Bachelor of Science, Chemistry, Bharathidasan University, India 1992 Master of Science, Chemistry, Bharathidasan University, India 1994 Ph.D., Bioorganic chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India 2002; Mentor: Prof. Susheel Durani Postdoctoral Fellow, Organic/Medicinal Chemistry, University of South Florida, Tampa 2002 - 2004; Mentor: Prof. Mark L. McLaughlin Postdoctoral Fellow, Peptide NMR/Peptide Synthesis, University of California, Los Angeles 2005 - 2006; Mentor: Prof. Joe Reeve / Dr. David Keire Research Fellow, Molecular Probe Synthesis and Imaging, Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 2006 - 2010; Mentor: Dr. Anna Moore