Ramesh M

University/Organization: University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)

Country: South Africa

 Biography

Dr. Ramesh M belongs to Komarapalayam, a devotional tri-city which is located at the junction of three rivers- Cauveri, Bhavani and Amritha in Tamilnadu, India. He finished his B. Pharmacy from Madurai Medical College (MMC), Madurai. and M. Pharmacy (Pharmaceutical Chemistry) from Punjabi University, Patiala. Further, he qualified NIPER-Ph.D. entrance examination as a first rank holder to undertake Ph.D. admission and obtained his Ph.D. in Medicinal chemistry from National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Mohali. During the tenure of his Ph.D., he was employed under the industrial project on drug metabolism which was sponsored by Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, USA. Then, he gained a post-doctoral research experience from University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), Durban. During his career, he was also employed as a faculty in Panjab University, Chandigarh and NIPER, Rae barely. He has a credit of 28 publications in high impact international journals. With this background of research, his career goal is to become an ideal medicinal chemist who is involved in the development of novel drug molecules for emerging therapeutic targets.

 Research Interest

Dr. Ramesh M includes research interests Drug metabolism; computer-aided drug discovery (molecular dynamics; pharmacophore modeling; QSAR; molecular docking; Ab initio quantum chemical calculations); sophisticated analytical techniques (HPLC; NMR; IR; LC-MS; etc.); synthetic approaches; in-vitro as well as in-vivo screening methodologies; etc