Faculty
Faculty

Faculty list is sorted in alphabetically order.

Associate Professors
Abhijeet S. Kate Ph.D.

Abhijeet S. Kate, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

E-mail :abhijeetk[at]niperahm[dot]ac[dot]in,abhijeetk[at]niperahm[dot]res[dot]in

Research Interest : Implementation of various LC-MS based dereplication strategies to discover novel scaffolds from biological sources such as marine and terrestrial bacteria, fungi and plants. Downstream process optimization for large scale isolation of Natural Products. Fingerprinting of extracts by LC-UV-MS in Natural Products based drug discovery program .Read More

Akshay Srivastava, PhD

Akshay Srivastava, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Ramalingaswami fellow

E-mail :akshay.srivastava[at]niperahm[dot]ac[dot]in,akshay.srivastava[at]niperahm[dot]res[dot]in

Research Interest : Dr. Akshay is a trained biomaterial and tissue engineering researcher by utilizing basic concept of life science in developing biomaterial based medical devices for tissue regeneration, cell separation, drug/gene delivery and fabrication of in vitro disease model. The following are the key research contributions made in last 10 years .Read More

Amit Kumar Pandey, PhD

Amit Kumar Pandey, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

E-mail :amit[dot]pandey[at]niperahm[dot]res[dot]in

Research Interest : Understanding Wnt Pathway and LncRNAs interaction for the identification of novel therapeutic targets in triple-negative breast cancers. Unraveling the molecular mechanism of lncRNAs involvement in Glioblastoma. Identifying the role of P53 regulated long non-coding RNAs (LncRNAs) by Crispr/Cas9 in ovarian cancer.Read More

Dr. Bichismita Sahu

Bichismita Sahu, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

E-mail :bichismita[at]niperahm[dot]ac[dot]in, bichismita[at]niperahm[dot]res[dot]in

Research Interest :De novo design and synthesis of peptides, peptoids and nucleic acid based molecules therapeutic and diagnostic applications. Development stimuli-responsive peptide-polymeric scaffolds for biomedical engineering applications. Designing and synthesis of molecular scaffolds and conjugates for Cancer, Metabolic and Neurological Disorder. Development of industrial viable process for API.Read More

Pallab Bhattacharya,Ph.D

Pallab Bhattacharya, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

E-mail :pallab.bhattacharya[at]niperahm[dot]ac[dot]in,pallab.bhattacharya[at]niperahm[dot]res[dot]in

Research Interest : Safety and efficacy study of intra-arterial delivery of mesenchymal stem cells in small and large animal model of ischemic stroke and related mechanisms of neuroprotection. Regulatory RNA mediated mesenchymal stem cell engineering and nanoparticle based drug delivery to the brain .Read More

Rakesh Kumar Tekade, Ph. D

Rakesh Kumar Tekade, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

E-mail :rakeshtekade[at]niperahm[dot]ac[dot]in,rakeshtekade[at]niperahm[dot]res[dot]in

Research Interest :Dr Rakesh K Tekade, Assistant Professor of the Department of Pharmaceutics, investigates the design, development and characterization of targeted nanotechnology based formulations for the site specific delivery of therapeutic Drugs, siRNA, microRNA, plasmids, and peptide for the treatment of cancer, arthritis, wound, spinal cord injury.Read More

Dr.Ravi Shah, Ph. D

Ravi Shah, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

E-mail :ravi.shah[at]niperahm[dot]ac[dot]in,ravi.shah[at]niperahm[dot]res[dot]in

Research Interests: Characterization of complex APIs, Formulations, and Biosimilars; biopolymers and complex generic formulations towards sameness strategy for regulatory submission ,In-vitro release profiling through advance dissolution methods, LC-MS and NMR based characterization of impurities, drug-drug/ drug-excipientinteraction products, degradation products.Read More

Assistant Professors
Aakanchha Jain

Aakanchha Jain, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

E-mail :aakanchha.jain[at]niperahm[dot]ac[dot]in,aakanchha.jain[at]niperahm[dot]res[dot]in

Research Interests: Anticancer drug delivery, Role of caspase in cancer treatment, Colon targeting, Development of novel delivery systems of proteins and drugs for different diseases, Topical & Transdermal Drug delivery.Read More


Dr.Amit Mandoli

Amit Mandoli, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

E-mail :amitmandoli[at]niperahm[dot]ac[dot]in,amitmandoli[at]niperahm[dot]res[dot]in

Research Interests: Dr. Amit Mandoli research focuses on using high-throughput assays such as Next generation sequencing (NGS), CRISPR-Cas9 screen, Genomics & Functional Genomics, and Mass-spec based Proteomics to identify unique molecular processes that are involved in cancer, and translate the fundamental insights gained through his research into diagnostics and drug discovery processes.Read More


Amit Shard

Amit Shard, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

E-mail :amit[at]niperahm[dot]ac[dot]in,amit[at]niperahm[dot]res[dot]in

Research Interest : Synthesis of BAX activating compounds, Microwave assisted organic synthesis, Novel and sustainable protocols for bioactive molecules, Drug designing and development, Synthesis of neuro-protective molecules Read More

Derajram Benival, Ph. D

Derajram Benival, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

E-mail :derajram[at]niperahm[dot]ac[dot]in,derajram[at]niperahm[dot]res[dot]in

Research Interest : Physico-chemical characterization of small molecules, peptides, proteins and phytopharmaceuticals Development of oral, nasal and injectable formulations Exploring new approaches in dosage form development to meet unmet medical needs.Read More

Dr. Dinesh Kumar

Dinesh Kumar, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor and Ramanujan fellow

E-mail :dineshk[at]niperahm[dot]ac[dot]in, dineshk[at]niperahm[dot]res[dot]in

Research Interest :Development of new strategies and concepts in synthetic organic chemistry to address challenging problems in biomedical research, particularly anti-cancer drug discovery .Read More

Dr.Hemant Kumar

Hemant Kumar, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

E-mail :hemant[at]niperahm[dot]ac[dot]in,hemant[at]niperahm[dot]res[dot]in

Research Interests: The death of the endothelial cell continues throughout the acute phase of the spinal cord injury (SCI), predominantly at the injury epicenter. My major research area is to find the target or NCEs for endothelial protection/stabilization within penumbral microvasculature and preserving the blood-spinal cord barrier integrity.Read More


Dr.Hemant Kumar

Kalpna Garkhal, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

E-mail :kalpna[dot]garkhal[at]niperahm[dot]res[dot]in

Research Interests: Kalpna Garkhal is an Assistant Professor in Pharmaceutics Department at National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (Ahmedabad). She is a formulation scientist involved in teaching postgraduate and doctoral students, and carrying out advance formulation development research in addressing formulation related challenges.Read More


Dr. Pinaki Sengupta, Ph. D

Pinaki Sengupta, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

E-mail :pinakis[at]niperahm[dot]ac[dot]in,pinakis[at]niperahm[dot]res[dot]in

Research Interests: The primary research area of Dr. Sengupta includes pharmacokinetic, toxicokinetic, metabolic profiling of chemical entities in discovery and formulation development phase ;Read More

Dr. Ravindra Taware

Ravindra Taware, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

E-mail :ravindra.taware[at]niperahm[dot]ac[dot]in,ravindra.taware[at]niperahm[dot]res[dot]in

Research Interests: Bio prospecting of endophytic fungi for sustainable production of novel bioactive natural products.
Implementation of genomic, proteomics and metabolomic approaches for the strain prioritization for isolation of bioactive natural products.
Biotransformation of natural products to obtain chemically hard to synthesize derivatives with enhanced selectivity and bioactivity.
Cancer Metabolomics;Read More

Nadiminti Rajesh Kumar

Nadiminti Rajesh Kumar, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

E-mail :rajesh.nadiminti[at]niperahm[dot]ac[dot]in,rajesh.nadiminti[at]niperahm[dot]res[dot]in

Research Interests: Rajesh is an experienced Pharmaceutical Sales and Marketing Professional with more than 2 years of experience in India specific roles. Rajesh has extensive market research experience across diverse therapy areas like Diabetology, Cardiology, Malnutrition, Sickle cell anaemia. Rajesh has participated in many seminars and conferences in India and has more than 10 publications. He has worked on various disease consulting projects with Indian, multinational companies and government organisations etc. Read More

Nitish Sharma

Nitish Sharma, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

E-mail :nitish.sharma[at]niperahm[dot]ac[dot]in,nitish.sharma[at]niperahm[dot]res[dot]in

Research Interests: Extensive characterization of complex injectable products for faciselitating generics development, Impurity profiling of drug product, Synthetic peptide characterization, drug-excipient interaction degradation products. Read More

Dr. Satyasheel Sharma

Satyasheel Sharma, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

E-mail :satyasheel.sharma[at]niperahm[dot]ac[dot]in,satyasheel.sharma[at]niperahm[dot]res[dot]in

Research Interest :Our Group is interested in blending the strategies of synthetic organic chemistry along with the medicinal aspects of natural products for the development of New Chemical Entities (NCEs) against Cancer and Neurodegenerative disorders. Total Synthesis and semi synthesis of bioactive Natural products and its structural modification via C-H functionalization and C-C coupling reactions. Design and construction of fluorine containing scaffolds of pharmaceutical importance via C-H Bond activation. Incorporation of Fluorine into the bioactive natural product scaffolds and its biological evaluation. Peripheral functionalization of porphyrin ring systems for photodynamic therapy.Read More

Siddheshwar Chauthe, Ph. D

Siddheshwar Chauthe, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

E-mail :Siddheshwar.chauthe[at]niperahm[dot]ac[dot]in,siddheshwar.chauthe[at]niperahm[dot]res[dot]in

Research Interest : Bioassay-guided isolation, structure elucidation and synthetic modification of bioactive compounds from medicinal plants. Development of analytical methods for standardization of polyherbal formulations using hyphenated techniques. To establish Q-markers for the quality standards of traditional Ayurvedic /herbal medicines.

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Suveen Kumar, Ph.D

Suveen Kumar, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

E-mail :suveen[dot]kumar[at]niperahm[dot]res[dot]in

Research Interest : Biosensors, Microfluidics diagnostics devices, Electrokinetics integrated microfluidics device fabrication, Lab-on-chip/Point of Care devices fabrication, Non-invasive/Partial Invasive diagnosis.

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Dr. Vinod Tiwari, Ph.D

Vinod Tiwari, Ph.D

Assistant Professor

E-mail :tiwari.vinod[at]niperahm[dot]ac[dot]in

Research Interests :Dr. Vinod Tiwari, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology at NIPER Ahmedabad, is working in the field of pharmacology & neuroscience from past 12 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. Read More


Prof.Larry Benowitz

Prof.Larry Benowitz

Professor of Surgery and Ophthalmology

Institute: Harvard Medical School, USA

Prof.Dileep R Yavagal

Prof.Dileep R Yavagal

Professor of Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Institute: Miller School of Medicine, USA

Prof. Srinivasa N. Raja

Prof. Srinivasa N. Raja

Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine

Institute :The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA

Dr.Mukul Jain

Dr. Mukul Jain

Senior Vice President

Institute: Zydus Research Centre, India

Prof.Abhay Pandit

Prof.Abhay Pandit

Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Institute: NUI, Galway, Ireland

Prof. Philp M. Hansbro

Prof. Philp M. Hansbro

Professor

Institute: The University of Newcastle, Australia

Prof. Antony D’Emanuele

Prof. Antony D’Emanuele

Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Institute: De Montfort University, UK

Dr Anurag Saxena

Dr Anurag Saxena

Assistant Professor

Institute: Indian Institute of Public Health

Prof N Ravichandran

Prof N Ravichandran

Retired Professor

Institute: Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Dr Vishal Jani

Dr Vishal Jani

Assistant Professor

Institute: Indian Institute of Public Health

Ms. Esha Shah

Ms. Esha Shah

Corporate trainer, Tedx Speaker

Ms. Shikha Bhagawat

Ms. Shikha Bhagawat

Chartered Accountant

Institute: Gujarat National Law University, Gandhi Nagar

Dr Dhyani Mehta

Dr Dhyani Mehta

Assistant Professor

Institute: Nirma University

Dr D V Ramana

Dr D V Ramana

Vice President, Data Scientist

Institute: Wissen Infotech, Hyderabad

Prof. Anil Kumar Gupta

Prof. Anil Kumar Gupta

Professor of Management Education

Institute: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (Retired).

Prof.Danith H. Ly

Prof.Danith H. Ly

Director

Institute: Institute for Biomolecular Design and Discovery, Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.

Prof. Amrita Cheema

Prof. Amrita Cheema

Professor of Oncology and Biochemistry
Associate Director: Center for Metabolomic Studies (GUMC)
Co-Director – Proteomics and Metabolomics Shared Resource (GUMC)

Institute: Deptt of Oncology and Biochemistry Center for Metabolomic Studies, Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC), Washington DC.

Dr. Dhaval Shah

Dr. Dhaval Shah

Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Institute: School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

Prof.Hajime Hirase

Prof. Hajime Hirase

Professor

Institute: Center for Translational Neuromedicine, University of Copenhagen,Denmark.

Prof.Anne-Marie Rodriguez

Prof. Anne-Marie Rodriguez

Professor

Institute: INSERM,France.

Dr. Prasad Shastri

Dr. Prasad Shastri

Professor

Institute: University of Freiburg,Germany.

Mr. Koushik Nayak

Mr. Koushik Nayak

Director of Sales & business Development

Institute: Aker Bio Sciences.

Ms Rama Durga

Ms Rama Durga

General Manager, Marketing

Institute: Aurobindo Pharma.

Mr O P Singh

Mr O P Singh

President Sales & Marketing

Institute: Cadilla Healthcare.

Mr Soham Wagh

Mr Soham Wagh

Senior Marketing Manager

Institute: GSK, Mumbai.

Mr Rahul Singh Meena

Mr Rahul Singh Meena

Manager – Forecasting

Institute: Novartis.

Mr Virendra

Mr Virendra

CEO

Institute: AdamNext.

Mr Sudheendra Kulkarni

Mr Sudheendra Kulkarni

MD

Institute: Ferring India.

Mr Venkatesh Karthikeyan

Mr Venkatesh Karthikeyan

Vice President - Marketing

Institute: Dr Reddys Labs.

Mr Bharat Gajuvarthi

Mr Bharat Gajuvarthi

CEO

Institute: Pragmatica.

Mr Debashish Roy

Mr Debashish Roy

Vice President – HR

Institute: FDC India Ltd.

Mr Ashish Ambasta

Mr Ashish Ambasta

Managing Director - Life Sciences

Institute: Accenture Life Sciences.

Mr.Ameesh Masurekar

Mr.Ameesh Masurekar

Director of Sales & business Development

Institute: AIOCD Awacs.

Mr Mansoor

Mr Mansoor

General Manager – Sales

Institute: Astrazeneca.

Dr Akhilesh Mishra

Dr Akhilesh Mishra

Director – HR

Institute: Bharat Serums & Vaccines India Ltd.

Mr Keshav Poojary

Mr Keshav Poojary

Director – Sales

Institute: Biocon.

Mr Selva Kumar

Mr Selva Kumar

Director – Operations

Institute: Cognizant Technology Solutions.

Mr Vyom Kesar

Mr Vyom Kesar

Manager - Business Analytics

Institute: Novartis.

Ms. Shravani

Ms. Shravani

Manager - Market Access

Institute: Novartis.

Mr. Vivek Padgoankar

Mr. Vivek Padgoankar

Former Director

Institute: OPPI.

Dr. Santosh Kumar Behera

Santosh Kumar Behera, Ph.D.

Scientist Grade-II

E-mail :santosh.behera[at]niperahm[dot]ac[dot]in

Research Interest :To explore the gut microbiota in newly diagnosed diabetic patients, I have performed NGS analysis. Presently, I am involved in various aspects of health informatics such as an In-silico analysis of various inhibitors using combinatorial tools for development and identification of potential inhibitors as anti-cancer and anti-viral, therapeutics. Taking the advent computational chemistry in drug discovery process has emphasized the development of new technologies for design, synthesis, screening and decoding of combinatorial library of drugs.Read More

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