Dr. Mushtaque A. S. Shaikh

Dr. Mushtaque A. S. Shaikh

Designation: Associate Professor and Head of Department in Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Date of Joining: 05/08/2017
Employee Code: VESCOP039
Employee ID: 26464
Email ID: mushtaque.shaikh@ves.ac.in
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 Discovery” Award at Focus INDIA-2006 Conference on Pharmaceutical R&D Efficiency – Integrating Strategic Partnership at Ramoji Film City, Hyderabad, INDIA.