Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Biography

Dr. Ramasare Prasad completed his graduation in chemistry (Hons) and doctorate in molecular biology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, 1993. During year 1994 he joins Prof Wilmont, Parasite Molecular Biology Unit, at University of Georgia, Athens, Atlanta, USA, as Post-Doctoral Fellow. He joined as Faculty in department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India, since 1997 (Assistant Professor and Associate Professor) and Professor since 2012 onwards and also had been Head of department from January 2012 to Feb 2015. Presently he is the professor and leader of the of Molecular biology and Proteomics unit and has published 60 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of various journals of repute. He has nearly 30 years of research and teaching experience, had executed several sponsored projects from DST, DBT, CSIR, UGC etc., supervised 21 Ph.D. and more than 54 UG and PG dissertations and presenting supervising 7 PhD students.

Research Interest

• Molecular Biology, Infectious diseases, Genomics & Proteomics of Fungal Biofilm; MDR, anti-biofilm agents, drug discovery, Immunodominant antigens for diagnostic and vaccine. • Molecular study of Abiotic Stress: expression and characterization of genes involved, in osmotic stress & anti-oxidative enzymes from plants, functional validation by RNAi technology. • Bio-therapeutics and Bio-Pharmaceutics: antimicrobial, anti-oxidative and immuno-modulatory, molecules from plants, coated Nano-particles development & evaluation in vitro & in vivo assays.