Prof. Dr/ Sanjay Jachak
Dr. Sanjay Jachak is affiliated to Department of Pharmaceutical Education, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, where Dr. Sanjay Jachak is currently working as Professor and In-charge, Natural Products.
Dr. Sanjay Jachak has authored and co-authored several national and international publications and also working as a reviewer for reputed professional journals.
Dr. Sanjay Jachak made his mark in the scientific community with the contributions and widely recognition from honorable subject experts around the world.
Dr. Sanjay Jachak has received several awards for the contributions to the scientific community. Dr. Sanjay Jachak major research interest involves Screening of plant extracts and their isolates (using bioassay-directed fractionation) for COX-2/COX-1 inhibitory activity which may be helpful as the leads for development of safer anti-inflammatory drugs with minimum side effects; design and synthesis of COX-2 inhibitors based on natural products; evaluation of most bioactive compounds/lead molecules for anti-inflammatory activity in vivo; bioassay guided isolation and characterization of potential anti-mycobacterial natural products; antioxidant, and anti-diabetic natural products; standardization of herbal drugs and formulations.
He get several awards and honors as; PharmInnova, Ahmedabad: Best PhD thesis Award as Research Guide, May 2017,Most cited paper award, Bioorganic Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2005-2008.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
- Discovery of anti-inflammatory natural products empolying COX-2, microsomal Prostaglandin E Synthase-1 (mPGES-1), cytokines (TNF-α, IL-1α, IL-1β and IL-6) as targets.
- Discovery of natural product inhibitors of bacterial efflux pumps.
- Discovery of anti-diabetic and anti-obesity natural products
- Medicinal Chemistry and synthesis of natural products
- Phytopharmaceutical and Nutraceutical/Functional Food Development.
- Application of Novel Drug Delivery systems (Phytosomes, Nanoparticles, SMEDDS etc.) to herbals and herbal bioactives
- Standardization of herbal drugs and formulations, Phytochemical analysis
