Dr. Subhash Chandra Taneja (born 1950-) obtained his masters degree in Organic Chemistry in 1971 and thereafter completed Ph.D. in Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India in 1975 under the guidance of Prof. H.P. Tiwari. He is scientist of eminence and presently working as Scientist 'G', Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (CSIR), Jammu. Dr. Taneja has over 100 publications in international journals, two book chapters and two review articles, 38 patents of which 14 are USP. He has also visited Institute of Organic Chemistry, Warsaw, Poland(1989-1990) under CSIR Scientist Exchange Programme. His areas of interest are chemistry and bioactivities of medicinal plants and generation of semi-synthetic libraries based on natural product scaffolds; design and synthesis of bioactive lead molecules in the area of inflammation, oncology, infectious diseases, immunomodulation; exploitation of microbial biodiversity for the identification newer sources of biocatalysts e.g. lipases, esterases, glucosidases, nitrilases, oxido-reductases etc. and development of new throughput screening techniques; synthesis and kinetic resolution of important dugs/intermediates using chemo-enzymatic methods; development of green methodologies for the synthesis of mono terpenes and perfumery molecules; development of new glycosylation methodologies; C- and Oglycosylation techniques; new synthetic protection-deprotection methodologies for carbohydrates, and their conversion to bioactive molecules and organic synthesis of natural products and bioactive molecules.
