Subin Mary Zachariah

Biography

Dr. Subin Mary Zachariah joined as Lecturer in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry & Analysis at Amrita in September 2006. She was promoted as Assistant Professor in the year 2008. She received her Ph. D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Vinayaka Missions University, Salem in January 2014. She has her B.Pharm from Swamy Vivekananda College of Pharmacy, Erode and later obtained her M.Pharm in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from K.M.College of Pharmacy, Madurai. After obtaining her post graduation, she started her career in teaching in the year 2003. She worked one year in Bangalore as lecturer in Milind Institute of Pharmacy Bangalore and continued teaching in St. Joseph's college of Pharmacy Cherthala till 2006.Then she joined Amrita School of Pharmacy from 2006 September onwards. Dr. Subin Mary Zachariah's areas of interest broadly include phytochemistry isolation, characterisation and pharmacological studies of biologically active compounds from medicinal plants, optimization of synthetic methodology leading to development of small molecules as diverse therapeutic agents. Currently, she is involved with 4H-chromene derivatives as a privileged scaffold for various in vitro and in vivo screening methods. A series of synthetic chromenes have been synthesized by her students followed by antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antitubercular and anticancer compounds. Now, she is also actively involved in design and synthesis of new biologically active azetidinones.

Research Interest

Medicinal Chemistry & Drug Design, Phytochemistry