Professional Activities

Professional Career

Position held	Affiliation	Duration
Assistant Professor	Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, P.O. BOX 2457, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.	01.03.2012 to Till date

Academic Experience:

Supervising one M. Pharma student for his thesis work in Dept. of Pharmaceutics, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Research Experience: (7.1 years)

1. Presently working as Co-Principle investigator on ongoing NPST-KACST project “Nanosized vesicular-based transdermal therapeutic system for the management of hypertension”
2. Successfully completed NPST funded project entitled “Molecular Mechanisms Involved in the Modulation of Major Drug Metabolizing Enzymes and Transporters by Common Herbal Remedies of Saudi Arabia.” (01.03.2012 to 01.06.2013)
3. Successfully completed CSIR funded project as Senior Research Fellow (File #09/591(0084)/2009-EMR-I, CSIR, India) (01-04-2009 to 30-12-2011)
4. Successfully completed AICTE funded project (Grant # 8023/RID/BOR/RPS-157/2006-07) entitled “Development and evaluation of novel penetration enhancer based transdermal drug delivery systems for management of hypertension”, (04-12-2007 to 31-3-2009)
5. M. Pharm. dissertation on “Transdermal delivery of valsartan: preliminary skin permeation studies, formulation development and evaluation” (2006-2007).

Editorial Board Member of following esteemed scientific journals.

1. EC Pharmaceutical Science journal
2. Journal of Drug Delivery and Therapeutics
3. Journal of Nanomedicine & Nanotechnology, OMICS publishing groups.
4. Journal of Nanomedicine Research.
5. Journal of Pharmaceutics and Drug Development, Annex Publishers
6. SOJ Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
7. Austin Journal of Analytical & Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Austin publishing group.
8. American Journal of Nanomaterials”, Science and Education Publishing.
9. Recent Patents in Drug Delivery & Formulation”, Bentham Publishers.
10. Current Drug Discovery Technologies”, Bentham Publishers.
11. WebmedCentral plus Pharmaceutical Sciences”.
12. Nanomaterials and Nanosciences”, Herbert Open Access Journals.
13. Pharmaceutical Technology & Drug Research”, Herbert Open Access Journals.

Reviewer Board Member of following high ranked scientific journals

• Journal of Chromatographic Science,
• Journal of Liposome Research,
• International Journal of Pharmaceutics,
• Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery,
• International Journal of Biological Macromolecules,
• Separation Science and Technology,
• Current Drug Delivery,
• Drug Delivery,
• Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences,
• Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine,
• Drug research.

Professional activities:

• Attended a workshop on "U.S. Pharmacopeial Updates" at college of pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on 28th May, 2012.
• Participated in the workshop on "Effective use of spectroscopy" organized by KSU research chair in laser diagnosis of cancers. on 4th April 2012 at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• Participated as delegate in 62nd Indian Pharmaceutical congress held at Manipal University, Manipal from 17th to 19th December 2010.
• Participated in AICTE sponsored “National seminar on emerging trends in pharmaceutical sciences” on 21-22nd March, 2009 at Faculty of Pharmacy Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi.
• Participated as delegate in 61st Indian Pharmaceutical congress held at Nirma University, Ahmedabad from 11th to 13th December 2009.
• Participated as volunteer in 60th Indian Pharmaceutical congress held at Netaji Subhas Institute of technology, Dwarka, New Delhi University from 12th- 14th December 2008.
• Participated in professional development program organized by IPA, Delhi branch on 6th September in 2008.
• Participated in International day against drug abuse in 2006 organized by Deptt. Of social welfare Govt. of NCT of Delhi & UNICEF.
• Attended one day 17th Round table conference on Herbal Medicine in New Millennium conducted by Ranbaxy science foundation on 25th March 2006.
• Participated in 44th National pharmacy week conducted by IPA, Delhi branch in 2005.
• Participated in Polio eradication program conducted by Indian National Polio pulse committee and Rotary International in 2002.
• Presented seminar on “Role of p-glycoprotein” in M. Pharm 1st semester, Deptt. of Pharmaceutics, Hamdard University.
• Attended different seminars and awarded as best seminar coordinator, conducted by Deptt. of Pharmaceutics, Hamdard University.

Pharmaceutical Profile:

• Assisted in teaching pharmaceutics to B. Pharm 1st , 3rd and D. Pharm 2nd year students in the faculty during M. Pharm and Ph. D
• Instrumental Knowledge- Working knowledge of handling of instrument like UPLC MS/MS, HPLC, UV, DSC spectrophotometers, Automated Transdermal Diffusion Cell Sampling System (SFDC 6, LOGAN Instruments Corp., NJ, USA), Noninvasive Blood Pressure system (NIBP 200A, Biopac system, Inc. CA, USA), Brookfield Rheometer (Brookfield Engineering Laboratories Inc., Middleboro, MA, USA)
• IT skills- Extensive knowledge of MS Window, MS office, chromatography software (Shimadzu`s Class VP, Agilent’s EZChrom Elite™), Statistical software Design Expert® (Version 7.1.6, Stat-Ease Inc., Minneapolis, MN), GRAPHPAD INSTAT 3 software and chemistry software packages (ChemDraw, ChemSketch).
• Registered Pharmacist, Delhi Pharmacy Council, Registration no. 015066 Did 500 hrs training as Apprentice Pharmacist from primary health centre. New Delhi