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Nirav R. Kapadia

Biography

Nirav Kapadia, Ph.D., is Research Scientist at Adesis Inc., a CRO in New Castle, Delaware, US.
Before joining Adesis, Nirav was a postdoctoral research associate at the Structural Genomics
Consortium (SGC-UNC) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he worked on
the design and synthesis of small molecule kinase inhibitors for understudied kinases.
Nirav earned his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the City University of New York (CUNY)/Hunter
College (New York, NY) where he worked on the synthesis and evaluation of novel aporphine
alkaloids as CNS ligands. Nirav’s primary research interests include the design, synthesis
and evaluation of biologically relevant molecules.

Research Interest

Organic Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry