Iktedar Mahdi
Department of Pharmacy - Drug Sciences
University of Bari "A. Moro"
Via E. Orabona, 4
70125 Bari (Italy)
My Background
I am a Bangladeshi. I did my bachelor's and master's in chemistry in Bangladesh. Then I pursued my second master's in organic chemistry at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). My project was to synthesize pyrrolopyrimidine derivatives to inhibit CSF-1R protein which might cause cancer, tumor, and other inflammatory disease. After my MSc thesis, I also worked at NTNU as a technical assistant for 1 year.
My Project
In GreenDigiPharma, I will utilize flow chemistry and flash chemistry to synthesize organic compounds via organolithium intermediate, more specifically cyclopropenyllithium compounds, focusing also on scale up methodologies.