Pankaj Kumar Singh

Dr. Pankaj Kumar Singh, Ph.D., is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics at the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research-Hyderabad (NIPER-Hyderabad) India. He has received his Doctorate inPharmaceutics from CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India. He has been closely associated with several scientific and socially impactful projects funded by various prestigious bodies like TSCOST-DBT, CCRUM, DST, ICMR and Department of Pharmaceuticals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Government of India.

He has gained experience of over a decade in the field of teaching and research related to pharmaceuticals. He has more than 10 years of experience in working on targeted drug delivery systems for various hydrophobic and hydrophilic drug candidates. He has gained experience in the development of peptide-based liposomal delivery and ligand anchored delivery systems for the treatment of various life-threatening diseases, especially cancer and visceral leishmaniasis. He has published more than 85 quality papers along with reviews in journals of high repute and has a cumulative impact factor of more than 500, h-index 24, i10 index 44 and 1675 citations. He has edited 5 books, co-authored 40 book chapters and filed 7 patents with 2 patents granted. He is also involved in technology transfer of one product.

He has also bagged several accolades like the “CSIR-Research Associate” award, “CSIR-Senior Research Fellowship” award, two times travel grant award and financial Assistance and Incentive award for research paper publication. He has been keenly involved and associated with allied works say posters, abstracts, symposiums, invited talks, training and workshop and other research activities. He holds the membership of several nationally and internationally recognized bodies of repute like the Indian Pharma Education Society, Indian Science Congress Association and Bioencapsulation Research Group. He is a peer reviewer of various international Journals and publishers. He has guided 26 M.S. students for their dissertations/research projects and 11 Ph.D. students continuing their research work under his guidance. He has rich research and teaching experience in the formulation and development of various novel and targeted drug delivery systems.