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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Sandeep Verma
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1966|6|24}}
| birth_place = [[Kanpur]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], India
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| residence = Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
| nationality = [[Indian nationality|Indian]]
| fields = {{ublist | [[Bioorganic chemistry]] }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[Banaras Hindu University]] | [[IIT Kanpur]] | [[Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal|IISER, Bhopal]] }}
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[University of Illinois Medical Center]] | [[Johns Hopkins Hospital]] | [[Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine]] }}
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| known_for = Studies on Ordered Peptide Assemblies, Metal-Mediated Systems, New Antimicrobials, and Small Molecule Stem Cell Interaction.
| awards = {{ublist | 2003 B. M. Birla Science Prize | 2005 Swarnajayanti Fellowship in Chemical Sciences | 2005 [[Chemical Research Society of India|CRSI]] Bronze Medal | 2010 [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] | 2017 [[Chemical Research Society of India|CRSI]] Silver Medal | 2019 Goyal Prize in Chemical Sciences}}
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'''Sandeep Verma''' (born 1966) is an Indian bioorganic chemist and chemical biologist, and a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur]] (IITK).<ref name="Professor, IIT Kanpur">{{Cite web |url=https://globalprofessorrank.com/professors/sandeep-verma |title=Professor, IIT Kanpur |date=2016 |publisher=Global Professor Rank}}</ref> At IITK, he heads Sandeep Verma's Research Group<ref name="Sandeep Verma's Research Group">{{Cite web |url=https://www.iitk.ac.in/new/sandeep-verma |title=Sandeep Verma's Research Group}}</ref> in the areas of ordered peptide assemblies, metal-mediated nanoscale systems, programmable soft matter for neuronal regeneration, novel antimicrobials, and small molecule-stem cell modulation.<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=131 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2016 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref> He is an elected fellow of the [[Indian National Science Academy]] (INSA), the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]]<ref name="Fellow profile">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Verma,_Prof._Sandeep |title=Fellow profile |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}}</ref> and the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]].<ref name="NASI Fellows">{{Cite web |url=http://nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=V |title=NASI fellows |date=2016 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India}}</ref> The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2010, for his contributions to Chemical Sciences.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx | title=View Bhatnagar Awardees | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | accessdate=12 November 2016}}</ref>

== Biography ==
[[File:A building at IIT Kanpur.jpg|thumb|235px|left|Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur]]
Born on 24 June 1966, in Kanpur in the Indian state of [[Uttar Pradesh]], Sandeep Verma did his early schooling in [[Varanasi]] and completed his master's degree at [[Banaras Hindu University]] in 1989.<ref name="Professor Sandeep Verma of IIT-Kanpur and BHU alumnus receives Bhatnagar Prize">{{Cite web |url=http://www.itbhuglobal.org/chronicle/archives/2010/09/professor_sande.php |title=Professor Sandeep Verma of IIT-Kanpur and BHU alumnus receives Bhatnagar Prize |date=2016 |publisher=IIT-BHU Chronicle}}</ref> Subsequently, he secured a PhD from [[University of Illinois Medical Center]], Chicago in 1994 and he did his post-doctoral work, first at [[Johns Hopkins Hospital]] and later at [[Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine]].<ref name="Thematic Unit of Excellence">{{Cite web |url=http://www.iitk.ac.in/nanoscience/coord.html |title=Thematic Unit of Excellence |date=2016 |publisher=IIT Kanpur}}</ref> On his return to India in 1997, he joined the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur]] as an Assistant Professor.<ref name="Faculty profile">{{Cite web |url=http://www.iitk.ac.in/new/sandeep-verma |title=Faculty profile |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur}}</ref>

== Legacy ==
Verma's researches may broadly be classified into four segments: Ordered Peptide Assemblies,<ref name="Peptide-based Synthetic Design, Construction and Morphology of Soft Structures">{{Cite journal |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23394277/ |title=Peptide-based Synthetic Design, Construction and Morphology of Soft Structures|year=2012|pmid=23394277|last1=Mondal|first1=S.|last2=Barman|first2=A. K.|last3=Verma|first3=S.|journal=Chimia|volume=66|issue=12|pages=930–5|doi=10.2533/chimia.2012.930}}</ref> Metal-Mediated Systems,<ref name="Directed Adenine Functionalization for Creating Complex Architectures for Material and Biological Applications">{{Cite journal |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28393940/ |title=Directed Adenine Functionalization for Creating Complex Architectures for Material and Biological Applications|year=2017|pmid=28393940|last1=Mohapatra|first1=B.|last2=Verma|first2=S.|journal=Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)|volume=53|issue=35|pages=4748–4758|doi=10.1039/c7cc00222j}}</ref> New Antimicrobials<ref name="A Novel Molecular Scaffold Resensitizes Multidrug-Resistant S. Aureus to Fluoroquinolones">{{Cite journal |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31276129/ |title=A Novel Molecular Scaffold Resensitizes Multidrug-Resistant S. Aureus to Fluoroquinolones|year=2019|pmid=31276129|last1=Panjla|first1=A.|last2=Kaul|first2=G.|last3=Shukla|first3=M.|last4=Tripathi|first4=S.|last5=Nair|first5=N. N.|last6=Chopra|first6=S.|last7=Verma|first7=S.|journal=Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)|volume=55|issue=59|pages=8599–8602|doi=10.1039/c9cc03001h}}</ref> and Small Molecule Stem Cell Interaction.<ref name="Tripeptide-induced Modulation of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Biomechanics Stimulates Proliferation and Wound Healing">{{Cite journal |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32048649/ |title=Tripeptide-induced Modulation of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Biomechanics Stimulates Proliferation and Wound Healing|year=2020|pmid=32048649|last1=Sharma|first1=S.|last2=Kulkarni|first2=C.|last3=Kulkarni|first3=M. M.|last4=Ali|first4=R.|last5=Porwal|first5=K.|last6=Chattopadhyay|first6=N.|last7=Tewari|first7=D.|last8=Verma|first8=S.|journal=Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)|volume=56|issue=20|pages=3043–3046|doi=10.1039/c9cc10043a}}</ref> He is credited with the synthesis of enzyme mimics using metal-mediated systems and his group is involved in developing bio-inspired soft matter and protocols for using biological building blocks as diagnostic tools for diseases.<ref name="Ultrasensitive NO X Detection in Simulated Exhaled Air: Enhanced Sensing via Alumina Modification of In-Situ Grown WO 3 Nanoblocks">{{Cite journal |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31420935/ |title=Ultrasensitive NO X Detection in Simulated Exhaled Air: Enhanced Sensing via Alumina Modification of In-Situ Grown WO 3 Nanoblocks|year=2019|pmid=31420935|last1=Alam|first1=S.|last2=Ansari|first2=M. S.|last3=Banik|first3=A.|last4=Ali|first4=R.|last5=Verma|first5=S.|last6=Qureshi|first6=M.|journal=Chemistry: An Asian Journal|volume=14|issue=24|pages=4673–4680|doi=10.1002/asia.201900699}}</ref><ref name="Purine-blended Nanofiber Woven Flexible Nanomats for SERS-based Analyte Detection">{{Cite journal |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32323673/ |title=Purine-blended Nanofiber Woven Flexible Nanomats for SERS-based Analyte Detection|year=2020|pmid=32323673|last1=Saravanan|first1=R. K.|last2=Naqvi|first2=T. K.|last3=Patil|first3=S.|last4=Dwivedi|first4=P. K.|last5=Verma|first5=S.|journal=Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)|volume=56|issue=43|pages=5795–5798|doi=10.1039/d0cc00648c}}</ref> His research has been documented by a number of peer-reviewed articles, reviews and book chapters.<ref name="Sandeep Verma's Research Group"/> He serves as an Associate Editor of [[Chemical Communications]] (RSC, UK)<ref name="A warm welcome to Sandeep Verma, our new ChemComm Associate Editor">{{Cite web |url=https://blogs.rsc.org/cc/2017/07/25/welcome-sandeep-verma-new-chemcomm-associate-editor/ |title=A warm welcome to Sandeep Verma, our new ChemComm Associate Editor}}</ref> and is on the Editorial Advisory Boards of [[Cell Chemical Biology]],<ref name="Editorial Board: Cell Chemical Biology">{{Cite web |url=https://www.cell.com/cell-chemical-biology/editorial-board |title=Editorial Board: Cell Chemical Biology}}</ref> [[ChemBioChem]]<ref name="ChemBioChem: Editorial Board">{{Cite web |url=https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/14397633/editorial-board |title=ChemBioChem: Editorial Board}}</ref> and [[Journal of Peptide Science]].<ref name="Journal of Peptide Science: Editorial Board">{{Cite web |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/10991387/homepage/editorialboard.html |title=Journal of Peptide Science: Editorial Board}}</ref>

== Awards and honours ==
Verma won the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund Award, P. N. Bhargava Medal and [[Banaras Hindu University|BHU]] Vice Chancellor's Gold Medal for academic excellence in master's degree examination in 1989, and the J. Watumull Endowed Award of the [[University of Illinois at Chicago]] in 1993. He won the B. M. Birla Science Prize (2003),<ref name="B. M. Birla Science Prize">{{Cite web |url=http://www.birlasciencecentre.org/awards/birlaSciencePrizes/ |title=B. M. Birla Science Prize |date=2016 |publisher=B. M. Birla Science Centre}}</ref> Swarnajayanti Fellowship (2005) in Chemical Sciences,<ref name="Swarnajayanti Fellowships">{{Cite web |url=https://www.serc-dst.org/swarnajayanti.html |title=Swarnajayanti Fellowships}}</ref> and Bronze Medal (2005) of the [[Chemical Research Society of India]]. The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2010.<ref name="Chemical Sciences">{{cite web | url=http://www.csir.res.in/External/Heads/career/award/BPRIZE/CHEMICAL_SCIENCES.htm | title=Chemical Sciences | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=2016 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120912012851/http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/career/award/BPRIZE/CHEMICAL_SCIENCES.htm | archivedate=12 September 2012 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

He is an elected fellow of the [[Indian National Science Academy]] (INSA), [[Indian Academy of Sciences]], the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]], and a Senior Fellow of the Zukunftskolleg, [[University of Konstanz]], Germany.<ref name="Second stay of Sandeep Verma at the Zukunftskolleg">{{Cite web |url=https://www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskolleg/news/current-news/single-news/Second-stay-of-Sandeep-Verma-at-the-Zukunftskolleg/ |title=Second stay of Sandeep Verma at the Zukunftskolleg}}</ref> He was awarded Silver Medal (2017) of the [[Chemical Research Society of India]],<ref name="23rd CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry">{{Cite web |url=https://chm.iiserb.ac.in/conf/crsi/speakers.php |title=23rd CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry}}</ref> National Prize for Research on Interfaces between Chemistry and Biology (2017),<ref name="Research needs to be multi-disciplinary: Award-winning duo, Times of India">{{Cite web |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/research-needs-to-be-multi-disciplinary-award-winning-duo/articleshow/59010729.cms |title=Research needs to be multi-disciplinary: Award-winning duo, Times of India}}</ref> MRSI-ICSC Superconductivity & Materials Science Annual Prize (2018), [[Materials Research Society of India]],<ref name="MRSI Awards and Honours">{{Cite web |url=https://www.mrsi.org.in/awardshonours.php |title=MRSI Awards and Honours}}</ref> Goyal Prize (2019) in Chemical Sciences,<ref name="Dainik Bhaskar Jan 15, 2019">{{Cite web |url=https://www.bhaskar.com/harayana/kurukshetra/news/haryana-news-pro-lakshmikantam-prof-sandeep-verma-and-prof-goyal-award-for-umesh-anniversary-024023-3667150.html |title=Dainik Bhaskar Jan 15, 2019}}</ref> and more recently, the Distinguished Alumnus Award (2020), [[Banaras Hindu University]].<ref name="Twitter">{{cite tweet |user=VCofficeBHU |number=1218077536678182915 |date=17 January 2020 |title=Prof. Sandeep Verma, Secretary, SERB, New Delhi, receiving the #BHU Distinguished Alumnus Award. @bhupro}}</ref>

== Current affiliation ==
Sandeep Verma is currently serving as the Secretary, [[Science and Engineering Research Board]] (SERB) (http://www.serb.gov.in/home.php),[30] which is a statutory body established through an Act of Parliament, 2008, with a mandate to support basic research in emerging areas of Science & Engineering. As the premier national research funding agency, SERB is significantly responsible in raising the quality and global footprint of Indian science and engineering to the highest competitive standards in an accelerated mode, achieved through calibrated financial support for research and development activities, awards and honours and researcher mobility.

== See also ==
* [[Enzyme mimic]]
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