Brijesh Sukumaran
Assistant Professor
Biological Sciences
Narsee Monjee Institute of Management and Higher Studies
India
Biography
Dr. Brijesh has been working with School of Science from June 2011. Previously, he has worked at the Foundation for Medical Research (FMR), Mumbai, as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. His responsibilities were to format initiatives and design processes towards down-streaming the potential of the guava leaf extract as an anti-diarrhoeal into a standardized product. Currently, Dr. Brijesh is involved with the research projects in the following areas: 1. Evaluation of medicinal plants for anti-rheumatic, anti-depressant and anxiolytic activities. 2. Evaluation of novel nano-structured non-ionic surfactant based vesicles (niosomes) as potential drug delivery systems for combination therapy. He has published many peer-review papers.
Research Interest
Microbiology, Pharmacology
Publications
-
Pandit K, Mishra R, Brijesh S, Bhagwat A, Bhatt P. Lipid lowering activity of Feronia limonia leaf in triton WR-1339 (tyloxapol) induced hyperlipidemic rats. Int J Pharm Pharm Sci. 2014;6(8):156-8.
-
Birdi TJ, Brijesh S, Daswani PG. Bactericidal effect of selected antidiarrhoeal medicinal plants on intracellular heat-stable enterotoxin-producing Escherichia coli. Indian journal of pharmaceutical sciences. 2014 May;76(3):229.
-
Mishra R, Pandit K, Bhagwat AM, Brijesh S. Antihyperlipidemic activity of alcoholic extracts of Trichosanthes anguina in Triton WR 1339 induced hyperlipidemic rats. International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research. 2014 Oct 1;5(10):4269.
