About

I assumed office in Swamy Vivekanandha College of Pharmacy and Medical Research Institute as Professor of Pharmacology and Director of Research since November 2008. I am coordinating the research in the college and also handling Pharmacognosy Pharmaceutics, and Pharmacology to PG and UG medical students.

Within the last five years, 4 years prior to this intuition I was in Centre for advanced research in Indian System of Medicine (CARISM) SASTRA University as Assistant Professor of Pharmacy, Director of drug testing laboratory, JRF and SRF.

During that period, I was looking after all the consultancy projects concerned with the safety and efficacy of herbal drugs and also the toxicological studies. Whatever instrumental and industry project undertook by the center, I have completed successfully as a co-investigator particularly on Leucoderma, Arthritis, and Coronary Heart disease sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India and M/s. Orchid Fine Pharmaceuticals, Chennai.

I have undergone short term training courses on GLP Up-keep of the animal house organized by DST, first winter school on nanotechnology organized by NIPER; FTIR training organized by Perkin Elmer Mumbai, HPLC training in Orchid Pharmaceutical and fine chemicals Chennai, and LC-MS-MS at Waters Bangalore.

I have published 47 research articles in national and international referred journals. I was the co-author of a textbook in Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics published by New Academic Publishers, New Delhi.

I got a Fellow of the Indian Association of Biomedical Scientists (FABMS) and External Examiner and question paper setter in various Universities. Peer Reviewer in National and International Journals.

I got Best Paper Award on ISO induced Myocardial infarction of Terminalia arjuna Phyto pharmaceuticals – in the Indian Scenario, AICTE sponsored programme at Periyar College of pharmacy, Trichy, January 2007 and delivered 15 invited lectures in various seminars and conferences.

I have a taken patent PCT on Rheumatoid arthritis and applied one more on Leucoderma.

I have organized the national level of the 31st Annual Conference of IABMS in the capacity of organizing secretary and national seminar on herbo-mineral preparations in the capacity of a Joint secretary. During the course of the last five years, I have participated in 40 numbers of symposia and workshops. I have obtained on two occasions the best paper presentation awards Dr. Yellapragada Subba Rao Memorial Award for the best research paper. I have guided 46 M.Pharm, 16 MBBS theses, and 5 Ph.D. theses.

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