Harish Shashikant Kundaikar
Assistant Professor
Pharmacy
Narsee Monjee Institute of Management and Higher Studies
India
Biography
Dr. Harish Shashikant Kundaikar has 4.1 years of experience in both industry and academically. He has worked as Production Chemist with experience in large-scale Pharma Manufacturing in Tablet Production. Alongside he also has experience in Tablet Packing, and Liquid Manufacturing and Packing. He has about 3 years of academic experience and has been approved as Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Chemistry by University of Mumbai and Assistant Professor (Ad Hoc) by SNDT University. He has been involved in teaching the subjects of Pharmaceutical/Medicinal/Organic/Inorganic Chemistry and has a Best Teacher Award to his credit during this teaching career. His research experience stems from his work in design, synthesis and evaluation of NCEs as therapeutics for Alzheimer’s disease and antifungal targets, and association with DAE-BRNS project on 18F fluorinated PET radioligands as diagnostics for Alzheimer’s disease. He has also been involved in several other studies targeting HIV, Epilepsy and Cancer, as well as insilico studies on β-cyclodextrins and polymers used in formulations. He has authored 9 publications.
Research Interest
Drug delivery, drug discovery, methodolgy development, green chemistry
Publications
-
Kundaikar HS, Sancheti JS, Jain PD, Degani MS, Sathaye S. Docking studies and pharmacological evaluation of antiepileptic activity of phytoconstituents. Medicinal Chemistry Research. 2015 Aug 1;24(8):3296-304.
-
Kundaikar HS, Degani MS. Insights into the Interaction Mechanism of Ligands with Aβ42 Based on Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Mechanics: Implications of Role of Common Binding Site in Drug Design for Alzheimer's Disease. Chemical biology & drug design. 2015 Oct 1;86(4):805-12.
-
Bulani VD, Kothavade PS, Kundaikar HS, Gawali NB, Chowdhury AA, Degani MS, Juvekar AR. Inclusion complex of ellagic acid with β-cyclodextrin: Characterization and in vitro anti-inflammatory evaluation. Journal of Molecular Structure. 2016 Feb 5;1105:308-15.
