Arunabha Ray's Biography

Arunabha Ray, Professor/Head, University of Delhi

Prof. Arunabha Ray is Head, Dept. of Pharmacology at Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Delhi.

Prof. Ray is a medical graduate from the Calcutta University, with MD and PhD degrees in Pharmacology from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Delhi, and subsequently, he had postdoctoral training/experience in the USA and Canada.

He has 33 years of teaching and research experience in basic and clinical pharmacology at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and is actively involved in the teaching and supervising biomedical research activities of postgraduate as well as doctoral students in pharmacology and toxicology of the University of Delhi. He is prolific researcher and is actively pursuing extramurally funded projects involving clinical and pre-clinical research in the area of herbal drugs and their interactions with modern medicines.

He has more than 150 research publications and also authored/edited three books in his areas of expertise. He has been invited faculty to several international and national conferences to deliver talks in his area of expertise, and is member of several technical/scientific advisory committees/boards in India and abroad. He has been the recipient of several awards and honors from apex scientific and professional bodies for his contributions in the area of medical teaching and research.