Gaurang Shah
Professor
Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacy
K.B. Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research
India
Biography
Dr. Gaurang Shah joined KBIPER right from its genesis in August 1995 and currently is the Principal and Dean of the institute. Dr. Shah has a vast academic experience spread over 25 years. Along with the teaching learning and adminsitrative insight, he has a sharp vision in reseach. He has guided 54 ost graduate students and 8 Ph.D students in their work. He has done more than 50 acute, subacute toxicity, dermal and ocular industrial studies of drug formulations for national and international regulatory submissions. He has conducted 12 industry sponsored pharmacodynamic studies of drug formulations in the area of CNS, Cardiovascular, hematological and respiratory diseases . He has taken special trainings in animal handling in bioresearch at IISc, Bangalore, and has also been trained on good clinical practices and ethics in clinical and animal research. He has been the member of board of studies at various universities. He is also a wonderful orator and has been a notable invited speaker at various conferences and workshops.
Research Interest
Major interest areas are evaluation of drugs in the area of Cancer, Respiratory, Cardiovascular, Metabolic , Inflammatory, nephrological and neurological disorders. Recently studying the beneficial effects of probiotics in all of the above disorders.
Publications
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Soni KR, Mansuri MM, Bhatt SV, Deshpande SS, Shah GB. Association Of Lipid Levels And Insulin Resistance: Novel Approach In Dyslipidemia. Int J Pharm Res Dev. 2014;6(3):130-7.
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Patel VJ, Joharapurkar AA, Shah GB, Jain MR. Effect of GLP-1 Based Therapies on Diabetic Dyslipidemia. Curr Diabetes Rev. 2014 Jul 6;10(4):238-50.
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Barot B, Parejiya P, Dharmik M, Pragna S, Gaurang S. Physicochemical and structural characterization of iron-sucrose formulations: a comparative study. Pharm Dev Technol. 2014;9(5):513-20.
