Faculty

Overview

The Faculty at Pharmacy Department can boast of an optimum mix of youth and experience. Faculty development programmes in the form of Intensive Teaching Workshops and specific Subject workshops are routinely conducted at the institute level to train young teachers. Several of our adjunct faculty members are located in leading pharmaceutical industries in India and abroad who guide the students during their practice school programme. The teachers are always striving towards keeping the students abreast of the latest advancements in pharmacy. Professionals from various Pharmacy fields are invited to deliver lectures to keep the students aware of the latest developments in the field and to have interaction with the teachers.

Faculty (On Campus)

Email addresses are followed by @pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in

Name	Designation	Research Area	Phone	E-mail	Website
Dr. R. Mahesh	Senior Professor	Medicinal Chemistry	5207	rmahesh	Personal Website
Dr. Hemant R. Jadhav	Professor	Pharmaceutical Chemistry	5506	hemantrj	Personal Website
Dr. S. Murugesan	Professor	Medicinal Chemistry	5717	murugesan	Personal Website
Dr. Rajeev Taliyan	Professor	Pharmacology	5704	rajeev.taliyan	Personal Website
Dr. Gaikwad Anil Bhanudas (Head of Department)	Professor	Pharmacology	5814/5206 (Direct) 5226 (Pharmacy office)	anil.gaikwad	Personal Website
Dr. Atish T Paul (Faculty In-Charge HD and Ph.D. admissions)	Associate Professor	Natural Product Chemistry	5648	atish.paul	Personal Website
Dr. Anil Jindal	Associate Professor	Pharmaceutics	5602	anil.jindal	Personal Website
Dr. Deepak Chitkara	Associate Professor	Pharmaceutics	5835	deepak.chitkara	Personal Website
Dr. Anupama Mittal	Associate Professor	Pharmaceutics	5708	anupama.mittal	Personal Website
Dr. Gautam Singhvi	Associate Professor	Pharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics	5810	gautam.singhvi	Personal Website
Dr. Aniruddha Roy	Associate Professor	Pharmaceutics, Drug Delivery	5643	aniruddha.roy	Personal Website
Dr. Murali Manohar Pandey	Associate Professor	Pharmaceutics	5847	pandeymm	Personal Website
Dr. Sandeep Sundriyal	Assistant Professor	Medicinal Chemistry	5824	sandeep.sundriyal	Personal Website
Dr. Richa Shrivastava	Assistant Professor	Pharmacology and Toxicology	5695	richa.shrivastava	Personal Website
Dr. Pragyanshu Khare	Assistant Professor	Pharmacology and Toxicology	5882	pragyanshu.khare	Personal Website

Faculty (Off Campus)

Name	Designation	Phone	E-mail append @pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in	Website
Dr. Bharathi R	Assistant Professor	9094322706	bharathir	Personal Website

Research Collaborations

GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
Dr. Reddy's Lab
Lupin Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Novartis India Ltd.
IPCA Labs Ltd.
Genpact Analysis
Orbees Medical.

Achievements

1. Dr.Gautam Singhvi and Mr. Vishal Girdhar have been granted a patent from Intellectual Property - India, Government of India for their invention ‘ Pro Lyotropic liquid crystals and method for preparing the same’ patent number 434275 for a term of 20 years.

2. Prof. Paul Atish Tulshiram, Dr. SNC Sridhar, Dr. Sengupta Pracheta, Dr. George Ginson have been granted patent from Intellectual Property - India, Government of India for their invention ‘ Indolyl Oxoacetamide Analogues as Potent Pancreatic Lipase Inhibitors ’ patent number 405368 for a term of 20 years.

3.  Prof. Paul Atish Tulshiram, Dr. Sengupta Pracheta and Prof. Sanjeev Kumar have been granted patent from Intellectual Property - India, Government of India for their invention ‘Larvicidal Formulation And a Process for the Preparation Thereof ’ patent number  407183 for a term of 20 years.

4. Prof.  Deepak Chitkara, Deepak K. Sahel, Dr. Kishan S. Italiya, Dr. Saurabh Sharma, Shruti Shah, Prof. Anupama Mittal have been granted patent from Intellectual Property - India, Government of India for their invention ‘A Drug Conjugate and method of preparation thereof   ’ patent number 393113 for a term of 20 years.

5. Prof. Anupama Mittal, Dr. Kishan S. Italiya, Samrat Mazumdar, Prof. Deepak Chitkara.  have been granted patent from Intellectual Property - India, Government of India for their invention ‘ Orally active nano-formulation of lisofylline and compositions thereof.’ patent number  395354 for a term of 20 years.

6. Prof. Anupama Mittal, Dr. Kishan S. Italiya, Samrat Mazumdar, Prof. Deepak Chitkara have been granted patent from Intellectual Property - India, Government of India for their invention ‘Surfactant-free, self-assembling micelles of fatty acid conjugated to hydrophilic drug and method for preparing the same.’ patent number  389948 for a term of 20 years.



7. Dr. Gautam Singhvi, Dr. Vamshi Krishna Rapalli, Ms. Tejashree Waghule, Ms. Srividya Gorantla, Dr. Sunil Kumar Dubey, Dr. Ranendra Narayan Saha have been granted patent from Intellectual Property - India, Government of India for their invention ‘Process for preparing lipid-based nano-carrier composition.’ patent number 396280 for a term of 20 years.

Details

Department of Pharmacy at BITS (Pilani) always had an excellent placement record with more than 90% placement of M.Pharmacy students in reputed companies like Dr. Reddys Laboratories, Lupin Research Park, Novartis, GlaxoSmithkline, Biocon, Pfizer, Pharmace, Torrent Pharma, etc

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