Paramjit Arora

Paramjit Arora

Paramjit Arora is Professor of Chemistry at New York University. He earned his BS in 1992, from University of California, Berkeley, where he was an Undergraduate Research Assistant with Professor Richard Mathies, 1988-1992. He then proceeded to earn his Ph.D. in 1999, studying under Professor James Nowick, 1993-1999, University of California, Irvine. He worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Peter Dervan, 1999-2002, at the California Institute of Technology.

Professor Arora’s research group applies principles of physical organic chemistry to molecular recognition and catalysis. They explore peptides and peptidomimetics to target biomolecular complexes and design organocatalysts for amide bond formation.

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