Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy
Email: roy@uthsc.edu
Postdoctoral Research Associate, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy; Advisor: Prof. Jeffrey Aubé
Postdoctoral Research Associate, KU School of Pharmacy; Advisor: Prof. Jeffrey Aubé
Ph.D., University of Missouri-St. Louis; Advisor: Prof. Christopher D. Spilling
M.Sc., University of Delhi, India
B.Sc., St. Stephen’s College Delhi, India
Sudeshna Roy received her Bachelor in Science in chemistry from St. Stephen’s College in India and a Master of Science in organic chemistry from the University of Delhi in India. She obtained her Ph.D. in organic chemistry under the supervision of Professor Christopher Spilling at the University of Missouri-St. Louis working on the total synthesis of complex natural products with anti-cancer activity. Her dissertation focused on “Studies toward Tetrahydrofuran-containing Natural Products: Total Synthesis of Amphidinolide C and Oxylipids”. Sudeshna expanded her focus to a more applied field of medicinal chemistry and drug discovery during her postdoctoral tenure under the mentorship of Professor Jeffrey Aubé, first at the University of Kansas and then at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During her postdoctoral tenure, she was instrumental in developing highly valuable small-molecule probes across different therapeutic areas, such as mitochondrial dysfunction, cancer, and infectious diseases.
She began her independent academic career in July 2017 as an Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy in the Department of BioMolecular Sciences at the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy.
In 2024, Dr. Roy joined the University of Tennessee Health Science Center as an Associate Professor.