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Vinod Tiwari

Indian Institute of Technology BHU

ORCID iD 0000-0002-8491-2255
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Dr. Vinod Tiwari is currently working as Associate Professor of Pharmacology in the Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering & Technology, Indian Institute of Technology (B.H.U.), Varanasi. Dr. Tiwari has completed his B.Pharm from H.N.B. Garhwal University, Srinagar, Uttarakhand in the year 2004 followed by M. Pharm in Pharmacology from N.D.M.V.P. College of Pharmacy, Nashik, University of Pune in the year 2007. After completing his M.Pharm, Dr. Tiwari has worked in Nicholas Piramal Research Centre, Mumbai where he contributed immensely in the drug development projects related to pain, inflammation & arthritis. In the year 2008, he joined University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS), Panjab University, Chandigarh for pursuing his doctoral studies. After completing his PhD from Panjab University, Chandigarh in the year 2012 he moved to United States to carry out postdoctoral research at The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. Before joining Indian Institute of Technology (B.H.U.), Varanasi in April 2018, Dr. Tiwari also worked as Assistant Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology at National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research (NIPER)-Ahmedabad from Aug. 2016 to March 2018.
Dr. Vinod Tiwari is working in the field of pharmacology & neuroscience from past more than 15 years. Dr. Tiwari’s research interest is focused on behavioral and molecular neuroscience dedicated to understanding the various neurodegenerative disorders and the signaling pathway involved so that better and safer drug candidates can be developed by targeting the disrupted neuro-machinery. His postdoc research work with Prof. Srinivasa N. Raja, Director of Pain research at The Johns Hopkins University, USA was focused on dissecting the key neuronal circuitries involved in pain relief and drug abuse so that better analgesic drugs which are devoid of drug addiction can be developed. Dr. Tiwari also explored the role of mu-delta heterodimers in peripheral opioid analgesia and tolerance and the finding from this work was recently published in journal PAIN (Tiwari et al., 2020).
Dr. Tiwari contributed immensely in the field of neuroscience with more than 51 research publications, 14 review articles and 4 book chapters in peer reviewed high impact international journals including in Nature Neuroscience, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), The Journal of Clinical Investigation, Neuron, Anesthesiology, PAIN, International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology etc (Till May 2021) His research work is rapidly being cited all over the world with more than 2800 citations and an h–index of 29. He is currently working on different collaborative projects with investigators from Johns Hopkins University, Washington University School of Medicine at St. Louis, USA and with pharmaceutical industries. His lab is well funded with grants and funding by SERB, ICMR, MHRD and industrial consultancy projects. Dr. Tiwari has delivered several invited research talks and presented his research findings in more than 40 national and international scientific meetings. He is also serving as editorial and reviewer board member in many leading journals in the field of pain and neuroscience.

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  • Indian Institute of Technology BHU Associate Professor
    2018 - Present

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