With more than 20 years of academic
and research experience along with 05 years of Industrial experience, he has
gathered expertise in drug repurposing, identification and screening of new
leads (drugs) for the management of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. He
has to his credit 07 patents which include 1 US and 1 European patent, more
than 200 Google Scholar articles (h-index: 27; i-10-index: 73) and 160 Scopus
Indexed articles. Presently he is supervising PhD work of 08 research scholars
and more than 20 PhD scholars have been awarded PhD under his direct
supervision. Besides, he has guided 52 PG dissertations. His team is providing
consultancy to the Industry and recently his team has received a consultancy
project entitled “Pharmacological evaluation of topical formulation for the
effective treatment of skin disorders in rats” from Emami Pharmaceutical Ltd”. He had been a Co-PI in MHRD; GoI sponsored
Centre of Excellence in Water and Energy and has successfully executed ICMR
project entitled “Pharmacophore Design, Database Mining and Biological
Evaluation of Anti-malarial Compounds”. He has collaboration/MoU with many
reputed research organizations/Pharmaceutical Companies like Zydus Life
Sciences, NIPER-R, CSIR-CDRI, LLRM Medical College etc. He is chairperson of
Institutional Animal Ethical Committee (Committee for Control and Supervision
of Experiments on Animals, GoI) and also an Assessor of NAAC and Pharmacy
Council of India with responsibility of evaluating the quality of teaching,
infrastructure and research at various institutions across India. He is life
member of Indian Science Congress Association. He has established an in-silico
lab, animal house facility and preclinical lab for conducting screening of
various herbal/synthetic compounds for the management of various ailments viz.
hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, asthma, COPD and Inflammatory
disorders. He has developed a new foundation course curriculum entitled “Human
Body and Health” which is offered at University level to all the students
across different disciplines. He has developed
E-content for the Pharmacy Courses employing different ICT tools to make
the course content interesting for better understanding of subjects. He has
provided mentorship to the students to present their ideas and innovation in
innovation Challenge organized by Atal Incubation Centre supported by Atal
Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog.