Academic qualifications:

Positions held/holding:

• March, 2018-March, 2019: Humboldt Visiting Scientist at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
• December, 2016-till date: Assistant Professor, Chemistry, University of Calcutta
• September, 2015-December, 2016: Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral fellow at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
• June, 2013-June, 2015: Postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
• November, 2012: Visiting scholar in the group of Prof. T. Pradeep at IIT, Chennai

Research Interests:

• High-throughput synthesis of lipidoid, peptoid and polymers using combinatorial Chemistry
• High-throughput screening towards gene transfection
• Self-immolative polymer synthesis, self-assembly study and drug delivery applications
• Surface patterning and functionalization for material as well as biological applications

Research guidance:

• 4 PhD students are currently pursuing their PhD under my guidance
• 2 students are pursuing their short term project work
• 5 students completed their master thesis

publications:

Journals:

• M. Benz, M. R. Molla, A. Böser, A. Rosenfeld, P. A. Levkin* (2019). Marrying chemistry with biology by combining on-chip solution-based combinatorial synthesis and cellular screening. Nat. Commun., 10, 2879. (I. F. 11.88)
• S. A. Ali, S. K. Mondal, T. Das, S. K. Manna, A. Bera, D. Dafadar, S. Naskar, M. R. Molla* and S. Samanta. (2019): One-pot tandem cyclisation to pyrrolo[1,2-a][1,4]- benzodiazepines: a modified approach to the Pictet–Spengler reaction. Org. & Biomol. Chem. (DOI: 10.1039/c9ob00448c) (I. F. 3.56)
• Mondal, S., Saha, M., Ghosh, M., Santra, M., Khan, M.A., Saha, K. D., Molla, M. R.* (2019): Programmed Supramolecular Nanoassemblies: Enhanced Serum Stability and CellSpecific Triggered Release of Anti-Cancer Drugs. Nanoscale Advance, 1, 1571. (I.F. Pending)
• Molla, M. R*., Böser, A., Rana, A., Schwarz, K., Levkin, P. A*. (2018): One-Pot Parallel Synthesis of Lipid Library via Thiolactone Ring Opening and Screening for Gene Delivery. Bioconjugate Chem. 29, 992-999. (I.F. 4.818)
• Molla, M. R., Rangadurai, P., Antony, L., Swaminathan, S., de Pablo, J.J., Thayumanavan, S. (2018): Dynamic actuation of glassy polymersomes through isomerization of a single azobenzene unit at the block copolymer interface. Nat. Chem.10, 659. (I.F. 26.20 )