Dr. Gutta is a tech advisor in the firm's Biotechnology and Chemistry Practice Group. His background as a multidisciplinary chemist includes research expertise that focused on studying inorganic structures, surfaces, nanoparticles, organic molecules, reaction mechanisms, peptides and enzyme-ligand interactions.
Prior to joining Townsend, Dr. Gutta was a postdoctoral fellow in physical organic chemistry (Professor Dean J. Tantillo's group) at the University of California, Davis, Department of Chemistry. He received his Ph.D. under the direction of Professor Roald Hoffmann at Cornell University's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.
Speaking Engagements
Molecular Orbital Studies of Potential Latent Image Formation on Silver Bromide Surfaces. Poster presented at the International Congress of Imaging Science (ICIS’02), Tokyo, Japan. May 2002. Pradeep Gutta and Roald Hoffmann.
Theoretical Studies on Farnesyl cation Cyclization: Pathways to Pentalenene and Diversions to other Natural Products. Lecture presented at the 231st ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, GA. March 2006. Pradeep Gutta and Dean J. Tantillo.