Gautam

Gautam joined us in September 2025 to support our deep learning work aimed to understand the role of codon usage bias in gene expression and protein output.

Biography

Gautam holds a BSc in Chemistry (Hons) from the University of Delhi and a Master's in Chemical Science from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore. During his Master's, he worked on designing a novel antagonist for the LTB4R1 receptor, a GPCR implicated in inflammation, using computational chemistry approaches alongside a directed message passing neural network. Following this, he joined the Department of Biochemistry at IISc Bangalore as a Project Associate, where he developed deep learning models to understand and model protein-ligand interactions.

Research positions

Research Assistant (Sep 2025 - now)
Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK

Qualifications

• MSc in Chemical Sciences from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, India, 2024
• BSc in Chemistry (Hons) from University of Delhi, India, 2022

Key publications

• Kathuri A, Gautam, Singh S, Goel S, Ratnani S, Dwivedi P, Haque S, Sharma SK. Novel Amino Derivatives and Carboxamides of Chromen‐2‐one: Synthesis, Antimicrobial Activity, and Molecular Docking Studies, Chemistry–An Asian Journal, 2025. [URL]