Meet the PRL Team !
Advancing Herbal Medicine through Innovation and Research
Project Investigator
Dr. Alakh Niranjan Sahu
Associate Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering & Technology, IIT (BHU), Varanasi, India, has over 20 years of experience specializing in drug delivery systems, translational therapeutics, herbal drug development and multifaceted experience in teaching, research, and administration. The esteemed research group in the Phytomedicine Research Laboratory at the IIT (BHU) is engaged in the formulation & development of herbal drugs, cosmeceuticals, nutraceutical formulations, standardization, bioactivity-guided fractionation, isolation, Pharmacognosy evaluation, quality control of indigenous medicinal herbs, analytical method development & validation, and pharmacological assessment.
Phytomedicine Research Lab Members
Ph.D. Scholar
Pradeep Kumar Patel
I specialize in Cell Biology, Phytopharmaceuticals, and Nanomedicine Formulation. I explore cellular processes and develop plant-based therapeutic compounds. My work focuses on designing nanocarriers for targeted drug delivery. Integrating natural products with nanotechnology, I aim to enhance therapeutic efficacy and safety.
SOKI DAEME MALANG
My area of interest is in developing, optimizing and characterizing herbal formulations, as well as studying their pharmacological properties which involves creating new herbal formulations analyzing their chemical makeup, and evaluating their therapeutic effects through preclinical and clinical studies, aiming to validate and enhance the use of traditional herbal medicine.
Pooja Kathait
I am engaged in the comprehensive field of phytopharmaceutical development. My expertise spans the extraction and standardization of medicinal plant compounds, as well as the quality control and pharmacological evaluation of these substances for the treatment of various diseases.
Ankur shetty
I am currently researching natural therapies for NASH (Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis) using network pharmacology, docking, and QSAR methods. I am particularly interested in formulations and consider myself technically proficient, passionate about exploring innovative approaches in therapeutic development.
Dr. Debadatta Mohapatra
I am actively involved in the formulation development, quality control, standardization, pharmacological evaluation of herbal drugs for nutraceutical, cosmeceutical, and therapeutical benefits. I have core competency in Quality-by-Design (QbD)-based formulation development and characterization of single drug & multicomponent mixture (phytopharmaceuticals), their in-vitro and in-vivo biological activity evaluation.
Dr. Singh Shreya Hariawadhsingh
My research focuses on tracing the anti-cancer mechanisms of medicinal plants via an integrated strategy of network pharmacology and experimental studies, herbal drug development, quality control, formulation, and development.
