He obtained his Ph.D. degree in the molecular biophysics unit at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. During the past several years, he has worked extensively on the design of peptide/peptidomimetic molecules to target proteins that are important in human diseases using computational and experimental techniques. He is the author and co-author of more than sixty publications. He has edited a special series in Methods in Molecular Biology, Drug Design and Discovery -Methods and Protocols.