Prof. (Dr.) Mrs. Amita Verma

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Professor

amita.verma@shuats.edu.in

Additional Responsibilities

Head, Department of Pharmaceutical Science
Associate Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences

Contact Details

amita.verma@shuats.edu.in

Department of Pharmaceutical Science

Educational Details

Doctorate

Ph.D

Hamdard University,
New Delhi

Graduated in 2007

PG

M. Pharma

Hamdard University,
New Delhi

Graduated in 2004

UG

B. Pharma

Garhwal University,
Srinagar

Graduated in 2001

Professional Summary

Amita Verma is working as Professor and principal invetigator of Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Research Laboratory, SHUATS. She has received her M.Pharm and PhD degree from Hamdard University, New Delhi. She is Faculty Advisor of ACS International Student Chapter, SHUATS and actively involved in organizing curricular and extracurricular activities. She has received prestigious National Institute of Health (NIH, US) fellowship on anti-HIV drug discovery. She is recipient of Senior chemist award and Chemistry festival grant by American Chemical Society (ACS). She has national and international research collaboration with South Ural State University (Russia), Chapman University (US), Eastern Michigan University (US) for discovery of drugs against diabetes, cancer, HIV, neurodisorder etc. She has published more than 100 international research papers in various repute journals and supervised 14 Ph.D scholars. She got more than 20 international award by various agencies as ESMO, ACS, MDS, ISPPD etc from US, Canada, Australia, Spain, United kingdom, singapore, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia etc.

Area of Specialization

Pharmaceutical chemistry

Expertise

Synthesis of heterocyclic compounds by one pot synthesis, using catalyst and conventional synthesis.
Synthesis of nanoparticles using plant extracts.
Isolation of Natural products by column chromatography
In-vivo screening as anticancer, antidiabetic and wound healing.

Projects

1. Design and Evaluation of Long-Acting Tenofovir-Fatty Acid Conjugates as anti-HIV-1 agents, funded by Natonal Institute of Health (NIH) US, 2018

2. Development of novel controlled release nano-ointment of gentamicin loaded graphene for the treatment of topical bacterial infection, funded by Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi (2011-2015) as Co-PI.

3. Synthesis and antimicrobial activity of hybrids of Bezotriazole-triazole funded by SHIATS, Allahabad for one year (2013-2014) as PI.

Publications

Find papers at Google Scholar link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Ono7YJcAAAAJ

Teaching Experience

total 15 years Teaching experiance

Other

Fellowships/ Awards/ Honours
2019	Awarded American Chemical Society (ACS) Chemistry Festival grant 2019.
2018	Awarded Travel grant by SERB, Department of Sciences and Technology, New Delhi to present paper at Joint Prague-Weizmann winter school on drug discovery at Israel, 3-7 Dec 2018
2018	Awarded fellowship by National Institute of Health (NIH) USA to do research in the field on anti-HIV drug discovery.
2018	Awarded Travel grant by American Chemical Society (ACS), USA to present a paper in Pittcon conference, Feb26-March1, Florida, USA,
2017	Awarded Travel grant by European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO), Switzerland present paper in ESMO-ASIA 2017 conference, 17-19 Nov, 2017 in Singapore
2017	Awarded grant by American Chemical Society (ACS), USA to conduct a “seminar on Chemical Lab safety & Security” and “workshop on Science Communication”, 2017
2017	Awarded Travel grant by American Chemical Society (ACS), USA to attend workshop on global code of ethics (GCCE) Melbourne, Australia, 18-22 July, 2017.
2017	Awarded Travel grant to attend the 21st International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders, Vancouver, Canada, June 4 - 8, 2017.
2017	Awarded Travel grant to present a paper in 2nd Asia Pacific AIDS & Co-infections Conference (APACC), Hongkong 1-3 June, 2017.
2017	Awarded Travel grant to attend Korean society of Nephrology (KSN) Conference, Seol, South Korea, 18-21 May 2017.
2016	Awarded travel grant by Taiwan International congress of Parkinson’s disease and movement disorders 2017, Taipei, Taiwan
2016	Awarded Travel grant by European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO), Switzerland, ESMO-ASIA 2016, 16-19 Dec, 2016
2016	Partial travel grant to attend Australasian Viral Hepatitis 2016 conference 29 September to 1^st October 2016 in Gold Coast, Australia
2015	Awarded Travel grant from travel grant committee of 10^th International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases, June 26-30, 2015 in Glasgow, UK.
2015	Awarded Travel grant by Department of Sciences and Technology, New Delhi, 2015
2015	International training programme on “Leadership and career development for women scientists/technologists” sponsored by DST, New Delhi in partnership with the (IUSSTF) and CoACh International, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA, Aug, 2015.
2015	Marquis Who’s Who in the world, USA, 2015.
2015	EACS (European AIDS Clinical society, Belgium) scholarship, 2015
2014	Summer Research Fellowship by Indian academy of Sciences (IAS) - Indian National Science (INSA)-National Academy of Science India (NASI)
2002	AICTE fellowship during M.Pharm (2002-2004).

Synergistic Activities

2019-till now	Research coordinator, SIHAS, SHUATS
2018-till now	Nominee of Government of India, CPCSEA, New Delhi
2017-till now	Coordinator of American Chemical Society (ACS) Chemistry week celebration at Prayagraj, India
2014-till now	Coordinator of BEST Academy, SHUATS, Prayagraj, India
2009 -2016	Head of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, SHUATS
2009-2017	Convener of Pharmaceutical Society, Faculty of Health Sciences, SHUATS
2009-till now	Member, Academic council, SHUATS, Prayagraj, India
2012-13	Member, Tuesday hour, SHUATS, Prayagraj, India
2013-18	Member of Institutional animal ethical committee, SHUATS, Prayagraj, India
2016-2018	Program coordinator of Department of Pharmaceutical sciences, FHF, SHUATS

Published chapter in ACS book symposium series:

Contis ET, Ashiq U, Massey S , Shahid S , Verma A, Responsible Conduct in Chemical Safety and Security Practices in South Asia in book Responsible Conduct in Chemistry Research and Practice: Global Perspectives, 11, 157–170, DOI: 10.1021/bk-2018-1288.ch011, ACS Symposium Series, Vol. 1288.

Professional Membership

The Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India, India.
International Society for Infectious Diseases, USA
International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society USA.
American Chemical Society, USA.
International Society for Infectious Disease, USA.
Royal Society of Chemistry, UK.
European Society of Medical oncology (ESMO)
European Respiratory Society (ERS)

Reviewer

Scientific report
Medicinal chemistry Research
Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy
RCS advances
AAPS PharmSciTech
Journal of Medicinal Plant Research
Natural Product Research
African Journal of Food Sciences
African journal of pharmacy and pharmacology

Programmes organized:

1) Coordinator- National seminar on ‘Health and Environment: Issues and Challenges’, may 6-7, 2010, SHIATS-Deemed to be University, Allahabad.

2) Convenor- National Pharmacy Week, 20-27 Nov, 2011.

3) Co-convenor- 1st Dr. Sam Higginbottom memorial lecture Series-28th Feb, 2011.

4) Convenor and organizing secretary- workshop on ‘computational biology and drug design’, 21st Sep, 2012.

5) Co-convenor- 2nd Dr. Sam Higginbottom memorial lecture Series-2012, 9th Nov, 2012.

6) Convenor- National Pharmacy week-2012 on ‘Pharmacist in public Health’, 25 Nov-2 Dec, 2012.

7) Convenor- National Pharmacy week-2013 on ‘Pharmacist: A Health Care Professionals’, 21-22 Nov, 2013.

8) Convenor- National conference on “Proto Science, Health & Well Being: Global Concern & Approach” 7-8 march, 2013.

9) Convenor- National Pharmacy week-2014, on ‘Responsible use of Medicines: Role of Pharmacist’, 21-22 Nov, 2014.

10) Convenor- Dr. Sam Higginbottom memorial International lecture Series on Science day, 28 Feb 2015.

11) Convenor- National Pharmacy Week, 20-27 Nov, 2015

12) Convenor- Dr. Sam Higginbottom memorial international lecture Series on Science Day, 28th Feb, 2016.

13) Convenor- National Pharmacy Week, 22-29 Nov, 2016

14) Convenor- American Chemical Society (ACS) sponsored Seminar on Chemical Lab Safety and Security, Nov 2017.

15) Convenor- ACS sponsored workshop on Effective Science Communication on Science day, Feb 2017.

16) Convenor- National Pharmacy Week, 22-29 Nov 2017.

17) Coordinator- Workshop on effective writing skill on Science day, 28 Feb 2018.

18) Coordinator- Pharmacist day celebration seminar on use of safe medication, 25 Sep 2018.

19) Coordinator- National Chemistry week celebration at various school and colleges, 20-26 Oct 2018.

20) Coordinator- National Pharmacy Week, 22-29 Nov 2018.

21) Coordinator – Science Day celebration on 28 Feb 2019

22) Coordinator- World Pharmacist Day -2019 on 25 September, 2019

23) Coordinator- National Chemistry week-2019 on 20-26 Oct 2019

24) Coordinator- ACS sponsored Chemistry Festival, VALCHEM-2019 on 11 November 2019

25) Coordinator- Free Diabetes Camp on World Diabetes Day- 2019 on 14 November 2019

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