Bio

Naga Kiran Duggirala, is a former Ph.D student in the Crystal Engineering Research group at University of Limerick, supervised by Professor Mike Zaworotko. He started his Ph.D in 2011 at University of South Florida, Tampa, and transferred to University of Limerick in August 2014. He has 3 years of industrial experience in pharmaceutical pre-formulations. He has a broad research interest in solid-state characterization as well as formulation of drug substances. His  research interests include crystal engineering of ionic cocrystals, with a particular emphasis on ionic cocrystals of lithium and chloride salts. He is a co-author of four publications and co-inventor of four patent applications.

Publications

  1. Naga, K. Duggirala.., Perry, M.L., Almarsson, O. and Zaworotko, M.J., "Pharmaceutical Cocrystals: Along the Path to Improved Medicines", Chemical Communications, 2015, DOI: 10.1039/C5CC08216A
  2. Naga, K. Duggirala.; Kanniah, S. L.; Muppidi, V. K.; Thaimattam, R.; Devarakonda, S. Polytypism in Desvenlafaxine Succinate Monohydrate. CrystEngComm. 2009, 11, 989-992.
  3. Aitipamula, S.; Banerjee, R.; Naga, K. Duggirala.; Zaworotko, M. J. et. al. Polymorphs, Salts, and Cocrystals: What’s in a Name? Cryst. Growth Des. 2012, 12, 2147-2152
  4. Smith, A. J.; Kim, S. H.; Naga, K. Duggirala.; Jin, J.; Wojtas, L.; Ehrhart, J.; Giunta, B.; Tan, J.; Zaworotko, M. J.; Shytle, R. D. Improving Lithium Therapeutics by Crystal Engineering of Novel Ionic Cocrystals. Mol. Pharmaceutics. 2013, 10, 4728-4738.
  5. Naga. K. Duggirala.; Smith, A. J.; Wojtas, L.; Shytle, R. D.; Zaworotko, M. J. Physical Stability Enhancement and Pharmacokinetics of a Lithium Ionic Cocrystal with Glucose. Cryst. Growth Des. 2014.
  6. Naga, K. Duggirala, Geoffrey P. F. Wood, Addison Fischer, Lukasz Wojtas, Miranda L. Perry, Michael J. Zaworotko, Hydrogen Bond Hierarchy: Persistent Phenol...Chloride Hydrogen Bonds in the Presence of Carboxcylic Acid Moieties, Cryst. Growth Des., 2015.

Patents

  1. Surya Narayana, D.; Ram, T.; Vamsee Krishna, M.; Sundara Lakshmi, K.; Naga Kiran, D. Linezolid Co-crystals. International publication number. WO 2009/140466 A3.
  2. Rajasekhar, K.; Munaswamy, N.; Srividya, R.; Subbareddy, P.; Azeezulla Baig, M.; Naga Kiran, D. Amorphous pemetrexed disodium. Publication number. US 2011/0196154 A1. Publication date: Aug 11th 2011.
  3. Vamsee Krishna, M.; Srinivasulu, R.; Naga Kiran, D.; Ramakrishnan, S.; Arjun Kumar, T. Process for preparation of celecoxib crystalline form. Publication number. US 2011/0213159 A1. Publication date: September 1st 2011.
  4. Srinivasulu, R.; Naga Kiran, D.; Vamsi Krishna, M.; Rajasekhar, K.; Veerender, M.; Amaraendhar, M.; Venkata Rao, B.; Naresh, V.; Rama Seshagiri Rao, P. Lenalidomide solvates and processes. Publication number: US 2013/0172563 A1, Publication date: July 4th 2013.

B.Sc. Acharya Nagarjuna University, India. M.Sc. Andhra University, India.