Dr Nigel K. Jalsa
Senior Lecturer, Biological Chemistry
The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus
Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Telephone: 868-662-2002 Ext. 83546
Email: nigel.jalsa@sta.uwi.edu
Qualifications
- Ph.D., UWI - 2010
- BSc. First Class Honors (Chemistry and Biochemistry) UWI – 2005
Research Interests
- Development of catalysts with improved regio- and stereo-selectivity for various functional group transformations.
- Synthesis of non-natural oligosaccharide analogues and evaluation of their utility as probes; and prophylactic medical therapies employing the principles of Metabolic Oligosaccharide Engineering.
- Design and deployment of novel protecting groups which are regioselective, directing; robust to common synthetic transformation, but easily chemoselectively deprotected.
- Synthesis of Peptide Nucleic Acids (PNAs) and the study of their unique physi-cal, chemical and biological properties.
- Synthesis of novel cyclodextrin derivatives and evaluation of their drug-delivery capabilities.
