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Rachana

Research areas: Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Plant Science · Medicinal Plant Research · Alzheimer's disease research and treatments · Advanced Drug Delivery Systems

ORCID iD 0000-0002-8686-0372
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Dr Rachana, Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology has been working at JIIT since June 2009. She was working at SPTM, NMIMS University, Mumbai, before joining JIIT Noida.

She post graduated in Biotechnology from IIT Roorkee in 1998 and achieved her doctorate from IIT Bombay in 2006. She has qualified NET-LS and GATE (Topper in Kanpur zone and 4th rank in India)in Life Sciences. She has been the recipient of DBT fellowship during her masters and JRF and research fellowship, from MHRD during her PhD. For her PhD she worked for designing a therapy for Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). She has two Indian patents, two text books and have several international and national articles to her credit.

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
She has been working to establish the mechanism of action of the herbal products in the field of diabetes, ashthma, respiratory infections, skin cancer, neurological disorders and COVID 19. Her group is also trying to work upon medicinal herbs for their preventive and therapeutic potential in case of tobacco smoke induced toxic conditions. The herbs which are majorly worked upon by the group are: Salaciaoblonga, Adhatoda vasica, Ginkgo biloba, Pirorhizakurroa, Punicagranatum, Musa paradisiacl, Citrus limetta, Rose, Amaltas, Marigold, Jasmine, Kaner etc. Her goal is to establish the mechanism of action of the “Old Great Indian Herbal medicines so that they would be globally accepted. She has got grant from AYUSH, NMPB, Govt of India on Scientific Documentation and digitization for selected Indian medicinal plants for antidiabetic and other activities” in 2009.

Dr Rachana is a life time member of Indian Pharmaceutical Association, Biotechnology Society of India, Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Association of India and Mumbai Haematology Group. She remained the member of American College of Clinical Pharmacology (ACCP) for ~4 years. She was an Advisor on the South Asian Chapter of ACCP’s Student Outreach Committee (SOC) and IPA-SF Edufest.

Dr Rachana has been actively writing in scientific magazines such as CII, Ingredients of South Asia (international), Pharmabizz, Ingredient South Asia and Biospectrum.

AWARDS
First prize for poster presentation at Conference at MS baroda, 2000
First prize for Anti-TB campaign from team at SPTM, NMIMS, Mumbai, among the 50 Schools of pharmacy, across the country on 9 July, 2009, by IPA-SF congress-2009, at Bangalore.
Appreciated and awarded for excellence as a faculty, by School of Pharmacy and Technology Management, SVKM’s NMIMS University, Mumbai, 2009
IWAA Women Achievers Award by Anchor media for contribution in the field of education, 4th march, 2017
Golden global award for Health and Education for outstanding contribution in the field of Biotechnology, from Bellemie, at Islamic Cultural Centre New Delhi, India, 7 September 2019, IDMA approved
INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS
S. Agarwal, V. Tyagi, M. Agarwal, A. Pant, H. Kaur, Rachana, M. Singh, “Controllable transdermal drug delivery of Theobroma cacao extract based polymeric hydrogel against dermal microbial and oxidative damage” Food and Nutrition Sciences, vol. 10:10, pp. 1212-1235, Oct 2019. ISSN Print: 2157-944X, Impact factor 0.97, (Web of Sc., JCR, Pubmed, Google Scholar)
Dipali. Verma, Sunita Gupta, R. Saxena, P. Kaur, Rachana R, S. Srivastava and V. Gupta, “Allosteric inhibition and kinetic characterization of KlebsiellapneumoniaeCysE: An emerging drug target”. International Journal of Biological macromolecules. Volume 151, 15May 2020, Pages 1240-1249 [Impact factor: 5.162] ISSN: 0141-8130 (Medline, Scopus, Elsevier, SCI/SJR)
Manisha Singh, Surinder P. Singh, P.K. Dubey, Rachana R, Shalini Mani, Deepshikha Yadav, Mugdha Agarwal, Shriya Agarwal, Vinayak Agarwal and Harleen Kaur, “Advent of Proteomic Tools forDiagnostic Biomarker Analysis in Alzheimer’s Disease”, Current Protein and Peptide Science, 15 June, 2020, Vol. 21, No. 00 pp1-13 (Bentham Science) ISSN: 1875-5550 (Online), (Web of science, Scopus, Google Scholar, Scimago) Impact 2.5.
Ayushi Bhagat and Rachana, “Bromhexine: a comprehensive review”. International journal of Biological and Medical Research, 9, 3, pp6455-6459, 2018.
Rachana, M. Singh and T. Gupta, “Topical Application of Melaleuca Alternifolia for Skin Cancer and Other Conditions” Cancer therapy & Oncology International Journal, 8, 2, pp01-04, December, 2017.
M. Singh, R. Kaur, S. P Singh and Rachana,“Intranasal Drug Delivery- New Concept of Therapeutic Implications for Effective Treatment of CNS Disorders”,International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 8,8, pp1000-1013, Jan 2017.
M. Singh, S. P. Singh and R. Rachana, “Development, Characterization and Cytotoxicity Evaluation of Gingko biloba extract (EGB761) loaded Microemulsion for Intranasal Application”, Journal of Applied Pharmaceutical Science, 7, 1, pp024-034, Jan 2017.
R Kaur, R. Rajput, P. Nag, S.Kumar, Rachana, M. Singh, “Synthesis, characterization and evaluation of anti

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