Aks Rawat
National Botanical Research Institute
CSIR
India
Biography
Working as Scientist & Head of Pharmacognosy & Ethnopharmacology Division at CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow. He has made major contributions to Pharmacognosy of plant raw drugs/products, medicinal plant survey, chemotaxonomy, bioprospecting and natural product development. He has developed quality assurance parameters of more than 160 single crude drugs and also quality parameters of more than 30 Ayurvedic formulations and published more than 170 original research papers and filed 30 patents. 7 patented technologies have been transferred. Ten students got Ph.D. under his guidance and 40 M.Pharm theses he has supervised. He is recipient of ‘Vigyan Ratna’ Samman by the State Govt. for 2009-10. He is a Fellow of Society of Ethnobotanists, Fellow of Ethnopharmacology Society, India and Vice President of National Society of Ethnopharmacology and life member of other Scientific Societies. He has invited for delivering many lectures on his research area in different International seminars/conferences held in the Netherlands, Germany, Sri Lanka, Japan, China, Austria and USA etc.
Research Interest
Chemotaxonomy, Quality assurance, standardization and development of Ayurvedic/herbal drugs/ and .Bioprospection
