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Jagat C. Borah, Ph.D.

National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

ORCID iD 0000-0001-6876-2659
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Currently Professor at National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Guwahati, Assam, India.

Education and Training: MSc in Chemistry (Organic), PhD in Total Synthesis of Bioactive Natural Products (CSIR-NEIST, Jorhat, Assam, India), Postdoc in Chemical Biology (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, USA).

Research Area: Traditional Medicine, Natural Products, Synthetic Organic and Medicinal Chemistry, Chemical Biology, Pharmacology and Phytopharmaceutical Drug Development.

Taking a clue of the global trends and opportunities in plant based medicines, in India, Drug Controller General of India (DCGI of CDSCO) promulgated Phytopharmaceutical drug and published in the Gazette Notification in the year 2015. Our group is working on preclinical evaluation of selected medicinal plants based on Indian Systems of Medicine (ISM) used for the treatment of Diabetes and Diabetic Nephropathy with an aimed for the Development of Phytopharmaceutical Drug.

Specialism: Extraction, isolation and structure elucidation of pure molecules from natural sources by using different chromatographic and spectroscopic techniques, qualitative and quantitative analysis of natural products by HPLC, preparation of enriched and standardized fraction based on marker compounds, as well as interpretation of NMR spectra (1H, 13C, HSQC, COSY, HMBC, NOESY etc), LC-MS/MS, GC-MS, FTIR for structure elucidation of small molecules. In vitro and in vivo studies for development of small molecules / phytopharmaceuticals for the management of Type 2 diabetes and diabetic nephropathy.

Employment

  • National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research Professor
    2024 - Present
  • Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology Professor
    2024 - 2024
  • Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology Associate Professor
    2018 - 2023
  • North East Institute of Science and Technology CSIR Principal Scientist
    2016 - 2018
  • Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development Scientist
    2012 - 2016
  • Phyto Biotech Pvt. Ltd. Principal Scientist
    2012 - 2012
  • GBP Incubation Centre Sr. Research Scientist
    2009 - 2011
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    2006 - 2008
  • Chemgen Pharam Int. Pvt. Ltd. Research Scientist
    2005 - 2006

Education

  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Postdoctoral Research
    2006 - 2008
  • CSIR - North East Institute of Science and Technology Ph.D.
    2001 - 2006

Projects & Funding

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