{"id":2198,"date":"2025-03-25T18:38:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T17:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portale2.unime.it\/biosymp\/?page_id=2198"},"modified":"2025-04-12T12:24:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T10:24:19","slug":"neil-koorbanally","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/portale2.unime.it\/biosymp\/people\/neil-koorbanally\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Koorbanally"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2198\" class=\"elementor elementor-2198\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-71e8918 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"71e8918\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column 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He has over 25 years of experience in the fields of Natural Products and Synthetic Organic Chemistry. He works on the synthesis of hybrid organic molecules for the pharmaceutical industry, with a recent interest in <\/span><span lang=\"en-ZA\">quinolines, quinoxalines and benzimidazoles, supervising the synthesis and bioactivity of various sets of compounds, several of which were seen to have better activity than known drugs.<\/span> <span lang=\"en-ZA\">His current interest is on the design, synthesis, antibacterial, antitubercular and anticancer activity of conjugate molecules, combining two or more organic frameworks, or classes of compounds, into a single small molecule. Professor Korbanally <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">obtained his <\/span><span lang=\"en-ZA\">Ph.D. at UKZN in 2001 and was the 2005 Colenso Scholar at St. John&#8217;s College, University of Cambridge. 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