Sankaran Thayumanavan

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NationalityIndian-American
CitizenshipUnited States of America
Alma materAmerican College, Madurai, India
OccupationProfessor
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Sankaran “Thai” Thayumanavan is an Indian-American chemist, who is currently a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Early Life and Education

Thayumanavan grew up in the cities of Tirunelveli and Madurai in the southern state of Tamil Nadu in India. He obtained his B.Sc. (1987) and M.Sc. (1989) degrees in the American College, Madurai, India. He was awarded his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry at the at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign under the tutelage of Professor Peter Beak in 1996. His postdoctoral work was carried out with Dr. Seth Marder at the California Institute of Technology.[1]

Career

Thayumanavan began his independent career as a faculty member at Tulane University in 1999.[2] He moved to the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2003, where he currently serves as a Distinguished Professor in the Chemistry Department [3] and Biomedical Engineering Department.[4] He also serves as the Director of the Center for Bioactive Delivery[5] at the Institute for Applied Life Sciences.[6]

His research focus uses molecular design principles that are founded in physical organic chemistry, alongside the toolsets of synthetic chemistry and supramolecular polymer chemistry.[7] Thayumanavan’s early work involved contributions to the design, syntheses, and self-assembly behavior of amphiphilic homopolymers.[8] [9] His research focus uses molecular design principles that are founded in physical organic chemistry, alongside the toolsets of synthetic chemistry and supramolecular polymer chemistry for applications in materials and biomedicine.[10]

Awards

  • 2019 – Mahoney Life Sciences Prize[11][12]
  • 2019 – Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award[13]
  • 2016 – Chemical Research Society of India Medal[14][15]
  • 2014 – Chancellor’s Medal, UMass[16]
  • 2010 – Fellow of of the American Association for the Advancement of Science[17]
  • 2002 – Cottrell Scholar Award[19]
  • 2002 – NSF CAREER Award[20]

References

  1. ↑ "Members | The Thayumanavan Group". Retrieved 2020-11-09.
  2. ↑ Massachusetts Daily Collegian: https://dailycollegian.com/2010/09/chemistry-professor-sankaran-thayumanavan-named-campus%E2%80%99-first-spotlight-scholar/ Retrieved June 2, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Faculty & Research | Department of Chemistry | UMass Amherst". www.umass.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
  4. ↑ "Biomedical Engineering Faculty | Biomedical Engineering | UMass Amherst". bme.umass.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
  5. ↑ Center for Bioactive Delivery at the Institute for Applied Life Sciences, UMass-Amherst https://www.umass.edu/cbd/ Retrieved October 28, 2019.
  6. ↑ Institute for Applied Life Sciences at UMass-Amherst: https://www.umass.edu/ials/ Retrieved October 28, 2019.
  7. ↑ Department of Chemistry at UMass Amherst: http://www.umass.edu/chemistry/faculty/sankaran-thayumanavan Retrieved June 2, 2020.
  8. ↑ Tejaswini S. Kale, Akamol Klaikherd, Bhooshan Popere, and S. Thayumanavan. (May 2009) Supramolecular Assemblies of Amphiphilic Homopolymers. Langmuir, 25: 9660-9670. doi:10.1021/LA900734D. PMID: 19453140.
  9. ↑ Elamprakash N. Savariar, Sivakumar V. Aathimanikandan, and S. Thayumanavan. (November 2006) Supramolecular Assemblies from Amphiphilic Homopolymers: Testing the Scope. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 128: 16224–16230. doi:10.1021/ja065213o. PMID: PMC2526122.
  10. ↑ Department of Chemistry at UMass Amherst: http://www.umass.edu/chemistry/faculty/sankaran-thayumanavan Retrieved June 2, 2020.
  11. ↑ Mahoney Life Sciences Prize Honors ‘Shrink-wrap’ Approach to Protein Therapeutics: https://edublog.news/2019/04/24/mahoney-life-sciences-prize-honors-shrink-wrap-approach-to-protein-therapeutics/ . Retrieved October 30, 2019.
  12. ↑ S. "Thai" Thayumanavan at UMass Amherst awarded the 2019 Mahoney Life Sciences Prize: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtqGQWoLFuM. Retrieved October 30, 2019.
  13. ↑ Graduate School Honors Distinguished Mentor and Staff Award Recipients: https://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/graduate-school-honors-distinguished-0 . Retrieved October 30, 2019.
  14. ↑ Sankaran Thayumanavan Receives CRSI’s Medal of Honor: https://www.indiawest.com/news/business/career-moves-sankaran-thayumanavan-receives-crsi-s-medal-of-honor/article_c7139fb4-f20b-11e5-84a4-1b9d10567e7e.html. Retrieved October 30, 2019.
  15. ↑ Thayumanavan Awarded Chemical Research Society of India’s Medal of Honor: https://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/thayumanavan-awarded-chemical-research. Retrieved October 30, 2019.
  16. ↑ UMass Amherst Chemist Describes ‘Smart’ Targeting of Drug Therapy in Season’s First Distinguished Faculty Lecture: https://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/umass-amherst-chemist-describes-%E2%80%98smart%E2%80%99. Retrieved October 30, 2019.
  17. ↑ AAAS Honorary Fellows: https://www.aaas.org/fellows . Retrieved October 30, 2019.
  18. ↑ ACS – Connecticut Valley Section: https://cvs-acs.sites.acs.org/photos/John%20Burlew%20Award-1a.pdf. Retrieved October 30, 2019.
  19. ↑ Cottrell Scholar Award: https://rescorp.org/cottrell-scholars/cottrell-scholar-award . Retrieved October 30, 2019.
  20. ↑ US National Science Foundation: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0353039&HistoricalAwards=false Retrieved June 13, 2020.

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