Sudeshna Roy, Ph.D

Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry

Sudeshna Roy is an Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy in the Department of BioMolecular Sciences at the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy. she is passionate about developing new therapeutics for the treatment of drug-resistant bacterial infections. She particularly focuses on tuberculosis, which is a major global health burden resulting in 1.5 million deaths globally every year. She and her team utilize an interdisciplinary approach to develop new antibacterials to combat the problems of antibiotic resistance that renders the clinically used antibiotics ineffective when treated for diseases caused by deadly bacteria.

Sudeshna Roy received her Bachelor of 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 at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Her dissertation focused on synthesizing complex natural products with potential use in cancer treatment. Sudeshna expanded her focus to a more applied field of medicinal chemistry and drug discovery during her postdoctoral tenure first at the University of Kansas and then at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During her postdoctoral tenure, she worked on different disease areas such as cardiovascular, cancer, and antiviral therapeutics development.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests:  Tuberculosis treatment outcomes in women and children