Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
 
Laboratory for Biomaterials and Molecular Imaging

People

Photo of Kousik Kundu

Kousik Kundu, Ph.D.
Post Doctoral Fellow



Short Biography

RESEARCH PROJECT

Design New Probes for Imaging Reactive Oxygen Species in Cell culture, ex vivo and in vivo.

EDUCATION/BACKGROUND

Ph.D. (Chemistry) University of Maryland, College Park, USA
M.S. (Chemistry) Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
B.S. (Chemistry) Bankura Christian College, India

PUBLICATIONS

1. Kundu, K.; MaCullagh, J. V.; Morehead; A. T. Hydroacylation of 2-Vinyl Benzaldehyde Systems: An Efficient Method for the Synthesis of Chiral 3-Substituted Indanones, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 16042-16043. 

2. Doyle, M. P.; Kundu, K.; Russell, A. E. Catalytic Condensation Methods for the Synthesis of Functionalized Diazoacetoacetates and Application to the Construction of Highly Substituted Cyclobutanones, Org. Lett. 2005, 7, 5171-5174.

3. Morgan, J. P.*; Kundu, K.*; Doyle, M. P. Readily Prepared Heterobimetallic Titanium(IV)-Rhodium(I) Catalyst for Intramolecular Hydroacylation, Chem. Comm. 2005, 26, 3307-3309. 

4. Kundu, K.; Doyle, M. P. Synthesis of Chiral Diazoacetates by Asymmetric Catalytic Mukaiyama Aldol Addition, Tetrahedron Asym. 2006, 17, 574-577. (Special Issue on Asymmetric Synthesis Honoring Prof. Jack Halpern). 

5. Kundu, K.; Knight, S. F.; Willett, N.; Lee, S.; Taylor, W. R.; Murthy, N. Hydrocyanines: A New Class of Fluorescent Sensors That Can Image Reactive Oxygen Species in Cell-Culture, Tissue and In Vivo, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 2, 299-303. 
(Highlighted in Nature Chemistry: “Go with the Glow” Dec 2008, Popular Mechanics, GaTech Homepage, Medical News Today, Science Daily, Genetic Eng. and Biotech News Podcast etc)

6. Kundu, K.; Jervis, B. B. New Approach to Multiply Deuteated Isoprenoids using triply engineered E.coli. Chemtracts, Organic Chemistry 15:1-5(2002). 

7. Kundu, K.; Russell, A. E.; Doyle, M. P. Dirhodium(II) Tetrakis[methyl 2-oxooxazolidine-4(S)-carboxylate], Rh2(4SMEOX) 4•2 CH3CN, Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis 2005, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Article Online Posting Date: October 15, 2005.

PATENT APPLICATIONS:

US Patent Application 61/100,897 (filed March 30, 2009) Reduced Dye Probes for Detection of Reactive Oxygen Species, Murthy, N., Taylor, W. R.; Kundu, K.; Knight, S. F.