Dr. Mushtaque A. S. Shaikh




  • Dr.. Mushtaque A. S. Shaikh

    Designation: Associate Professor and Head of Department in Pharm. Chem. 

  • Educational Qualifications
    PhD (Tech) (Pharmaceutical Chemistry)
    M. S. Pharm (Medicinal Chemistry)
    B. Pharm


    Academic Affiliations

    •  Currently working as Associate Professor at VESCOP (2017 Onwards)
    •  Worked as Assistant Professor at Bombay College of Pharmacy (2007-2017)


    Professional Affiliations
    Pharmacy Council of India, All India Pharmacy teachers' Association

  • Teaching
    •  Pharmaceutical inorganic Chemistry
    •  Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry
    •  Biochemistry
    •  Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry
    •  Advanced Organic Chemistry
    •  Computer Aided Drug Design
    •  Chemistry of Natural Products
    •  Sepectral Structural Elucidation


  • Research
    Area Of Research
    •  Rational Drug Design (QM and MM)
    •  Synthesis and Characterization of drug candidates and pharmaceutical impurities
    •  Anti-Tubercular and antimalarial, PCOS







  • Publications

    4

  • Title of Grants Fetched: Academic Year Funding Agency Amount Sanctioned
    Design of antimalarials antifolate agents against mutant Plasmodium falciparum species resistant to pyrimethamine and cycloguanil. 2010-11 University of Mumbai Rs.20,000/-
    Rational Design, Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Novel Antitubercular Agents 2015-16 University of Mumbai Rs.22, 000/-
    Exploring and Exploiting antitubercular iron transport system for screening new leads 2018-19 University of Mumbai Rs.60, 000/-
    EigenValue ANalysiS (EVANS): an in silico tool to address pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics and toxicity issues 2016-17 Department of Biotechnology, Govt of India Rs.22,06,800/-
    Computational design of cyclodextrin derivatives for antitubercular drug delivery 2017-18 NVIDIA GPU Grant Rs.329,999/-
  • 1.  Best Research Paper [Coutinho et al], First National Research Convention, “Anveshan 2008”, May 2008.
    2. Received “Best Emerging Scientist in Drug DiscoveryAward at Focus INDIA-2006 Conference on Pharmaceutical R&D Efficiency – Integrating Strategic Partnership at Ramoji Film City, Hyderabad, INDIA.