Dr. S. Murugesan joined in the Department of pharmacy, BITS, Pilani in the year 2010 as Assistant Professor. Dr S. Murugesan pursued his Ph.D from BIT, Mesra (2009) in the area of synthetic medicinal chemistry, M. Pharm from BITS, Pilani (2002) and B. Pharm from The TN Dr. MGR Medical University, Chennai (1999).
His areas of interest are Computer Aided Drug Design, Synthetic Medicinal Chemistry and New analytical method development and validation by using various instrumental analytical techniques.
Dr S. Murugesan has more than 200 research papers and more than 100 poster presentation in various national and international repute in his credit. He has also supervised five Ph. D students, project work for several M. Pharm and B. Pharm Students. He is also a life member of Indian Pharmaceutical Association (IPA), TamilNadu State Pharmacy Council, The Indian Science Congress Association, Association
of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India (APTI), Indian
Society of Chemists and Biologists (ISCB), The
Indian Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists and Technologists (IAPST), Indian
Pharmacy Graduates Association (IPGA), Indian
Society for Technical Education (ISTE), Indian
Council of Chemist (ICC), Society
for Ethnopharmacology (SFE)
.