[7] In 2019, he was awarded the Infosys Prize in Physical Sciences for his seminal work in the chemical synthesis of small molecules and nanomaterials for biomedical applications.
[8] Born on 29 May 1970 in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, G. Mugesh completed his graduate studies in chemistry at the University of Madras in 1990.
[9] Remaining at the institute, he did his post doctoral studies there till 2000 and moved to continue his studies at the laboratories of de:Wolf-Walther du Mont of Brunswick University of Technology and de:Helmut Sies of University of Düsseldorf on an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship till 2001.
[1] Mugesh is known to have carried out extensive researches on the chemistry of thyroid hormone metabolism[11] and his work has assisted in widening the understanding of organic/inorganic synthesis and enzyme mimetic studies.
[10] He is credited with the development of therapeutic protocols for endothelial dysfunction and neurodegenerative diseases and with notable work on β-lactamase-based antibiotic resistance.