Dr.Thota Ganesh
1515 Dickey Dr.
Emory University Chemistry Department
Atlanta, GA 30322
404-727-6689

tganesh@emory.edu

Past Virginia Tech Research Scientist

Dr. Thota Ganesh was born in the village of Ananthasagar (India) and obtained his M. Sc. and Ph. D degrees from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. After his postdoctoral studies on the synthesis of unusual α-amino acids and polyquinanes such as dodecahedrane at the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (India), and as catalytic asymmetric synthesis and total synthesis of natural products at the University of Durham (UK), he joined Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) as a senior post doctoral associate. As a research scientist at VT, he carried out the research on anti-cancer drugs TaxolTM and the epothilones. In the program he designed and synthesized several Taxol analogs that were bound more effectively to the tubulin receptor than Taxol, and his most recent investigations focused on the study of the interaction of epothilones with their tubulin receptor and the total synthesis of natural products isolated from marine organisms.

Category (Grants worked under): NIH, ICBG, NCI (Taxol grant)

Dr. Ganesh now has a new position at Emory University.  His new contact information at Emory University is to the left below his photograph.