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Asit ChakrabortiProfessor and Head, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research Dr. Chakraborti did M. Sc. (Organic Chemistry) from the University of Burdwan, West Bengal Ph. D. (Synthetic Organic Chemistry) from IACS, Kolkata. He was post-doctoral research fellow in the Chemistry Department, Clemson Univ, South Carolina, USA during 1985-1987 and in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacology, Purdue Univ, USA in the laboratory of Prof. Mark Cushman during 1987-1989. He joined the Department of Chemistry, Burdwan Univ as senior lecturer in 1990 and moved to NIPER, S. A. S. Nagar as a founder faculty as Assistant Professor. He became Assoc Prof. in 1999 and is serving NIPER as Professor and Head of the Department of Medicinal Chemistry since 2001. He has guided 26 Ph. D. and 81 Masters students, wrote 3 book chapters, filed 36 patents, and published 136 papers in international journals with 4630 citation and an h-index of 42. He is the recipient of Ranbaxy Research Award in Pharmaceutical Sciences, ISMAS Eminent Mass Spectroscopic Award, CRSI Medal, University Gold Medal, and Bardhaman Sammilani gold Medal. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK and Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore. |
G SastryScientist and Head, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology Dr. G. Narahari Sastry obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Osmania University and Ph.D. from University of Hyderabad. After PDF stays in Israel and Switzerland, he started his independent research career in 1997 at Pondicherry University. Dr. Sastry’s research interests are computational chemistry and computer aided drug design. Several of his computational predictions have seen experimental realization. He has organized and participated in many conferences, and delivered about 175 invited/plenary lectures. He has published about 215 papers which received over 3100 citations. |
Anamik ShahVice Chancellor, Gujarat Vidyapith Professor Dr. Anamik Shah is working as a senior most faculty member at Department of Chemistry, Saurashtra University. The Department of Chemistry when established in 1979 under the stewardship of Professor V. M. Thakor, he was the first Ph.D. student from the department. |
Ashok VaidyaResearch Director, Kasturba Health Society Prof. Ashok D B Vaidya, MD, PhD, a physician-scientist, is known as the father of Reverse Pharmacology. Over half-a-century of career in drug research/ discovery/development, he has pioneered phase 1 to 4 clinical trials with new drugs. He has trained many scientists in drug research. He was the Merck International Fellow in Clinical Pharmacology at Yale. He retired as the Regional Medical Director of Ciba. Currently, he is the Research Director of Kasturba Health Society and Adjunct Professor at Saurashtra and Drexel University. He has played a major role in guiding drug research, as a consultant/expert at WHO, CSIR, ICMR, DBT, AYUSH, Universities and Industry. |
