Associate Editor
Dr. S. Murugesan is currently Assistant Professor & Head, Department of Pharmacy, BITS, Pilani. He received his Ph. D degree in 2010 from BIT, Mesra, Ranchi. He has completed his M. Pharmacy in 2002 and B. Pharmacy in 1999 from BITS, Pilani and The T.N Dr. MGR Medical University, Chennai, respectively. He has been involved in teaching and research for the past 13 years. His areas of interest include, Instrumental Methods of Analysis, Medicinal Chemistry including Computer Aided Drug Design, Drug synthesis, Characterization and Evaluation against various infectious disorders like HIV, TB, Malaria, Leishmania, Bacteria and Fungi. He has published more than 56 research and review articles in peer reviewed journals of national and international repute. He also has presented more than 43 papers in national and international level conferences as well seminars. He is reviewer and editorial board member for more than 28 peer reviewed national / international journals. He is having various international / national collaborations for screening NCEs against various targets. He has successfully completed DST-SERB funded project and BITS sponsored Research Initiation Grant as Principal Investigator. He also successfully completed one full time Ph. D candidate and currently guiding one full time Ph. D scholar and two M. Pharm research students. Apart from this, he has guided several B. Pharm and M. Pharm students in their project courses. He is the life member of IPA, APTI, ISCA, ISCB, IAPST, IPGA as well as Tamilnadu State Pharmacy Council.
