Honors
2024 Portland State University’s 2024 Research Faculty Award
2021 Outstanding Reviewer for Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry in 2020
2020 Ten Years of Service to Portland State University
2018 Publons' Global Peer Review Award
2015 Outstanding Reviewer, European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
2014 CDRI Incentive Award for the publication in Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
2014 Highly Read Article of 2012, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
2008 CDRI Incentive Award for the publication in Organic Letters
2003 Best Outgoing Student, Osmania University, India
Fellowships
Senior Research Fellow (SRF):
Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), India. Fellowship Period: June 2006-May 2009
Junior Research Fellow (JRF):
Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), India. Fellowship Period: June 2004-May 2006
Scientific Appointments
Grants Reviewer
Ad hoc Reviewer, NIH-Drug Discovery and Molecular Pharmacology A (DMPA) Study Section, June 2025.
NIH-Drug Discovery and Molecular Pharmacology A (DMPA) Study Section, June, 2023.
NIH-ZRG1 DCAI-C (90)S -Topics in Drug Development and Molecular Pharmacology-A, December, 2023
Scholarship Application Review Committee Member, Portland State University, 2021-present
- ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
- ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters
- Analytical Methods
- Arabian Journal of Chemistry
- Biomedicines
- Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry
- Chemistry & Biodiversity
- ChemistrySelect
- Cogent Chemistry
- Cogent Food & Agriculture
- Drug Development Research
- European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
- Heteroatom Chemistry
- Heterocyclic Communications
- Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry
- Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
- Journal of Natural Products
- Journal of Sulfur Chemistry
- MedChemComm
- Molecules
- Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
- Phosphorus, Sulfur, and Silicon and the Related Elements
- Plants
- RSC Advances
- Synthesis and Reactivity in Inorganic, Metal-Organic, and Nano-Metal Chemistry
- Synthetic Communications
- Tetrahedron
- Tetrahedron Letters
News and Media Highlights
PSU Research Offers New Hope in the Global Fight Against Drug-Resistant Malaria - Portland State University
PSU's 2024 Research Faculty Awardee: Papireddy Kancharla - Portland State University
Portland State Researchers Receive $3.1M in Funding to Combat Malaria - Portland State University
NIH grants support the development of treatments for major diseases - Portland State University
Another One-Pill Malaria Cure Looks Promising - American Council on Science and Health
One pill cure for malaria? Portland State University found a candidate - Oregon Live