academy (INSA) (2025).
  • J.C. Bose National Fellowship, DST, Govt of India (2024).
  • Member of the International Advisory Board of  Angewandte Chemie (2021).
  • National Technology Innovation Prize instituted by the Govt. of India, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers.
  • Elected as Fellow of Indian Academy of Science.
  • Bhagyatara award for the year 2018.
  • MRSI Medal-Material Research Society of India (2017).
  • Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI)-Bronze medal (2017).
  • Young scientist award, YIM-Boston, MIT, USA (2015).
  • Swarnajayanti Fellowship, Govt. of India (2014).
  • Ramanujan Fellowship, DST, Govt of India (2010).
  • Cash award (20,000.00 US Dollars) for solving an innocentive challenge (InnoCentive 5636748) for designing the shortest and economical route to PA-824, a candidate drug for tuberculosis (2008).
  • Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (2006-2008).
  • Cash award for solving an innocentive challenge (InnoCentive 1116662) on chemistry (2003).
  • JSPS Post-Doctoral Fellowship for Foreign researchers (2002-2004).
  • EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER of the International Journal OPEN GLYCOSCIENCE (from 2008).
  • Invited to be a GUEST EDITOR for an issue of the International journal CURRENT BIOACTIVE COMPOUNDS

Professional ​Track

  • 2020- Present : Professor at IISER Thiruvananthapuaram.
  • 2014-2019 : Associate Professor at IISER Thiruvananthapuaram
  • 2009-2014 : Assistant Professor at IISER Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
  • 2008-2009 : Senior Scientist, Institute of Life Sciences, Hyderabad.​
  • 2006-2008 : AvH Post Doctoral Fellow : Department of Chemical Biology, Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany.
  • 2004-2006 : Research Officer : Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Bath, BATH, BA2 7AY, UK.
  • 2002-2004 : JSPS Post-Doctoral Fellow : Faculty of Engineering, Ehime University, Japan.
  • 1997-2002 : Ph.D National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India.
  • 1994-1996 : Master of Science, SN College Kannur, University of Calicut, Kerala, India.
  • 1991-1994 : Bachelor of Science, Payyanur College, Payyanur, University of Calicut, Kerala, India.

Other Recognitions

  • Member: American Chemical Society, USA.
  • Member: Royal Society of Chemistry, England.
  • Member: Chemical Research Society of India.
  • Member: Association of Carbohydrate Chemists and Technologists, India.
  • Invited to be a GUEST EDITOR for an issue of the International journal CURRENT BIOACTIVE COMPOUNDS.
  • Invited to be an Associate Editor of the Journal Frontiers in Chemistry.
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