Dr. Prashant Joshi is an accomplished researcher and academician in the field of medicinal chemistry, specializing in natural product-based drug discovery. He earned his B. Pharm. from Mahakal Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ujjain (India) in 2006, followed by an M. Pharm. from the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, RGPV Bhopal (India) in 2009. In 2018, he obtained his Ph.D. under the supervision of Dr. Sandip B. Bharate at CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Jammu (India), through the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), New Delhi, as a CSIR-Senior Research Fellow. Dr. Joshi has held academic positions in pharmaceutical and natural product chemistry departments at SPTM, NMIMS Shirpur. Currently, he serves as an Associate Professor at the School of Health Science and Technology, Dr. Vishwanath Karad MIT World Peace University, Pune, India. His research interests focus on medicinal chemistry and natural products, aiming to discover new therapeutics for multi-drug-resistant (MDR) cancers and bacterial infections. He has an impressive record of 32 research publications and 9 US patents granted in the field of natural source-based drug discovery.
Drug design and discovery in oncology
Infectious diseases and Multidrug resistance
Isolation and characterization of natural products
Molecular modeling and MD simulations