Rajendra S Bhakuni
Central Institute of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants, Lucknow-226015, India
Biography
Dr RS Bhakuni is Professor in CSIR-CIMAP, Lucknow, a premier Natural Products Institute. He did his PhD degree from Kumaun University, Nainital (1987), worked as Research Associate on anticancer drug taxol in University of Florida (1993 –95). He has wide experience in basic and applied research of several medicinal plants, developed processing / pharmacopoeal monographs of artemisinin antimalarials. Received FICCI (2005), First Nina Saxena Excellence Technology (2007) and CSIR Technology (2012) awards for development and commercialization of Artemisia annua technology package. He has 73 research publications in reputed journals, 27 patents and supervised / trained 18 Ph D / post graduate students.
Abstract
Abstract : Antimalarial studies of novel artemisinin derivatives and its biotransformed products