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Navneet Kaur

Visiting Lecturer of Chemistry

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Dr. Kaur is an educator and researcher with a medicinal, process, natural, synthetic, and analytical chemistry background. She completed her Ph.D. in synthesizing and analyzing Silver selective macrocycles followed by a postdoc at the University of Central Florida in synthesizing anticancer drugs and their selective delivery to different cancer cells. As a medicinal chemist, she has designed, synthesized, and evaluated many new chemical entities as anticancer, anti-diabetic, anti-metastatic, anti-tuberculosis, and anti-inflammatory bowel disease drugs using structure-activity relationship (SAR). She joined as a senior scientist at Mannkind Corporation, Danbury, Conn. in 2008. She worked on developing an insulin inhaler (now in the market known as Afrezza). As a process chemist, she lowered the cost of the drug to 50% for the company. She has worked on all process development steps including route selection, scouting, optimization, and tech transfer from the lab to the pilot plant. Her career in teaching started in 2014 at Dutchess Community College. Since then, she has taught at SUNY, New Paltz, Bard College, Marist, and Vassar College.

Outside of Marist, she has been involved in community service in many ways like mentoring at Dutchess Chamber of Commerce for their youth leadership program, counseling high school students to prepare for college, teaching native language, preparing young adults for different cultural activities at Mid-Hudson Sikh Cultural Society, and working as a volunteer in the Clinical Research Group at Vassar Brothers Medical Hospital as Clinical Research Coordinator. She has also served as a judge at the Dutchess County Science Fair. She has been a member of the American Chemical Society (ACS), and the American Association of Clinical Chemistry.


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Contact Information

Academic School

School of Science

Office

Donnelly 109A

Email

navneet.kaur@Marist.edu

Phone

(845) 575-3000 ext. 2247