Network Pharmacology in Natural Products Drug Discovery

Authors

Dr. Devesh Tewari currently serving as Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, and In-charge UPLC facility at DPSRU, New Delhi. He also served as Visiting Scientist to the Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the prestigious Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. He is amongst Youngest Pharmacognosy teachers in the world featured in the list of "World Ranking of Top 2% Scientists� by Stanford University & Elsevier from last 4 years. He is a renowned researcher in the field of natural product drug discovery and formulation development with main focus in exploration of medicinal plants of the Himalayan region through Ethnopharmacology. Dr Devesh is a leading expert in the field of natural products drug discovery. In addition, he also served in the high level committees formed to clinically validate some natural products based drugs derived from grassroots innovations/ethnopharmacology. Having significant research achievements in the field of pharmacological validation and phytochemistry of western Himalayan plants. He received several important awards for plant drug research like Young Scientist Award by UCOST, Govt. of Uttarakhand, Best Paper Award by Ministry of AYUSH, Govt. of India, Best Concept Note Award by PCI, Govt. of India, Research Appreciation Award for 3 consecutive years from LPU, First, Second and Third Prize for Presentation of Research work including Monetary Awards for research and Hindi Writing. He is also a Member of the Pharmacopoeia Committee (PCIM&H), expert member for specific publications related to COVID-19 of Ministry of AYUSH and expert reviewer for grant proposals of international research councils. Dr Devesh is having research grants of Approx 40 Lakhs (4 Million) from DST, Government of India. Resource person/Expert and Presenting Author in prestigious international and national conferences, Editorial Board Member for some prestigious journals. Researcher profile: h-index: 43; i10-index: 92 and citations: >7600. Research interests: metabolomics, natural products drug discovery, ethnopharmacology, nutraceuticals, maternal health.

Dr. Anoop Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at Delhi Pharmaceutical Sciences & Research University (DPSRU), India. With a distinguished career, he has previously served as an Assistant Professor and Head at the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Raebareli, and as Head and Associate Professor at ISF College of Pharmacy, Moga, Punjab. Dr. Kumar has also held research positions at Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited and Translational Health Science Institute (THSTI). He earned his Ph.D. from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, as a DST INSPIRE Fellow. He is an Associate Editor for Health Sciences Review and Acta Neurologica Scandinavica. His research focuses on drug repurposing, clinical trial meta-analysis, pharmacoeconomics, and pharmacovigilance.